"Fathers who take more than a few days off around the birth of their child are more likely to be actively involved in raising their child than those who do not.
"Fathers' greater involvement in family life can make it easier for mothers to return to work after taking maternity leave, which helps to raise the family's income and lessen the impact of motherhood on women's careers."
CIPP webcast on the new Health and Work Service
18 June 2014
The Policy team has produced a short webcast to provide an overview of the abolition of the Percentage Threshold Scheme and the subsequent introduction of the Health and Work Service.
CIPP webcast on the new Health and Work Service
CIPP members can access all webcast recordings which are permanently stored on the CIPP website under Membership/My CIPP/Webinar recordings.
If members have any suggestions for topics that they would like us to consider for future webcasts, please email your ideas to policy .
Health and Work Service Tendering Exercise
29 July 2014
Following a successful tendering exercise, Health Management Limited, a Maximus company has been appointed to deliver the new Health and Work Service in England and Wales. The Health and Work Service in Scotland will be delivered by the Scottish Government and will provide the same core service as delivered in England and Wales.
The Service will make health and work expertise and occupational health assessments more widely available to all GPs, employers and employees via:
an occupational health assessment, offered to employees who have reached, or are expected to reach, four weeks' sickness absence; and a web based and telephone advice service providing general health and work advice, which will be available to all, including employees, employers and GPs.
Further guidance is available.
Contract for Government's new Health & Work Service awarded to leading occupational health provider
22 August 2014
The contract for the Government's new Health and Work service (the Service) has been awarded to Health Management Limited (HML), a subsidiary of Maximus, one of the largest occupational health providers in the UK.
Our thanks to Pinsent Masons for the following report:
The Government-funded health service, which is due to be launched in December 2014 with a phased roll out until May 2015, seeks to assist employees who are sick and off from work, by providing them with an occupational health assessment when they have reached over
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