Windsor, UK - 4th June 2020 - MyPlus CEO and Founder Helen Cooke has been appointed a Commissioner for the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ)’s new Disability Commission. Chaired by Lord Shinkwin, the Disability Commission will focus on ensuring the government delivers on disability as part of its levelling up agenda.
Lord Shinkwin will be joined by eleven Commissioners made up of business leaders from EY, Clifford Chance and Deloitte, a former Minister for disabled people, Baroness Tanni GreyThompson DBE and various disability experts.
“The Disability Commission has been set up to secure a step change in the opportunities available to disabled people, especially in employment, to live their lives fully and as they want to. Its message is simple – ‘Levelling up: time to get it done’.” Lord Shinkwin.
In their 2019 General Election Manifesto, the Conservative Party outlined plans to publish a National Disability Strategy. It aims to look at “ways to improve the benefits system, opportunities and access for disabled people in terms of housing, education, transport and jobs” and include existing commitments to “increase SEND funding and support pupils, students and adults to get careers advice, internships, and transition into work” as well as reducing the disability employment gap.
The aim of the Disability Commission is to help the Government chart a robust, radical and pragmatic way forward. Drawing on the insights, expertise and lived experience of its members, it will develop practical recommendations to underpin a winning action plan that delivers for disabled people, businesses and the economy. Its message is simple – ‘Leveling up: time to get it done’.
Helen Cooke is recognised nationally as a leading expert in disability and graduate recruitment. Helen works with organisations and institutions to provide them with the expertise to be disability confident in their strategy, their processes and their engagement. The uniqueness of Helen’s approach comes from her expertise in HR and graduate recruitment combined with her first-hand experience of disability; Helen is a wheelchair user as a result of a childhood spinal injury. She started her career on the M&S graduate management programme before moving to Mars where she spent 10 years, mostly in HR and Resourcing, before setting up her business, MyPlus.
About MyPlus
Our vision is to ensure that having a disability or long-term health condition doesn't prevent anyone from having the career they want to have. We want disabled individuals to realise their career ambitions and employers to benefit from the unique talents and strengths that disabled individuals can, and do, bring to an organisation. MyPlus provides progressive employers and disabled students with the confidence, insight and support they need to realise new possibilities
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