Revealed: Recruitment Industry’s Disability Inclusion Champions

The Recruitment Industry Disability Initiative (RIDI) Awards has revealed 2021’s disability inclusion champions.

The RIDI Awards, now in their eighth year, celebrate pioneering employers and recruiters that are safeguarding and progressing opportunities for disabled job seekers through accessible and equitable employment policies and processes.

RIDI is a unique initiative leading change in recruitment by encouraging and supporting recruiters and businesses to remove the barriers faced by the millions of disabled job seekers; particularly at a time when many organisations are recruiting to fill a high number of vacancies.

2021 RIDI AWARDS WINNERS

This year’s RIDI Awards winners and highly commended (by category) are:

Best Inclusive Recruitment Campaign

• Winner: ViacomCBS
• Highly Commended: Millwood Servicing

Disability Confident

• Winner: Network Rail

Disability Specialist

• Winner: C Talent

Getting Started

• Winner: PageGroup

• Highly Commended: Mace Group – Enabled at Mace ERG

Inclusive Recruiter of the Year

• Winner: Civil Service fast Stream and Emerging Talent team

Making A Difference (Private Sector)

• Winner: Balfour Beatty Vinci Systra JV

• Highly Commended: DPD UK

Making A Difference (Public Sector)

• Winner: North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Recruiting Back Better

• Winner: Guidant Global

• Highly Commended: Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Greatest Impact Award

• Winner: North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Click here to check out this year’s RIDI finalists.