Mental health related sick leave
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FIN/24/002095/Z
Version Date: 02/07/2024
- What is the total number of sick days taken off by police officers due to mental health reasons, e.g. anxiety, stress, depression or other psychiatric illness. I would like this information to be provided for each of the last five calendar years as follows: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
2. Please could you also provide the proportion of total sick days taken off due to mental health reasons in each of those years (e.g. 40%).
The Resourcing & Development Department have provided the following information.
Please note that the sub-categories for Mental Health sickness differ for 2019, therefore, the tables have been separated as appropriate.
These sickness figures were taken from snapshots as at the last day of the relevant quarter (i.e. 31st December 2023, 30th September 23, etc.) as they were recorded on the system at those times. Any individuals who were on ELB or External Secondment at the time of the snapshots were excluded.
Please be advised that the data within the snapshots does not have accurate working days lost in it, therefore any period of sickness that lasted longer than 5 calendar days has had a 5/7ths formula added to determine working days lost as accurately as possible (e.g. if the sickness period lasted 6 calendar days, 6 x 5/7ths = 4.29 working days lost). This is done to account for any potential weekends occurring within the sickness period, due to current system reporting limitations. This might not be 100% accurate as the data also does not take into account part time workers, flexible working patterns, etc. but it is how we are currently approaching our sickness data for working days lost for our reporting.
|
Dorset Officer Mental Health Sickness |
2019 Total |
|
Anxiety/Nervousness |
751.00 |
|
Depression |
806.00 |
|
Mental Illness |
48.00 |
|
Stress |
3052.00 |
|
Mental Health Total |
4657.00 |
|
Dorset Officer Total Sickness |
11697.57 |
|
% of MH Sickness against Total Sickness |
39.81% |
|
Dorset Officer Mental Health Sickness |
2020 Total |
2021 Total |
2022 Total |
2023 Total |
|
Anxiety |
996.14 |
1553.14 |
1693.57 |
2234.14 |
|
Depression |
824.57 |
751.86 |
1394.14 |
1519.57 |
|
Other mental disorders (inc. bipolar, schizophrenia, hypomania) |
111.43 |
91.43 |
300.57 |
470.00 |
|
Other stress |
3140.00 |
2520.57 |
4875.71 |
5174.86 |
|
Post Traumatic Stress |
230.71 |
547.14 |
671.43 |
1202.43 |
|
Mental Health Total |
5302.86 |
5464.14 |
8935.43 |
10601.00 |
|
Dorset Officer Total Sickness |
13491.43 |
15347.43 |
20014.00 |
19240.14 |
|
% of MH Sickness against Total Sickness |
39.31% |
35.60% |
44.65% |
55.10% |