Fire Fighters mental health sick days - Find a freedom of information request

Request

1. The total number of sick days taken off by firefighters where mental health was provided as the reason, by year, since 2010.

2. The total number of sick days taken by all staff where mental health was provided as the reason, by year, since 2010.

3. The total number of firefighters in your authority, by year, since 2010.

Decision

1.

• 2010 - 90

• 2011 - 154

• 2012 - 86

• 2013 - 374

• 2014 - 283

• 2015 - 551

• 2016 - 174

• 2017 - 779

• 2018 – 1,390

• 2019 - 561

• 2020 - 434

• 2021 - 691

2.

• 2010 - 90

• 2011 - 223

• 2012 - 100

• 2013 - 487

• 2014 - 542

• 2015 – 1,022

• 2016 - 204

• 2017 - 855

• 2018 – 1,474

• 2019 - 561

• 2020 - 834

• 2021 – 748

3. The total number of firefighters can be found in the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/fire-statistics-data-tables

Reference number
5137065
Date request received
23 September 2022
Date of decision
3 October 2022