Video tutorial: DWP's Angus Gray explains what employers might expect from government on wellbeing

He reiterated the government’s plans to have 1 million more disabled people in work by 2027. “We need to help people into work and slow down the rate of people coming out of work,” he said.

Speaking at the Employee Wellbeing Congress 2018 he talked about how to improve advice and support for employers. He outlined what the government was doing in response to the Stevenson/Farmer report and experiments that were already underway to better work with business owners and employers.

He said the biggest area of work currently was looking at incentives and expectations for employers. “We recognise that the business case may not really exist for some people to invest in this agenda. We want to review everything that’s in place and start to think what might a better, more coherent framework look like,” he said.

He applauded the core standards recommended by the Stevenson/Farmer review in helping to better manage mental health at work and asked delegates to understand how their organisations could be implementing the standards too.

This video was recorded at the Employee Wellbeing Congress 2018, held in London on 5 July.