Days off work due to mental health 2021-2024 - Find a freedom of information request

Request

In the last three years, how many members of staff have taken at least one day off work due to mental health? (Broken down by years: 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24)
 
1a) Can you provide a breakdown of specific mental health reasons/conditions for example, anxiety, stress, depression, PTSD, work-related stress? (Broken down by year)
 
1b) Of those that had taken time off due to mental health, how many subsequently left the service? Broken down by year.
 
Are you able to provide an estimated cost of absences (of any kind including for mental health) to the service in the last three years (Broken down by years: 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24)?

Decision

1. 2022 - 36
2023 - 42
2024 - 23

 

1a. Anxiety
Depression
Stress

 

1b. Of those employees who had time off due to 'mental health' related reasons from fiscal year 2021/2022 onwards, the following numbers of employees left the service in the noted fiscal years:

2021/2022:19

2022/2023: 6

2023/2024: 9

YTD 2024/2025 ending 30th November: 10

Grand Total for this period: 44

 

2. Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) does not hold this information.

Reference number
10975982
Date request received
13 November 2024
Date of decision
10 December 2024