The revised strategy, launched last week, aims to focus on ‘ability not disability’ and to provide an initial point of contact for businesses.
peaking at a breakfast presentation coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Week, JEND vice-chairman Sue May explained that since the organisation was set up in 1998 the employment market had changed.
n terms of mental health, stress-related illness was on the increase.
It was difficult for managers to know how to deal with it, she said, and in particular whether it was appropriate to contact health professionals such as the employee’s general practitioner.
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