{"id":25579,"date":"2026-10-22T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=25579"},"modified":"2026-11-06T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:13:52","slug":"eic-update-welfare-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/eic-update-welfare-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"EIC Update: Welfare Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An update from the Electrical Industries Charity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;September saw 78 new cases come through to the EIC\u2019s Welfare Team, an increase on what we saw in August.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mental health support continues to be the dominant theme we are seeing in our cases, with an uptick in support for general stress and anxiety. We also saw an increase in legal support cases this month. Demand for support for children and teenagers remains high, in particular as schools have now restarted for the new year. The Welfare team anticipates a continuation of the above in the coming months, as well as an increase in requests for financial support as we move towards the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our team responded to 170 helpline calls and worked alongside 6 collaborative partners. Support was provided to 56 men and 22 women.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update from the Electrical Industries Charity. &#8220;September saw 78 new cases come through to the EIC\u2019s Welfare Team, an increase on what we saw in August. &#8220;Mental health support continues to be the dominant theme we are seeing in our cases, with an uptick in support for general stress and anxiety. We also saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/September-Welfare-Stats-scaled.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25581,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions\/25581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}