KPMG is presented a Disability-smart award as best business to business service provider
London, UK – Today KPMG were presented their Disability-smart award for being best business to business service provider. The award was presented to Tony Cates, Head of Audit and Chair of WorkAbility Steering Group at KPMG, by Susan Scott-Parker, Founder and Chief Executive of Business Disability Forum. Mike Mason-Williams, Account Director at KPMG, and Angela Gardner, Senior Manager of Diversity & Inclusion at KPMG, were also present. The Disability-smart awards acknowledge organisations that demonstrate their use of best practice on disability across all areas of their business from recruitment and facilities to products and services.
KPMG scored best in their sector and achieved Silver standard on the Disability Standard, an online management tool provided by Business Disability Forum that scores a company’s internal and external activity affecting people with disabilities. With strong support from senior management KPMG have been able to implement real change within their organisation. KPMG instigated a WorkAbility Steering Group that provides strategic leadership on disability matters within the firm, lead by Tony Cates. KPMG offer eldercare services as the company noticed that many of their employees were also taking care of elder relatives outside of work. These are just two of the many steps KMPG has put into place to help recruit and retain the best possible workforce.
Brendan Roach, Senior Disability Consultant and Information & Advice Manager said:
"Disability-smart organisations understand how disability affects every aspect of the business, including all of its stakeholders. KPMG has been awarded best business to business service provider because they truly impressed us with their desire to create an accessible experience for disabled clients and anyone who comes into contact with the organisation.
“KPMG’s adoption of the principles of the Public Sector Equality Duty is a remarkable example of a private sector organisation going far beyond what they are required to do by law and demonstrates a clear commitment to providing a service that meets the needs of disabled clients.”
Tony Cates, KPMG Head of Audit and Chair of WorkAbility Steering Group, said:
“I believe passionately that we must recognise and value the differences that all individuals offer both within KPMG and in our client organisations. The Public Sector, through its Public Sector Equality Duty, has developed an excellent, pragmatic framework to make this a more visible, conscious part of everyday working practice. KPMG has decided to adopt and fully integrate the spirit of the Public Sector Equality Duty so that it will cover our engagement with all of our clients, other external organisations and the treatment of our people.
“We’re delighted to be given recognition from the Business Disability Forum for this important development in our approach as a ‘disability smart’ organisation.”
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Notes to editors
1. For more information on the other award winners please visit: http://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/about-us/news/The-2013-Disability-Standard-award-winners
2. Business Disability Forum is a not-for-profit business consortium that represents some 400 organisations that employ 20% of the UK workforce. Formerly called the Employers’ Forum on Disability, the company has more than twenty years’ experience of working with public and private sector employers and service providers. For more information about the Forum please visit: http://businessdisabilityforum.org.uk/about-us
3. For further information on the Disability Standard and details of the other award categories and their winners please visit www.disabilitystandard.com
4. KPMG is one of the largest professional services companies in the world and one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers who are also members of Business Disability Forum. For more information on KPMG please visit: www.kpmg.co.uk
For media enquiries please contact Business Disability Forum at media@businessdisabilityforum.org.uk.
