LONDON—The Bank of England, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC UK, RBS, Monex, Standard Chartered and Bank Hapoalim of Israel have all announced their membership in The Valuable 500 – a worldwide call to action launched earlier this year that is seeking to place disability inclusion at the top of business agendas.
organizations will join others already signed up to the initiative, including Barclays, Danske Bank and Citibanamex of Mexico, placing the banking sector at the “front of the fight for inclusion,” The Global Recruiter.
The campaign, launched at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Summit in Davos in January, will hold global business leaders accountable for disability inclusion in their businesses by ensuring it is discussed at leadership level and placed on their board agendas.
‘Walk the Talk’
“The banking sector has been increasingly recognized for its efforts to improve inclusion of disabled people in the workplace in recent years: in 2017, for example, The Business Disability Forum awarded RBS its Workplace Adjustments Innovation of the Year’ Award and in 2018 Gold in the Business Disability Forum’s Disability Standard, and Bank Hapoalim of Israel recently announced a social impact program whereby at least one person with a disability must be included in all of its media campaigns,” The Global Recruiter said.
“Similarly, Lloyds Banking Group has been awarded Gold in the Business Disability Forum’s Disability Standard and is recognized for its work to raise awareness of mental health. Since their partnership with Mental Health UK began in January 2017, over £9 million of vital funds has been raised so far through fundraising initiatives such as Walk-the-Talk. However, this is the first time in history that the world’s financial services sector has taken such a significant step towards ending the exclusion of disabled people,” The Global Recruiter explained.