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The South West Development Centre is working across a wide range of organisations to support initiatives on retention and future employment of people who have mental health problems or have learning disabilities.

With the publication of four major reports about mental health and employment we are aiming to support easy navigation to a wide range of resources to help you deliver services in your locality. 
     New Horizons
     Realising Ambitions
     Work, Recovery & Inclusion
    Working Our Way to Better Mental Health

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Finding a job

This section aims to help those people who are looking for a job or, if you are an employer, to help you in the recruitment process.

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Keeping a job

This section looks at the steps to take to look after yourself; get a good work/life balance and make  adjustments to assist in keeping a job, and some of the initiatives around job retention.

Healthy workplaces

What is a healthy workplace? and how can you create one?

Business in the Community, as part of the Dame Carol Black review, have a wide range of policies that are already in place as examples of good practice.  These are available here.

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Employers

The Shift Review Panel hosts a wide-range of resources to help on many aspects of promoting good employment practices.

The Time to Challenge campaign also has many resources to support this work.

Public service employers are joining the Link Up Link In  campaign to employ more disabled people.

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