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Table 1 Actions at local level

From: Reducing stigma and discrimination: Candidate interventions

Action

By

• Introduction supported work schemes

• Mental health services with specialist independent sector provider

• Psychological treatments to improve cognition, self-esteem and confidence

• Mental health and general health service

• Health and social care explicitly give credit to applicants with a history of mental illness when hiring staff

• Health and social care agencies

• Provision of reasonable adjustments/accommodations at work

• Mental health providers engaging with employers and business confederation

• Inform employers of their legal obligations under disability laws

• Employers' confederation

• Deliver and evaluate the widespread implementation of targeted interventions with targeted groups, including school children, police and healthcare staff

• Education, police and health commissioning and provider authorities

• Provide accurate data on mental illness recovery rates to mental health practitioners

• Professional training and accreditation organisations

• Implementation of measures to support care plans negotiated between staff and consumers

• Mental health provider organisations and consumer groups