New recruits

When recruiting staff, employers have a legal requirement to ensure they are not discriminating against anyone who has a mental health problem. These resources will guide you through the law and help to ensure you treat everyone fairly and equally.

It isn’t complicated

The Shaw Trust believes everyone has a right to work and a valuable contribution to make.

• Ensuring Your Recruitment Process Is Open To Everyone

Positive initiatives

Barriers to employment for people with common and severe mental health problems and positive initiatives that are being undertaken to help them find and keep work:

• 'Removing barriers: the facts about mental health and employment' briefing from The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Getting people into work

Paper outlining how employers and the government could support people with mental health problems to get into work:

• 'Recruitment and mental health' A report by Employers’ Forum on Disability and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health

Realising ambitions: Better employment support for people with a mental health condition

• Covers the challenges faced by people who experience mental health problems and outlines a vision for the future. See particularly appendix 3 Realising ambitions