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Travel matters: from NHS to independent sector
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, REYNOLDS Sally, COBBETT Peter
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 10(4), November 2006, pp.29-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Travel Matters, based in Redhill, Surrey, is an independent travel agency offering a wide choice of travel and holidays at competitive prices. Ten years ago it was one of a number of employment projects run by an NHS trust to provide employment, training and development opportunities for people who had experienced mental health problems. The authors describe the journey towards independence.
Beyond the gate: securing employment for offenders with mental health problems
- Authors:
- LOCKETT Helen, GROVE Bob
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
For people with a history of offending, one of the most effective ways of preventing reoffending and improving their chances of leading a better life is likely to be finding and keeping a job. However, only a small proportion of prisoners in England have jobs to go to on release and employment support offered in the criminal justice system is too often denied to offenders with mental health problems. This briefing paper considers how to support people with mental health problems and offending histories into mainstream employment. Over the last 18 months, Centre for Mental Health has visited prisons, probation services and other sites across the country to find examples of where offenders with mental health problems are being supported into paid work. The evidence from this has been used to produce a set of five key elements of effective practice. These are: employers should play an instrumental role in creating and developing opportunities; recruitment needs to be pragmatic, on the basis of attitude and ‘character’ rather than qualifications or health status; support should be offered to employees and their managers for as long as they need it; opportunities for ‘pre-employment’ and ‘in work’ skills development should be linked to realistic employment opportunities; and criminal justice and other statutory agencies should facilitate effective pathways and access to real work and appropriate skills development while offenders are in the criminal justice system.
Mental health and employment: key opportunities to put policy into practice
- Authors:
- BACON Jenni, GROVE Bob, LOCKETT Helen
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Following the publication of much new policy in December 2009, this paper aims to make sense of what all the policy means in practice and picks out the key commitments and opportunities. It describes how healthy workplaces are key to the Government’s public health approach which runs through both Working our Way to Better Health and New Horizons. The report outlines the importance of keeping people in work, and noted that preventing people from falling out of work because of mental health problems depends on intervening quickly when things go wrong, for example when people don’t return to work after sickness absence as expected. Ensuring that relationships between employer and employee don’t break down is crucial. A section on overcoming individual barriers to employment states that running through all the new policy is a focus on coordinated, individualised support for people wishing to gain employment or get back to work. This reports emphasises that employment should be at the heart of the ‘recovery vision’ for mental health services generally. The paper concludes that there have been more developments in mental health and employment policy in recent months than at any time in the last decade. There may be more to come.