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UK food banks bring in counsellors and private GPs to help exhausted workers (www.theguardian.com)
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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

At this point it’s hard to isolate the factors, whether austerity, Brexit, inflation due to the war in Ukraine etc.

Still, it’s not exactly surprising that fucking up business with your largest trading partner has an impact on poverty.