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Health and
employment is a key priority for the LHC; it launched the London
Works for Better Health programme in 2003 (initially with sponsorship
from the King's Fund, now funded by the London Development Agency)
with two fundamental and ambitious aims:
· To
improve health in London through employment and enterprise
· To promote healthy and sustainable employment practices
This page contains:
Latest
news:
London Works
Programme Manager, Charlotte Hall has led the London Commission's
response to the London Skills and Employment Board Strategy.Headline
points in the response are:
- We should
like to see a greater emphasis on the importance of “good”
jobs and healthy workplaces in the strategy.
- We should
like to see a greater emphasis on supporting people with mental
health conditions into work and in the workplace.
- We want to
share our experiences and future work programme around disabled
people and employment with the Board and work with them
- We should
like to see a greater emphasis on primary care as a key partner
with other agencies in helping patients experiencing ill-health
and/or disability into employment.
- We should
like to see clear references to the Health Inequalities Strategy’s
priorities and actions within the Skills and Employment Strategy
as both strategies and their respective implementation plans develop.
- London Health
Commission would like to work with the Board on the development
of the Strategy’s implementation plan and to support them
in assessing its health impact. You can read the full response
on our web site.
Download
the full response
- 141 (kb) RTF document
Find out more
about the London Skills
and Employment Board
Key
acheivements
- High profile
seminar series run jointly between the LHC and the Work Foundation
entitled "Working for Health and Well-being", bringing
together employers from all sectors, policy-makers and trade unions.
Central to discussions were two questions: "what can employers
do to make work healthy?" and "what can policy-makers
do to support this?"
- Securing
funding from European Social Fund to deliver "Making Health
Work for Business", a series of pilot projects exploring
good practice in health and job retention in small and medium
sized enterprises
- Development
of Sustainable Local Economies for Health Project (SLEHP), a tool
to help businesses and planners to be effective in recruitment
and retention of a local and diverse workforce, improve workplace
health and consider the environmental footprint of business, public
transport and green planning
Click
here for a full summary of London Works Projects
For
further information, contact:
 London
Works for Better Health
Charlotte Hall, Programme Manager
Tel: 020 7983 4651
Email: charlotte.hall@london.gov.uk
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