Did you know that only 10% to 20% of people with severe mental health problems are in employment? No, neither did I untill I was riffling around in some new resources from SCIE and the Centre for Mental Health this morning.

As it's world mental health day today, SCIE has produced a rather nifty summary of all the evidence on how social care managers can deal help people deal with mental health problems in the workplace.

Here's Pete Fleischmann, head of participation at SCIE, explaining what mangers can do to combat mental health unemployment and better support their staff.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2011/10/breaking-down-mental-health-ba.html

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Posted 10 Oct 2011 11:28 AM by The Social Work Blog | Report Abuse

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