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Supporting carers in the workplace

Posted by: Nick Lodge, Posted on: 11 June 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service

To mark Carers Week, Nick Lodge uses his experience as HMRC Carers' Champion to show how departments can support carers in the workplace - an initiative backed by Head of the Civil Service Sir Jeremy Heywood.

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Shared parental leave: more options for parents

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 7 April 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Our Civil Service
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Shared Parental Leave campaign poster At the beginning of the year I shared my views on the immediate priorities for the Civil Service. One of those was to increase opportunities...

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Workplace health: What is it? Why does it matter? And what can we do to improve it?

Posted by: Una O'Brien and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 20 March 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Smarter working
Venn diagram on prevention, promotion and rehabilitation

...on Health and Wellbeing. The Group is chaired by Civil Service Employee Policy, who are working to produce a health and wellbeing strategy for the Civil Service, to help ensure...

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Supporting staff to be happy and healthier

Posted by: Sue Owen, DCMS Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service LGB&TI Champion and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 13 March 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
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...to develop the services it offers our Civil Service community. I met many more enthusiastic people at the charity’s Volunteer Awards, which saw a fantastic group of people publicly lauded...

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What are we doing to support people in the Civil Service affected by mental health problems?

Posted by: Una O'Brien, Posted on: 8 December 2014 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders

...absence and largest single cause of disability in the UK. For the Civil Service, this means that departments lose between 0.2 and 2.5 days for each member of staff per...

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