Free Guide: Access to Work 

Access to Work: A Practical Guide for Managers & HR

Explains how the Access to Work scheme works in practice, including responsibilities, assessments, funding, and reimbursement.

Practical Workplace Guides

These workplace guides focus on practical situations that arise when supporting neurodivergent staff.

In many workplaces, challenges do not present themselves clearly. A member of staff may be struggling with workload, communication, or the working environment, but the underlying cause is not always obvious, and managers may be unsure how to respond.

Each guide focuses on a specific type of situation and looks at how these tend to play out in practice. They highlight patterns, common points of friction, and different ways of responding, rather than a single correct approach.

The guides include:

Supporting Neurodivergent Employees
A Practical Workplace Guide for Managers

This guide focuses on situations where a member of staff is struggling at work and the underlying issue is not immediately clear. It explores different ways managers may respond in situations where the underlying issue is not immediately clear, helping them navigate uncertainty, have clearer conversations, and support different working styles without requiring employees to disclose a diagnosis.

Reasonable Adjustments
A Practical Guide for Employers and Managers

This guide looks at how reasonable adjustments work in practice, particularly where applying formal guidance is not always straightforward, including employer responsibilities under the Equality Act 2010, and focuses on situations where applying that guidance is not always straightforward.

Neurodiversity Language Guide
Communicating Inclusively at Work

This guide explains key terminology, highlights common misunderstandings, and outlines practical ways organisations can communicate more clearly and consistently when discussing neurodiversity at work.

These guides complement formal guidance such as ACAS by focusing on how situations are approached in practice, particularly where things are not straightforward.

Preview sections are available so organisations can review the approach before purchasing.

Why Choose Our Guides?

These workplace guides are designed around real working environments, particularly where situations are unclear or do not follow a simple pattern.

They are designed to be:

• Written in clear, plain English

• Shaped by lived experience alongside practical workplace insight

• Focused on real workplace situations where formal guidance alone is not always enough

• Usable without specialist training

• Relevant across different types of work, including offices, frontline roles, trades and services

• They are intended as practical starting points, not complete solutions.

They complement formal guidance such as ACAS by focusing on how situations are approached in practice, not just what the guidance says.

Purchasing a guide also helps fund our free ADHD peer groups and wider community projects.