The Reckoning - The CLC's Mental Health Failure Exposed | A TBNUK Investigation

The Construction Leadership Council has just launched its Joint Code of Practice for Mental Health in Construction. We read every page. And then we asked the people responsible for it to come on camera and defend it. They refused. In this investigation, The Build Network UK exposes how a self-appointed, unelected group has produced a mental health code that claims to serve the entire construction industry, while almost entirely ignoring the 99% of businesses that are SMEs, sole traders, and self-employed workers. We reveal: Why the chair of the CLC Mental Health Working Group declined to appear on camera, and what she posted on LinkedIn hours later How the code's own language exposes its failure to address the majority of the workforce Why construction cannot be treated as one industry, and why that misunderstanding is costing lives *The working group members who blocked a journalist for asking questions And something personal — why this investigation matters to me more than anything I have ever reported on. Construction loses more men to suicide than to site accidents. Every single year. The people leading the response to that crisis will not answer for it publicly. That changes today. If you work in construction - watch this. If you know someone who does - share it. If you've lost someone - this is for them. The Build Network UK. Independent. Investigative. Unafraid. It's Time For Positive Change. 00:00 - Introduction 00:31 - Who This Industry Actually Is 01:04 - Three Industries. One Useless Code. 03:44 - What The Code Actually Says 05:01 - The Travel Guidance 05:45 - The Invisible Workforce 07:07 - Why This Is Personal 08.01 - The Accountability Test 09:28 - The Echo Chamber 11:02 - The Block 11.44 - The Reality 12.55 - The Close