{"id":296004,"date":"2025-12-03T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296004\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T02:52:10","slug":"hmp-garth-prison-staff-mental-health-sick-days-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/296004\/","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":296005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-296004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}