A Health, Work and Well-being Co-ordinator is now in place in each of the English regions as well as in Scotland and Wales. Their role is to facilitate an integrated approach to health and employment at a local level. The aim of the co-ordinator network is to reduce the overall incidence of work related ill-health and to promote best practice and innovation on health, employment and skills.
Focusing on smaller businesses, the co-ordinators will work to raise awareness of the many benefits of good work to good health (and vice versa) and will cement a stronger health and employment network in each locality.
The co-ordinators will also develop and encourage partnerships between stakeholders with a keen interest in this agenda such as Regional Development Agencies (RDA), Employer Coalitions, Business Link, the Confederation of British Industry and the Trade Union Congress and relevant equivalents in Scotland and Wales.
The co-ordinator will also administer the Health, Work and Well-being Challenge Fund for small businesses to establish health and well-being initiatives and to help local partnerships kick-start health and work activity. More details on the Challenge Fund are available on this website.
To get in touch with your Health Work and Well-being Co-ordinator please see the below contact details: