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Understanding Children and Young People’s Mental Health

The Equality Act 2010 offers protection from discrimination at work when a mental
health problem is defined as a disability, and the charity Mind has a helpful leaflet
explaining more about this law and protection against discrimination at work.

This Act says that an employer may not ask questions about health before offering a
job to someone, and this is to prevent discrimination on the grounds of health-related
problems. Once the job is offered however, they can ask health-related questions and
a person may be offered the job ‘conditionally’, that is to say subject to satisfactory
references or disability checks.

R Further Research: Rights in the workplace

You can find out more about rights in the workplace in relation to
mental health by following the link below and exploring the useful
information there. Make notes in the space below.

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/legal-rights/
discrimination-at-work/#.XH0W5Ij7SUl

Read Katie’s story on the next page about dealing with her mental illness at work.

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