WorkItOut

The Alpacas are Coming... I've met some really wonderful people in the past few months, who have spoken with me about how they're feeling and how well or unwell their mental health is. The stuff that life throws at you, the impact of different things on different people. "Why do you react like this and I react like that?" I've heard of brilliant support from teams and managers. And I've heard of some quite dreadful things in places where you'd expect people to be more understanding. I've had colleagues so thankful of Somerset County Council for the support through mental health issues and others who perhaps feel they've been let down by an organisation whose main purpose, really, is to look after people. As we keep saying, our vision is to Improve Lives in Somerset. Stress and mental health issues are the number one cause of absence at SCC. Mental health is as important as physical health; actually, I feel the two are intertwin...