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Despite significant progress being made in recent years towards creating more inclusive workplaces, there is still a great deal more that needs to be done truly to embrace mentally healthy work practices in the UK. This article describes two employment support projects that worked with employees and employers, and sometimes both, to help people in work keep their job, despite their mental health difficulties.

In this issue, we profile a number of initiatives concerned with developing open employment opportunities for individuals with mental health problems ‐ real jobs with market level wages. Four are agencies providing employment support directly to job‐seekers, one is a national association promoting the supported employment or job coach model.

As the commercial activities undertaken by companies have a deeper impact on our lives, it has been recognised as increasingly important to control corporate activities. Control is provided by the criminal law and by statutory or quasi statutory regulation whose purpose is to outlaw corporate activity considered unacceptable in order to protect employees, the environment, investors, or other sections of the general public.

From the proposals for a system of capitalising finance leases included in ED 18 in 1976 to the issue of SSAP 21 in 1984 has been a long haul. Much time has been given to a variety of technical problems, particularly the difficulties of defining a lessor's net cash investment in a lease. However the major delaying factor has undoubtedly been the debate over whether capitalisation of finance leases should be required. For the first time the Accounting Standards Committee (ASC) has explicitly laid out, and called for comment on, “economic consequence” issues. This article is concerned with exploring the nature of these issues and the way the ASC has responded to them.

The earlier version of this Bill which had already passed through the House of Lords and reached the Committee stage in the Commons had to be withdrawn because of lack of time to proceed with it this session. The new (No. 2) version of the Bill, however, contains the several amendments which were made to the old Bill and this will be revived by the Queen's Speech in the new session of Parliament. In stating this, the President of the Board of Trade also said that the full discussion in the Lords and by the public had not been wasted and the publication of the No. 2 Bill would keep the subject alive. It could still be profitably discussed by trade interests and local authorities before its re‐introduction next session.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an update for readers on recent issues relating to adult safeguarding, together with signposting of papers in this issue of the journal.

A review of recent media, news and policy related items was undertaken and key findings are reported.

A range of findings and information pertinent to adult safeguarding is presented in the paper for readers to consider.

Some of the issues and perspectives presented in the paper may be of relevance for professional practice and readers may wish to disseminate such aspects to colleagues in order to inform practice initiatives.

The paper provides an update and overview of recent topics that are linked to adult safeguarding and protection and draws these together in an accessible format.