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Initial Request:
Please could you provide the total amount of days taken off work by firefighters due to mental health-related illnesses or conditions broken down by financial year from 2014-19 in the following format:
Financial year Days absence due to sickness
2014/15 e.g. 365
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
In addition, please also provide the number of firefighters that have taken time off work due to mental health-related illnesses or conditions broken down by the type of illness (i.e. stress, anxiety, depression) and by financial year from 2014-19 in the following table format:
Year Number of firefighters Condition (stress) Condition (anxiety) Condition (depression)
2013/14 e.g. 16 5 5 6
2014/15
2015/16
2016/17
2017/18
2018/19
Final response:
Both tables reflect Whole time operational colleagues only. There are no figures included for on call colleagues, because of historic systems/data collection restrictions.
1. The total number of days taken off work by firefighters due to mental health related issues in the following financial years.
Please note that these are calendar days, not duty days and the figures reflect the year in which a number of days fell – i.e. the maximum number of days in any given year for one person is 365 days.
|
Financial year |
Days absence due to sickness |
|
2014/15 |
897 |
|
2015/16 |
921 |
|
2016/17 |
804 |
|
2017/18 |
800 |
|
2018/19 |
635 |
2. The number of firefighters that have taken time off work due to mental health related issues
Please note that we are not able to break down the absence by the condition types as our historic data source does not provide this level of detail.
|
Year |
Number of firefighters |
|
2014/15 |
17 |
|
2015/16 |
20 |
|
2016/17 |
19 |
|
2017/18 |
19 |
|
2018/19 |
15 |
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