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Survive and Thrive: Maximising opportunities in the health and social care sector

Tuesday 26th June 2012, 8:45am - 4:30pm

Social Enterprises - are you ready for the challenge?

LHS_Flyer_info(1).jpg The NHS is changing rapidly and the challenge for us all operating in this new environment is how to adapt, how to survive, and most important of all, how to thrive.

But it’s not that easy. For social enterprises and third sector organisations in particular, it can seem like an uphill struggle trying to find the right support, advice and services to compete with profit-driven private sector competitors.

This one-day event has been specifically designed to offer practical, commercially-focused support and services to social enterprises so that they can build better businesses today.

New Equality Laws come in from October

The Equality Bill, which passed through parliament last Tuesday, will impact on all of us in some way – as individuals, employers, consumers of public services, and bidders for public sector contracts. The Bill is wide-ranging but here are some highlights that Social Firms may be particularly interested in.

From October employers will not be able to ask job applicants about their mental health, or any other details of their medical history, before an interview. This will close a loop that currently allows employers to reject someone on health grounds without even giving them an opportunity to show what they can do.

Is work good for your health and well-being

Author:

Gordon Waddell & A. Kim Burton

2006

Free

Other

Is Work Good For Your Health & Well-Being? (G. Waddell & A. K. Burton, on behalf of DWP, DoH, HSE) While we in the Social Firm sector have always believed that working is good for your health and well-being, here we have the evidence! This is a 'review of reviews', drawn together by Gordon Waddell and A. Kim Burton, and while there are certain provisos attached to this overall conclusion (e.g. depends on teh quality of the job etc.), and some statistical/evidential gaps, it gives everybody a good basis on which to move forward. As far as Social Firms UK is concerned, our development of the Values-Based Checklist links strategically to the outcomes of this research review. As one of the research gaps is around evidencing health gain on re-entry to employment we are keener than every to try and move this bit of work forward.

Please quote the reference number below when ordering or if you have any questions about this resource.

Reference:

R2076

Is Work Good For Your Health & Well-being Exec Summary.pdf

Is work good for your health and well being Full Report.pdf

Wednesday 14th October 2009, 4:50pm | by Anonymous

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