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Supporting employers with the health, resilience and wellness of their workforce.
Creating positive workplaces and working practices that promote and support wellbeing is good for our staff and for our organisations.
When our staff experience good mental and physical health at work they are able to develop their potential, be productive and creative, build positive relationships with colleagues and customers, cope better with stressful situations and make more meaningful contributions.
We have information and resources to help local government employers to manage and improve their employees’ wellbeing at work.
Additional resource
In this section:
Flexible working and work-life balance
Exploring different ways to adopt flexible working to support organisational aims and employee wellbeing and retention.
Financial wellbeing
Money worries affect staff at different stages of their lives and can affect their performance at work. We have resources for employers to support staff.
Mental health
Helping employers to promote and support good mental health at work.
Sickness management
When dealing with the management of sickness absence and ill health, councils have to balance the needs of the individual with the needs of the organisation.
Menopause
The LGA menopause guide discusses what councils can do to be ‘menopause friendly’ employers.
Wellbeing and managing musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions
We are working with NHS colleagues to offer a wellbeing approach to managing chronic joint pain.
Resilience
Promoting emotional resilience and wellbeing improves the health of an organisation as well as that of its employees.
Supporting employees on domestic abuse
We have resources for local authorities to support those employees who they know, or fear, may be experiencing domestic abuse.
COVID-19 employee wellbeing
Resources to support staff in different parts of the organisation during COVID-19.
Managing and supporting employees with terminal Illness
Marie Curie and the What Works Centre for Wellbeing share their research and resources to help employers understand how to effectively support members of their staff who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness.