Staff Sick Leave -17089

A request for information about Staff Sick Leave -17089

Ref: FOI/17089

RE: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 REQUEST

I am writing to confirm that the West Midlands Fire Service has now completed its search for the information you requested on 22^nd August 2017

Please find below a summary of our findings.

Request

I would like to make a request to under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

For each year since 2010:

– how many staff have taken sick leave due to work-related stress;

– what proportion of the entire workforce is that;

– how many working hours/days have been lost due to work-related stress?

Reply

West Midlands Fire Service start recording data for work related stress from 2013 therefore we have supplied data from 2013 to 2017 please see below table.

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