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Mental Health Pilot Scheme gets off to a good start

21 September 2009

A Government led pilot scheme to help keep people with mental health conditions in work has indicated that 90 percent of those with fluctuating mental health conditions have been helped to retain their jobs.

One of the people on the trial stated that they “never felt completely isolated from work” they kept her and her employer in touch.

Further measures planned include:
• A new network of dedicated mental health experts across Jobcentre Plus will work together with colleagues in the health system to coordinate support for people who have mental health conditions.
• A consultation on Right to Control, which will give disabled people, including those with mental health problems, greater choice and control over how public money is spent to meet their individual needs and ambitions.
• Doubling the Access to Work fund, from £69m to £138m over the next five years - providing practical advice and financial support to disabled people and their employers to help them overcome work-related obstacles resulting from disability.

For more - http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_180023