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After hours: Focus: Mental health

This is a past event

12th June 2008, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, London

Did you know that one in six of your employees could be experiencing mental ill-health at any one time?

Are you aware of the bigger picture when it comes to your employees and their mental well-being?

Each Afterhours event brings EFD members together in an informal environment to share knowledge and experience on a topical theme. The events are free to attend and include guest speakers - the UK's leading disability experts - who will create debate and challenge perceptions of disability.Afterhours will take you out of the office environment to inspire fresh thinking and new ideas on disability.

Each event takes place at the Museum of Garden History, an unusual venue, just across the river from Westminster. Refreshments will be available throughout the evening and we create a setting to make it easy for you to network with other EFD members and share best practice.

Latest research by EFD, in partnership with Great Place to Work, shows that many line managers are unsure of what to do when dealing with mental ill-health among colleagues.

This is an opportunity for you to discuss the findings of this research, presented here for the first time, and debate the effect mental ill-health may have on every area of your organisation.

With our expert panel, you will have the chance to debate why workplace mental health is hard to address and consider how much responsibility should be placed on an employer to promote mental well-being.

Confirmed speakers

  • Dame Carol Black, Health Work Wellbeing
  • Paul Farmer, Chief Executive, Mind
  • Dr Bob Grove, Director of Employment Programmes, The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
  • Neil Lowther, National Social Inclusion Programme
  • Dr Liz Miller, Practicing GP and Mind Champion of the Year 2008 
  • Susan Scott Parker, CEO, Employers' Forum on Disability
  • Stephen Duckworth, CEO, Disability Matters will chair the panel

Who should attend?

Anyone with an interest in mental ill health in the workplace. These events are for EFD members only. 

"Employers' Forum on Disability has such a rich diversity of organisations present here and the interesting thing is that all the problems with disability best practice are universal and diverse. All these organisations are fundamentally dealing with the same thing and that is what I find so energising about it. People have been speaking passionately tonight. The will is there!"

Paul Zickel, chair of the Civil Service Disability Network. Attendee at EFD Afterhours disabled staff networks event.