Webinar Overview:

Ableism—the discrimination or social prejudice against disabled people—remains deeply embedded across institutions, workplaces, and everyday interactions. Despite the progress made by disability rights movements, many systems continue to marginalise disabled individuals through barriers, stereotypes, and exclusionary practices.

This essential webinar explores what ableism looks like in modern society and how it impacts disabled people across health, education, employment, and social care. Participants will gain insight into how ableist assumptions shape language, policy, and practice—and what can be done to challenge them.

Centred around lived experience, legal frameworks and inclusive design principles, this session will empower professionals to move beyond tokenism and create truly accessible, anti-ableist environments.

Ideal for:

• HR and workplace inclusion leads
• Social care and education professionals
• Equality, diversity and inclusion officers
• Health and mental health practitioners
• Policy makers and commissioners
• Youth workers, community organisers and support services
• Anyone working with or supporting disabled people
  
  

Key Takeaways:

• Defining ableism and recognising its structural, institutional and interpersonal forms
• Understanding the social model of disability and how it differs from the medical model
• Exploring microaggressions, assumptions and language that perpetuate exclusion
• Identifying how systems, policies and environments reinforce ableist norms
• Applying inclusive, anti-ableist approaches in service design and delivery
  
  

Additional Benefits:

• Challenge unconscious bias and shift from ‘awareness’ to meaningful inclusion
• Learn from the lived experiences of disabled professionals and advocates
• Explore legal obligations under the Equality Act 2010—and go beyond them
• Gain practical tools for embedding accessibility in your team, workplace or service
  
  

This webinar is essential for individuals and organisations who are committed to dismantling ableism and ensuring disabled people are not only included—but empowered, valued, and heard.