{"id":18800,"date":"2025-10-09T10:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/?p=18800"},"modified":"2025-10-09T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:31:08","slug":"world-mental-health-day-10-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/world-mental-health-day-10-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action to protect your team\u2019s mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In support of World Mental Health Day, 10th October 2025, we urge employers to go beyond awareness and take practical steps to prevent work-related stress. In 2023 to 2024 around half of all self-reported work-related ill health cases in Great Britain were linked to stress, depression or anxiety. This resulted in increased absence, reduced productivity and higher staff turnover.<\/p>\n<p>This World Mental Health Day, take a meaningful step to support your team\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>You can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>review whether your team&#8217;s workloads are realistic and deadlines achievable<\/li>\n<li>improve communication and feedback<\/li>\n<li>use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/stress\/talking-toolkit.htm?utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=working-minds&amp;utm_term=wmhd-1&amp;utm_content=digest-9-oct-25\" rel=\"noopener\">Talking Toolkit<\/a> to support conversations<\/li>\n<li>complete a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/stress\/risk-assessment.htm?utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=working-minds&amp;utm_term=wmhd-2&amp;utm_content=digest-9-oct-25\" rel=\"noopener\">stress risk assessment<\/a> using these templates<\/li>\n<li>encourage managers to complete this <a href=\"https:\/\/workingminds.focusgames.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">free training module<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To access tools, templates and free training, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hse.gov.uk\/stress\/talking-toolkit.htm?utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=working-minds&amp;utm_term=wmhd-1&amp;utm_content=digest-9-oct-25\" rel=\"noopener\">Working Minds campaign website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about stress at work by playing this mini game. Avoid the red stress risks and collect green resources to boost your score: <a href=\"https:\/\/playhse.focusgames.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">HSE Working Minds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take action to protect your team\u2019s mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-25 23:56:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18800\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/eycs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}