Guidance and regulation

Guidance about signing up for the Disability Confident scheme, and how it can help your business.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 25 November 2019

These easy read guides explain what Access to Work is and how you can apply for it.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 7 March 2023

Your rights as a passenger when travelling by sea and inland waterway.

• From: Department for Transport
• Updated: 22 February 2022

A practical guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 9 April 2024

Guidance about how to renew your Disability Confident status.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 24 May 2021

Promotional material that can used by Disability Confident employers to promote the scheme.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 21 December 2023

You can raise an issue about the service you get from a Disability Confident employer.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 14 October 2021

Guidance for health and social care professionals about the legal duty to make reasonable adjustments for people with learning disabilities.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 15 September 2020

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) staff guide about the Access to Work scheme.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 27 February 2024

Guidance to help health professionals, social care staff and family members to help someone with learning disabilities to be screened for cancer.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 8 May 2016

How to make a change to your registration details if you are a Disability Confident employer.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Updated: 15 June 2021

BSL version of the British Sign Language Act 2022 and explanatory notes.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions and 2 others
• Updated: 22 March 2022

Guidance on providing support and reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities who have difficulty swallowing (dysphagia).

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 8 May 2016

A tool to assess the quality of annual health checks for people with learning disabilities.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 29 September 2017

A report which details what the government is doing to promote and facilitate the use of British Sign Language (BSL) in its communications with the public.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions and 1 others
• Updated: 31 July 2023

Guidance to help health and social care professionals and family members to support people with learning disabilities who have substance misuse problems.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 8 May 2016

Disability and Access Ambassadors help to ensure businesses are doing all they can to support their disabled customers.

• From: Disability Unit
• Updated: 11 April 2024

Guidance to help health and social care professionals and family members support people with learning disabilities to lose weight.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 11 September 2020

Information on providing postural care support and reasonable adjustments to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities.

• From: Closed organisation: Public Health England
• Updated: 8 May 2018

Support for health and social care professionals who work with people with learning disabilities.

• From: UK Health Security Agency
• Updated: 25 September 2018