Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said the nation's approach to tackling mental health issues may have 'gone too far' and that the UK must go back to the belief that work is good for you.
Mental health affects more than a third of 16 to 34-year-olds out of workBritons must revert to the 'old-fashioned belief' that work is good for you, the Work and Pensions Secretary said yesterday.
Last month it emerged that 2.8million have left the workforce due to long-term sickness – the most since the 1990s. 'Perhaps it's an old-fashioned belief – but I think it's one that needs to come back into fashion – is that work is good for you,' he told Radio 4's Today programme. Last month it emerged that 2.8million have left the workforce due to long-term sickness – the most since the 1990s 'Getting up in the morning, having a sense of purpose, interacting with other people in the workplace, having that conversation by the watercooler or whatever it may be, is good for our mental health.
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