Labour to shelve farming mental health fund

The Farming Resilience Fund, which supports businesses and farmer's mental health, is set to end in March. The Government said it will recruit more than 8,000 NHS health professionals to support a 'mental heath crisis' in farming

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"We are being sold down the river every which way you look it. I never thought life would be so bad as it is right now to be a farmer in Britain."
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"We are being sold down the river every which way you look it. I never thought life would be so bad as it is right now to be a farmer in Britain."

A £10 million fund to support the mental health and wellbeing of farmers is due to be shelved next month. Defra confirmed the Farming Resilience Fund, which was introduced in October 2022 to provide...

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