Sunday, June 28, 2015

Mental health workers protest at move to integrate clinic with jobcentre

Critics say plans for London clinic come dangerously close to government proposal to give psychological treatments to the unemployed

Mental health workers and their clients marched on a jobcentre in south-west London in protest at a scheme they say frames unemployment as a psychological disorder.

The Department for Work and Pensions announced in March that Streatham’s jobcentre would be the first to have therapists giving mental health support to help unemployed people back into work.

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