Health and wellbeing

Reflections on Migraine Awareness Week

Posted by: Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, Posted on: 1 October 2019 - Categories: A great place to work, Health & Wellbeing

Disability Champion Philip Rutnam tells us what he learned during Migraine Awareness Week and introduces Linda, who writes about her experience of living with migraines.

Wellbeing – it's never too late to start

Posted by: Louella Ibekwe, Posted on: 26 September 2019 - Categories: A great place to work, Health & Wellbeing

The award-winning Team Chaffinch share some fun and easy ways to take care of your wellbeing, from the new and improved A-Z to Better Wellbeing toolkit.

Tell us what you did in Active Wellbeing Week

Posted by: Jonathan Jones, Posted on: 12 July 2019 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Health & Wellbeing

Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Champion Jonathan Jones requests your feedback on what worked well for you in Active Wellbeing Week.

The human brain in the modern world

Posted by: Charlotte Kume-Holland, Posted on: 3 July 2019 - Categories: A great place to work, Health & Wellbeing

Civil servant Charlotte Kume-Holland offers a personal reflection on how we can understand our own mental health and ways we can take care of it.

Six lessons I've learnt through Team Chaffinch and the Junior Leaders Academy

Posted by: Civil Service Blog Team and Gail Peck, Posted on: 26 June 2019 - Categories: A Brilliant Civil Service, Health & Wellbeing

After two years promoting health and wellbeing in the Civil Service through Team Chaffinch, its outgoing leader, Gail Peck, sets out the six most important things she's learnt.

Personal Disability Stories: 12 – Rosie’s story

Posted by: Sir Philip Rutnam, Home Office Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service Disability Champion, Posted on: 25 June 2019 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Diversity and inclusion, Health & Wellbeing

Philip Rutnam introduces Rosie's account of living and working with the relatively common but little-known condition of Sensory Processing - or High - Sensitivity.

Talking about loneliness

Posted by: The Tackling Loneliness Strategy Team, Posted on: 13 June 2019 - Categories: Health & Wellbeing

A new cross-government campaign - launching on 17 June, to coincide with Loneliness Awareness Week - will encourage people to talk about loneliness. The team behind it introduce two colleagues who speak about their own experience.

Becoming ‘carer confident’ in the Civil Service

Posted by: Rupert McNeil, Government Chief People Officer, Posted on: 12 June 2019 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Diversity and inclusion, Health & Wellbeing

In Carers Week, Government Chief People Officer Rupert McNeil writes that around half of all civil servants now work in organisations recognised under the Carer Confident scheme.