build a Mental Health training programme for your workplace

How to build a Mental Health training programme for your workplace

Mental health problems affect one in six workers in the UK every year according to charity Mind, and the cost to the UK economy is somewhere between £74 billion and £99 billion a year. So, it comes as no surprise that increasing numbers of employers are looking at their role in staff wellbeing and introducing mental health training. read article

Mental Health - Your duty of care as an employer

Mental Health – Your duty of care as an employer

One of your biggest responsibilities as an employer within a business is to take care of the welfare of your staff. This means taking care of employees with pre-existing health issues and disabilities as well as doing what you can to prevent new ones. If you don’t, you’ll soon face the consequences: your staff will be unhappy, unmotivated and disloyal to the business, resulting in nothing less than low staff retention rates and suffering productivity levels. read article