WIN Founder Lana Hempsall has written in The Spectator about the sharp rise in disability and mental-health-related benefit claims Britain is witnessing, particularly among young people, with schools increasingly funnelling pupils towards diagnoses that can lead to long-term welfare dependency. She argues that institutions have begun to pathologise ordinary emotion, creating a system that rewards fragility and encourages teenagers to see temporary struggles as permanent incapacity. Lana warns that without consistent government action to restore resilience and ensure support is reserved for genuine need, the UK risks embedding a culture of dependency that will shape the expectations of an entire generation.
Read the full article here: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/welfare-dependency-begins-at-school/
