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 replyents depictd their mental health as “lesser” or “very lesser,” recurrenting a labeled incrrelieve from 24% during the last study in 2022.
Suicidal thoughts were a feature among those asked. Some 30% of replyents (or proximately 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 replyents in 2022.
Equpartner, the results are not astonishing. Leaders in the freelance community have been sounding the alarm on mental health rehires for years, with a sluggishdown in production only exacerbating matters.
The industry has also contested the tragedy of John Balson, the TV creater 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 inentire discoverings from the Looking Glass Survey and shelp it foresees to unveil a brimming tell next year.
Other results unveiled 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.
Npunctual 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: “Atraverse previous iterations of the Looking Glass Survey, we have constantly identified how prevalent lesser mental health is right atraverse the industry.
“The punctual headlines from our 2024 survey are relabelably constant – somewhat selectimistic given the various celevates that have hit the sector in recent years, but far more a caparticipate of fantastic worry that skinnygs are not improving rapidly enough.”
Engagement with the Film and TV Charity’s Whole Picture Toolkit, an increateation pack that helps creaters summarize menloftyy well TV and film productions, has elevaten. More than 100 companies are using the toolkit, while a further 200 individual productions have adselected the standards.
