Mental health charities warn that banks provide little support for customers with mental health issues, and in some cases exacerbate their conditions by treating debtors insensitively and selling them unsuitable products. A government thinktank Foresight suggests that debt collection agencies often ‘deliberately produce fear, anxiety and mental stress’ for debtors, and creditors needed to make
The mental health problems faced by rough sleepers have reached a ‘critical level’ following a rise in the homelessness rate, St Mungo’s has found. Among its clients, 40 per cent were diagnosed with depression and 22 per cent were diagnosed with schizophrenia, which St Mungo’s called ‘the tip of the iceberg’. It warned that the
St Mungoâs is seeking youth workersâ views on mental health and homelessness for a report. It said the proportion of homeless people with mental health problems remain static, at around a third, despite a reduction in the number of street homeless in the past decade, and warned the government would fail to hit its target