The fight to get Britain’s lost employees fit and working again

Covid has shrunk the nation's workforce, but new programmes aim to tackle the ill-health that may be holding willing employees and entrepreneurs back

Chelsea Tierney beams as she talks about her new part-time job as a cleaner at Morrisons supermarket. It's really nice, I like it. People are friendly - they're lovely."

Struggling after the pandemic, 36-year-old Tierney had been out of work for more than five years when she was referred to a programme called Working Well, at its office in Bolton. Covid hit and it knocked everyone's confidence," Tierney says. It was awful."