One man in five dies before the age of 65.
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In the UK, one man in five dies before he reaches 65. Together, we can change that.

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Inclusive workplaces for all men

Call for evidence: Supporting inclusive workplaces for everyone – Health Related Pathways to Work

Homeless Link and Win/Win Alliance are co-leading a Health and Wellbeing Alliance project involving eight other Alliance members (including the Men's Health Forum) as well as the Employment Related services Association (ERSA), and Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM). The partnership is supporting the Health and Work Unit to work towards inclusive workplaces for everyone. Funded by Public Health England (PHE), the project will produce resources to help employers to embed good practice approaches supporting disabled people, people with long term health conditions and/or people from protected characteristic groups towards, into and to stay in work.

Central to this work is developing an Employer Directory to highlight ‘national and local pathways to work’. This electronic Directory of employment support programmes will sit alongside a Pathways to Work toolkit for public sector employers and the voluntary and community sector.

These resources will help employers work with and support disabled people, people with long term health conditions and disabilities and people with  protected characteristics as defined by the Equalities Act 2010: age; disability; gender reassignment; marriage and civil partnership; pregnancy and maternity; race; religion or belief; sex; sexual orientation. The work will also seek to address the needs of homeless people, those with experience of poor mental health, people in contact with the criminal justice system and people with experience of substance misuse.

As part of this project we are issuing a Call for Evidence for examples of national and local employment support initiatives and “success stories” helping people towards, into and to stay in work. The good practice and success stories will be brought together as a Directory that will be shared with employers.

This project will include a toolkit which supports employers to implement a psychologically informed approach - a framework for working with people who have experienced repeated adverse life events. We are particularly interested in organisations which use reflective practice and/or an understanding of the impact trauma can have on a person’s emotions and behaviour.

How to respond

Please share any examples of work being undertaken currently or previously, using this template (FINAL Pathways - PHE Inclusive Workplaces Call for Evidence.docx, 417KB). These examples will be used to identify and highlight effective practice and inform employers about employment support programmes.

If you are engaged in multiple projects supporting any of these groups, please complete a separate template for each activity. If the information for any of the sections is not available, please leave them blank.

Please return any examples to policy@ersa.org.uk.

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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