We're changing the view

摘要

Norfolk CC have a long history of putting in measures to address wellbeing. All these measures have made a difference to teams and individual employees and managers, but there was always a feeling that we were picking at wellbeing and making it a 'thing' and nice if it could be accommodated. It was also heavily weighted on reactive measures, and just 'fixing broken stuff' isn't the best way to improve wellbeing in the long-term. The change came about in 2018 when the wellbeing team in collaboration with Public Health presented a three year plan to make wellbeing an integral part of the employee-employer relationship. The paper laid out the drivers for making wellbeing an issue that needed addressing in the council (refering to the Thriving at Work report and The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices) and how addressing employee wellbeing related to the council's aspirations.