Unsurprisingly, as #JeremyHunt thinks absence from the labour market due to #longtermsickness is the major underlying cause of shortages of #workers, the #Tories are looking to reform work capability assessments so as to 'encourage' more of the long term sick back into work;

they think this is helping people who aspire to get back to work to find appropriate work, critics see this as a vindictive targeting of the vulnerable.

Given the #Tories moral record, I'll leave you to decide which?

Q. what do #mentalhealth related #school absences & #longtermsickness have in common?

Both (in part) suggest our society is dysfunctional for an increasing proportion of our population.

Certainly there are immediate causes (from exam related stress to long #waitinglists), but what both trends reveal is a system that puts (further) pressure on the absentees & sees them as the problem, not the system itself.

Rather we need to see our social structures & practices as the underlying cause(s)!