Staff absences

12 May 2022

Your request

I would like to know the number of days taken off by staff within your borough reporting sickness absence with a reason of anxiety, stress, depression or other psychiatric illness for each of the last 5 calendar years as follows: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. If possible, please could I have this broken-down directorate of the staff (education, housing, children's services etc) I would like this data to be presented in an Excel or PDF spreadsheet with a new sheet for each year and a section on each point of information.

Our response

Please find council-wide figures below. The figures are FTE days lost to sickness absence for reasons of the following

2021-22

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018

Stress/depression/ fatigue/anxiety/mental health

8131.6

6238.58

2719.5

5691

4669.1

We do not hold a breakdown per directorate