The psychological well being disaster within the UK’s movie and tv research has deepened.
That’s the headline discovering of the Movie and TV Charity‘s newest Wanting Glass Survey, one of many business’s most complete research on working situations for British freelancers.
Some 35% of 4,300 respondents described their psychological well being as “poor” or “very poor,” representing a marked improve from 24% over the last research in 2022.
Suicidal ideas had been a function amongst these questioned. Some 30% of respondents (or almost 1,300 folks) mentioned that they had thought-about taking their very own life, an rise from 29% within the earlier survey.
The Movie and TV Charity’s outcomes are all of the extra alarming when you think about that its survey pattern has greater than doubled from 2,000 respondents in 2022.
Equally, the outcomes are usually not stunning. Leaders within the freelance neighborhood have been sounding the alarm on psychological well being points for years, with a slowdown in manufacturing solely exacerbating issues.
The business has additionally confronted the tragedy of John Balson, the TV producer who died by suicide earlier this 12 months after engaged on Channel 4’s true-crime sequence Within the Footsteps of Killers.
The Movie and TV Charity has solely launched partial findings from the Wanting Glass Survey and mentioned it expects to publish a full report subsequent 12 months.
Different outcomes printed on Wednesday confirmed that solely 12% of these surveyed felt that the business is a mentally wholesome place to work. Some 63% mentioned their job harmed their psychological well being.
Practically an equal variety of staff (64%) admitted that they’ve thought-about leaving the business, which was up from 60% in 2022.
Marcus Ryder, CEO of the Movie and TV Charity, mentioned: “Throughout earlier iterations of the Wanting Glass Survey, we’ve got persistently recognized how prevalent poor psychological well being is correct throughout the business.
“The early headlines from our 2024 survey are remarkably constant – considerably constructive given the varied crises which have hit the sector lately, however way more a reason behind nice concern that issues are usually not enhancing rapidly sufficient.”
Engagement with the Movie and TV Charity’s Complete Image Toolkit, an data pack that helps producers design mentally wholesome TV and movie productions, has risen. Greater than 100 firms are utilizing the toolkit, whereas an extra 200 particular person productions have adopted the requirements.
