This afternoons session started with a welcome back and now it’s time for Motions to continue being discussed and agreed on, these motions were all carried.
- Trans Equality – Louder and Prouder
- BI+ Inclusion -Stronger Together
- Conversion Therapy
Freedom of Information Request- s
- National Disability Strategy: Smoke and Mirrors
- Next Steps in the Campaign for Trans + and Non-Binary rights
- a Hub of hope
You can read about the motions by clicking on the below document
During the above debates attention was drawn to the Pink News Article “High-profile appeal against anti-trans LGB Alliance’s charity” if you click on the link below you can read more…
Next up we had a speech from guest speaker – Taiwo Owatemi MP who is the Labour MP for Coventry North West, and has been an MP continuously since 12 December 2019. you can find her on Twitter.com – @TaiwoOwatemi
the final session today was a panel debate on LGBT+ Mental health which was very interesting with personal accounts from the panel of situations that have happened and the best practice, sign posting work to ensure people are as protected and supported as much as possible. questions were raised with concerns for Mental Health First aiders and support for them to carry out their work successfully but employers not providing any support.
A useful guide has been recently released on mental health policies and bargaining for change. click the document below to read in more details.
Attention was also drawn to the important document, Thriving at work The Stevenson / Farmer review of mental health and employers. the important extract is the following…
“Deloitte conducted a systematic review of literature on the returns from investing in Mental Health in the workplace resulting in the inclusion of 23 high quality examples where investments were made in trying to improve mental health and where there was enough information to evaluate the impact. The return on investment of workplace mental health interventions is overwhelmingly positive. The average return per £1 spent was £4.20 (with a range of between 40p and £9), and this has been supported by international academic literature in the form of meta- studies”
you can read the rest of the document by clicking on the below
This concludes todays conference session and the next session will be tomorrow morning keep your eyes out for the next information.