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New plan to tackle stress

national template for a new been updated for years.
nine-point stress plan which aims to “With the additional
A help forces better prioritise officer evidence from the national PFEW
wellbeing has been launched by the Police demand, capacity and welfare
Federation of England and Wales (PFEW). survey, we were able to back up
Health and safety representatives from what we already knew - there
all 43 branches of the Police Federation have was not enough being done to
been presented with the template and it has support the welfare and mental
also been shared with the Scottish Police health of our officers.”
Federation, the Police Federation for He added: “We are asking all
Northern Ireland, the British Transport our health and safety leaders to
Police, the Civic Nuclear Constabulary and have discussions with their
the Ministry of Defence. respective chairs and
Jason Kwee, national health and safety secretaries and, of course, chief
lead for the Federation, has been officers, as to how this may
instrumental in pulling together the plan, support their local wellbeing
which was presented at the National Police programme.”
Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) health and safety With stress being one of
working group and accepted in principle. the biggest reasons for
“As a forum, we looked at what was in absence, there is growing
place to tackle stress in the workplace. We momentum to tackle the issue
were only able identify one risk-based with initiatives from many
process to identify and reduce stress which stakeholders, including the
was the HSE management standards (SMS),” NPCC, the Health and Safety
Jason explains. Executive (HSE) and the
“Through consultations and surveys that College of Policing’s Oscar Kilo
were undertaken, we quickly identified that initiative which is aiming to
there were different levels of bring assessment, learning
implementations across forces, some had and conversation about
real successes and other force policies hadn’t wellbeing into one place.

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