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.
1 in 4 families need help with living costs, the economy has tanked, the air is so polluted that several cities are outright banning cars, no-one can afford to hire cheap staff so they have to either close down or increase wages, there’s a shortage of every type of avocado, and what’s worse is that we have to wait in the “… and others” line when we travel to Europe at immigration.
Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster.