#ICYMI In Case You Missed It | Review of Q1&2 2025
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Content
- Post-cancer return to work support: now a reality for more employees
- Men’s Mental Health: Employers’ role in offering support
- How to tackle pension inadequacy
- Why children’s mental health should be factored into employee benefits
- Working through cancer: Better line manager support
- Employer strategies for supporting parents of children with mental health challenges
- What’s it going to take to move the needle on wellbeing?
- Why cancer demands a benefit rethink
Post-cancer return to work support: now a reality for more employees
Personalised support for employees from Vocational Rehabilitation experts, is now available at no extra cost via Group Life Assurance – as well as Group Income Protection – from Generali UK Employee Benefits. Find out more from our Head of Business Development & Marketing Tracey Ward, and Dr Julie Denning, Managing Director & Chartered Health Psychologist at Working To Wellbeing.
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Men’s Mental Health: Employers’ role in offering support
Men are more willing to talk about their physical health than their mental health. We speak with Lucas Whitehead, Head of Marketing and Partnerships at charity Andy’s Man Club, to understand more on men’s mental health, and how employers and community support services can help.
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How to tackle pension inadequacy
Are new ways of working – and inadequate pension savings – encouraging more employees to work beyond state retirement age? With the help of Marcus Read, Director, Workplace Financial Wellbeing at TrinityBridge (formerly Close Brothers), we get the lowdown on the state of UK retirement savings. Plus, top tips on how employers can support their employees’ financial wellbeing.
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Why children’s mental health should be factored into employee benefits
Untreated mental health problems during childhood or adolescence can lead to a multitude of problems in adulthood, according to research. So, it’s worth investigating what help your existing benefits can provide. For example, bereavement support from the charity Winston’s Wish, as part of our Group Life and Group Income Protection propositions. Please note, Winston’s Wish recently announced a plan to merge with Child Bereavement UK, another highly respected bereavement support charity. The intention is that the newly merged organisation will operate under the name Child Bereavement UK.
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Working through cancer: Better line manager support
Talking about cancer can be uncomfortable for all concerned, but that needn’t be the case. We ask: ‘What does good employer support look like?’. Helping us answer that question are two people with lived experience of a cancer diagnosis; our Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Expert Kay Needle, and also Alex Freeman, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant and Owner of Absence Management Solutions.
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Employer strategies for supporting parents of children with mental health challenges
A child / teen displaying behavioural issues could be associated with an underlying mental health illness, but usually it’s a normal part of growing up; especially for those with a neurodiversity trying to navigate a neurotypical world. What to watch out for and how to help, from Teladoc Health’s Alessandra Sorrentino-Lawrence, Clinical Psychologist, and Colin Preece, Clinical Head of mental health.
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What’s it going to take to move the needle on wellbeing?
Right now, there’s renewed focus by government on tackling health-based economic inactivity, but there arguably seems little focus on how people with health conditions sustain employment. We discuss this and more, with Dr Julie Denning, Managing Director & Chartered Health Psychologist at Working To Wellbeing.
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Why cancer demands a benefit rethink
Kay Needle speaks with Professor Gordon Wishart, CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Check4Cancer, to discuss how to better dovetail benefits – across treatment, rehabilitation and return to work support. Also, why a workplace strategy should include cancer risk assessment, screening and prevention.
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