{"id":333510,"date":"2025-12-09T00:59:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:59:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T00:59:37","slug":"hmp-garth-prison-staff-mental-health-sick-days-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/333510\/","title":{"rendered":"HMP Garth prison staff mental health sick days on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England&#8217;s prisons lost almost 150,000 working days due to mental ill health last year, up 44% since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Prison Officers&#8217; Association said it had &#8220;consistently&#8221; called on the service to fund specialised on-site mental health support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National chairman Mark Fairhurst said relying on peer support would &#8220;not assist staff who deal with homicides, suicides, self-harm and bullying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoJ said officers have access to mental health support and it was &#8220;investing around \u00a315m to improve their safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson added the government was tackling &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; levels of violence, self-harm and assaults through additional prison places and sentencing reforms &#8220;so our jails create better citizens, not better criminals&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s prisons lost almost 150,000 working days due to mental ill health last year, up 44% since 2019.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-333510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}