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UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Emperor to c/unitedkingdom

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Britain’s food bank charities are buying in counselling, GP and mental health support services to help staff and volunteers cope with stress and exhaustion triggered by the explosion in demand for emergency food.

The wellbeing services are a response to a rise in burnout and stress among frontline food bank workers as they deal with expanding workloads and the emotional burden of supporting increasing numbers of destitute and emotionally traumatised clients.

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[–] brewery 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My cousin just came back from Australia and was quickly saying wtf is going on here. There's lots of issues but also there's s a crazy sense of despair all around. We're normally miserable but not this miserable!

I think the mood is bad because everyone knows we need rid of the current tories but (1) it's probably at least a year away and (2) I'm not sure people are too happy with some of labour's recent moves (they're aiming for the middle ground and just saying nothing but it's alienating traditional labour supporters) so there's a sense they'll be better but only because a clown using his feet to fire darts at a keyboard 10 miles away would govern better than this lot. This lot seem to care more about a rich person's bank account, a couple of boats they've had many years to stop but can't do anything about and trying a Nazi like scheme to send asylum seekers to anywhere but here

[–] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure people are too happy with some of labour’s recent moves (they’re aiming for the middle ground and just saying nothing but it’s alienating traditional labour supporters)

Yeah, the Tories succesfully managed to shift politics to the right where everyone just tries to appeal to center right and further while left voters can only vote for the lefter of the parties.