The long battle to get Britain’s lost employees back to work

In the wake of Covid, many of the economically inactive people in the UK would love to take up a new job. In the first of a series of articles about our changing workforce, we ask what it would take to make them productive again

I can't see me ever being well enough to go back to teaching, or actually to do any kind of meaningful employment, because I can't concentrate. I have about an hour, and then it's gone."

Naomi Vann, a PE teacher at a special needs school, has been suffering from long Covid since November 2020, when she caught the virus for the second time.