A mental health worker's plea to the public to find a lost folder full of confidential files has had a happy ending. 

Nazma Ramruttun, who works for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership, and is a governor at Lawn Manor Academy lost a filofax full of private and confidential information more than a week ago.

She had visited the school for a governor's meeting and afterwards had driven off having accidentally left the filofax on the boot of her car and when she got home it wasn't there. 

She searched for it on the roads she had travelled on but couldn't find it, leading her to make a desperate plea on Facebook to see if anyone had picked it up. 

"I'd started to give up hope because it had been a week, but then I got a call from the school - it had been handed in."

Nazma rushed to the school, where the parent of a child who does martial arts there had handed it in, and was pleased to discover that it was fully intact, and everything inside it was still there.

"It had been found by a dog walker named Dom, who gave it to a parent he knew was going to the school for martial arts," Nazma explained. 

"I'm so grateful to him for finding it and I'm grateful to everyone else for their support."