![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/businesses-must-hire-more-people-with-learning-disabilities/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/0_Therapist-working-with-a-teenage-girl-with-learning-difficulties-to-master-logical-testsjpgt.jpg&description=Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK says every leadership team in every corporate and government board needs somebody with learning disabilities because they bring the common sense that is sometimes lostBusinesses should employ more people with learning disabilities, Anna Morell writes Head in hands at reading that NHS Digital saw fit to use the term "mental retardation" in relation to people with learning disabilities last week. Ciara Lawrence who works at Mencap said it 'describes people like me as a second-class citizen, with no value to society. It's insulting, and truly shocks me.' During the pandemic, I sat round a virtual government table with Ciara and a host of Cabinet Office communications leads, as they sought to get messaging out about Covid to Disabled people. All these high-flying kids from The Thick Of It, in the thick of it, with their fast, choppy language, full of acronyms, and business buzzwords, and there was Ciara, who very calmly and politely asked them to rephrase what they were saying so she could understand what they meant. Some of the Cabinet Office's communication was straight out of The Thick Of It ( BBC/Des Willie) And right then and there, I realised that every corporate and government board in the country needs a Ciara. Because she has an absolute gift for making people cut the crap and talk clear sense. I watched these jaw-jaw, go-go-go government people take a beat, bewildered for a second, and then think about having to slow right down, actually think about what they were saying, and, you know, being a comms meeting, actually communicate. It was wonderful. I'm deadly serious. Every company, every council, and every leadership team needs somebody with learning disabilities employed at a high level. They are an absolute asset. Less than a quarter of people with learning disabilities are employed. Whereas three-quarters of non-Disabled people have jobs. It's ridiculous. Those with learning disabilities are an asset to the team not a){kind=link}
Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK says every leadership team in every corporate and government board needs somebody with learning disabilities because they bring the common sense that is sometimes lost
Head in hands at reading that NHS Digital saw fit to use the term “mental retardation” in relation to people with learning disabilities last week.
Ciara Lawrence who works at Mencap said it “describes people like me as a second-class citizen, with no value to society. It’s insulting, and truly shocks me.”
During the pandemic, I sat round a virtual government table with Ciara and a host of Cabinet Office communications leads, as they sought to get messaging out about Covid to Disabled people.
All these high-flying kids from The Thick Of It, in the thick of it, with their fast, choppy language, full of acronyms, and business buzzwords, and there was Ciara, who very calmly and politely asked them to rephrase what they were saying so she could understand what they meant.