Transparent reporting on disability inclusion is fundamental to driving progress: what gets measured gets managed – what gets published gets prioritised. When businesses fail to collect and publish disability data, they signal that disability inclusion doesn’t matter. This translates to a significant missed opportunity for businesses to access diverse perspectives and untapped markets that drive innovation and create competitive advantage.
The System Barrier
Disability inclusion is strikingly missing from standardised ESG frameworks and corporate reporting practices. Just 22% of Valuable 500 companies publicly disclose workforce representation—far below reporting rates for gender and ethnicity—and the lack of common reporting criteria makes meaningful comparison between organisations nearly impossible.
This data gap obscures the business case for inclusion, prevents effective benchmarking, and allows systemic barriers to persist unchallenged. Without transparent measurement and reporting, organisations cannot track progress, identify successful strategies, or be held accountable for creating genuinely inclusive workplaces and products.
Synchronised Collective Action
When companies measure and report on disability inclusion using consistent metrics, it transforms both internal priorities and external expectations. Publishing disability data drives leadership focus, directs resources, and creates a foundation for authentic inclusion.
Valuable 500 partners and companies are taking Synchronised Collective Action by adopting and reporting against our five Disability Inclusion KPIs. Our Reporting Accelerator Series supports the adoption of these KPIs by providing expertise and practical tools to improve both performance and disclosure. As more organisations adopt these consistent metrics, reporting transforms from a compliance exercise into a catalyst for meaningful change. This collective approach enables businesses to break through the disability data gap, create accountability frameworks, and drive genuine progress on disability inclusion.
