Local government’s ambition is to enable everyone to achieve their potential for a healthy and productive life. The connection between employment and health is pivotal to so many of us. 

The evidence that unemployment is bad for your health is clear and likewise that good work is an important contributor to improved health and wellbeing outcomes across people’s lives. Ill health can also affect people’s participation in the labour market, with over 300,000 people annually falling out of work and onto health-related welfare. This has a significant cost to the individual, families, communities, employers and public services.

Work and health is central to the story of people and place. Helping people with health issues to obtain or retain work and be happy and productive within the workplace is a crucial part of the economic success and wellbeing of every community.