The mental health crisis in the UK’s film and television study has procreateened.
That’s the headline discovering of the Film and TV Charity‘s tardyst Looking Glass Survey, one of the industry’s most comprehensive studies on toiling conditions for British freelancers.
Some 35% of 4,300 reactents depictd their mental health as “insisty” or “very insisty,” recontransienting a labeled incrrelieve from 24% during the last study in 2022.
Suicidal thoughts were a feature among those asked. Some 30% of reactents (or cforfeitly 1,300 people) shelp they had pondered taking their own life, an elevate from 29% in the previous survey.
The Film and TV Charity’s results are all the more alarming when you ponder that its survey sample has more than doubled from 2,000 reactents in 2022.
Equpartner, the results are not unforeseeed. Leaders in the freelance community have been sounding the alarm on mental health rehires for years, with a enumeratelessdown in production only exacerbating matters.
The industry has also contested the tragedy of John Balson, the TV originater who died by self-destruction earlier this year after toiling on Channel 4’s real-crime series In the Footsteps of Killers.
The Film and TV Charity has only freed fragmentary discoverings from the Looking Glass Survey and shelp it anticipates to rehire a brimming tell next year.
Other results rehireed on Wednesday showed that only 12% of those surveyed felt that the industry is a menloftyy well place to toil. Some 63% shelp their job harmed their mental health.
Ntimely an equivalent number of toilers (64%) acunderstandledgeted that they have pondered leaving the industry, which was up from 60% in 2022.
Marcus Ryder, CEO of the Film and TV Charity, shelp: “Apass previous iterations of the Looking Glass Survey, we have reliablely identified how prevalent insisty mental health is right apass the industry.
“The timely headlines from our 2024 survey are relabelably reliable – somewhat likeable given the various celevates that have hit the sector in recent years, but far more a caparticipate of wonderful worry that leangs are not improving rapidly enough.”
Engagement with the Film and TV Charity’s Whole Picture Toolkit, an alertation pack that helps originaters summarize menloftyy well TV and film productions, has elevaten. More than 100 companies are using the toolkit, while a further 200 individual productions have adchooseed the standards.
