A series of actions are underway to further reduce sickness absence across the whole of the Civil Service as well as within individual Departments.
Examples of Civil Service wide actions include:
- Establishing a cross departmental network to share best practice across the Civil Service;
- Development of a Board checklist to support challenging discussions on health and wellbeing and attendance management issues at Departmental Board meetings;
- A Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Framework highlighting effective practice and important recent research;
- Action to benchmark against the best practice organisations in the Private sector; and
Widespread adoption of flexible working practices.
Examples of Departmental action
Useful resources
- Health and Wellbeing Framework – Civil Service Capability Group, Cabinet Office [21 pages, PDF]
- Survey of workplace absence and ill health – HSE
- Foresight – Mental Capital and Wellbeing
- Working for a healthier tomorrow
- Improving health and work: changing lives – The Government’s response to Dame carol Black’s review (Working for a healthier tomorrow)
- HSE Stress Management Standards
- HSE Managing sickness absence and return to work
- Whitehall II
- ACAS Model Workplace