The UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme is designed to encourage employers to recruit, retain, and develop disabled people and those with long-term health conditions. The scheme recognises employers who demonstrate a strong and proactive commitment to inclusion for people with disabilities. There are three tiers to the Disability Confident scheme, disability confident committed, disability confident employer and the highest level disability confident leader.
Disability Confident at London Met
London Metropolitan was confirmed as a Disability Confident Leader in October 2025, the highest level in the scheme and was one of only 14 higher education institutions nationally holding this prestigious award.
Institutional Action Plan
London Met created a Disability Confident Action Plan 2025-2030 to ensure we keep making progress towards creating an inclusive workplace for people with disabilities. This includes 12 actions in the following areas:
- Managing reasonable adjustment cases.
- Increasing managers’ capabilities
- Reviewing our training provision
- Understanding how to better support staff with learning differences
- Engaging with disability awareness in the workplace campaigns
- Improving the website information and guidance
- Creating a contact system for staff seeking information
- Improving our recruitment monitoring data
- Enhancing our procurement processes and documentation
- Reducing the percentage of Unknown disabilities
- Developing institutional leadership on disability
- Increasing the proportion of disabled workers trialing work through MetTemps
Disability Confident Working Group
A working group consisting of colleagues from the CEI, HR, Estates, Planning and the disAbility Networks is overseeing the work to deliver the action plan.
