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A strategy for Wales
- Author:
- HATCHETT Will
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.6.92, 1992, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Discovers why the All Wales Mental Illness Strategy appears likely to succeed where the earlier Mental Handicap Strategy ran into difficulties.
Development of services for people with a mental handicap or mental illness in Wales: second report prepared pursuant to Section 11 of the Disabled Persons (Services, Consultation and Representation) Act 1986
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 6p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Mental health statistics for Wales, No.11, 1991
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 120p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Challenges and responses: report of a seminar 16-17 march 1992, Park Hotel, Cardiff
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office. All Wales Advisory Panel on the Development of Services for People with Mental Handicaps
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 56p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Report from a seminar on provision of services to people with learning difficulties, who also have challenging behaviour, mental illness or who offend.
A strategy for Wales
- Author:
- RENSHAW Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Insight, 11.10.89, 1989, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
Analyses the Welsh Office's 'Mental Illness Services : A Strategy for Wales'.
Improving equality of access to Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA): a report for providers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 17
- Place of publication:
- London
This report aims to help Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) services reach everyone who is entitled to their support. It aims to help IMHA providers to achieve the best possible outcomes for all people treated under the Mental Health Act 1983 amended in 2007. Drawing directly on the findings and recommendations of the national review of the quality of IMHA services in England, the report highlights the problem of unequal uptake of IMHA by some groups of ‘qualifying patients' and explores what can be done to change this situation. It highlights the obligations of IMHA services under the Equality Act (2010) and provides concrete suggestions about how to take effective action and improve practice when working with people sharing relevant protected characteristics. It also suggest steps that IMHA providers can take to help them identify, understand, and address the barriers to the full and effective use of their service by everyone who is entitled to access it. (Edited publisher abstract)
Improving equality of access to Independent Mental Health Advocacy (IMHA): a briefing for providers
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 3
- Place of publication:
- London
This summary aims to help Independent Mental Health Advocate (IMHA) providers to open up their service to everyone who has the right to use it. Ensuring equalities within IMHA services means reaching all qualifying patients regardless of their ethnicity, age, gender, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation or any other characteristics protected by the 2010 Equalities Act. It also means taking these characteristics into careful account and developing a service that can understand their impact and meet people's needs in the best possible way. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working with compassion: a toolkit for Wales
- Author:
- SAMARITANS Cymru
- Publisher:
- Samaritans
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 28
This toolkit has been designed to help people in Wales develop compassionate approaches at work and improve the interaction and outcomes between staff, customers, clients or service users. Compassion is based on empathy, respect and dignity. While empathy is the ability to put yourself in the other person's place and understand their distress, compassion has the additional element of actively wanting to help them. In order to encourage compassion in the workplace, we have consulted with representatives from a diverse range of organisations, many of them frontline staff, from the police service to third sector organisations to job centres. The toolkit includes practical advice and tips for staff on the following: how to deal with difficult conversations, emotional distress (spotting the signs, myth-busting), knowing the facts, how to become a better listener, mental health crisis (what is it and what to do). Learning these skills and areas of knowledge can improve outcomes for staff and customers, clients, clients or service users. The compassion shown to them in these areas can affect how people perceive their interaction with individuals and services and can make them feel valued and cared for. The toolkit includes a comprehensive list of useful organisations and helplines. These can be helpful if staff need to signpost a customer, clients or service user to some help. (Edited publisher abstract)
What do we know about children from England and Wales in secure care in Scotland?
- Author:
- GIBSON Ross
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 36
- Place of publication:
- London
This report sets out to help provide a better understanding of the profile and experiences of children placed in Scottish secure care centres by English and Welsh local authorities. It aims to provide an overview of: the children's characteristics (age, gender and ethnicity); why they were admitted to secure accommodation; the prevalence and types of adversity they had faced since they were born and in the year prior to admission; the support and services they had received in the year prior to admission; their social care histories. The majority of the 59 children (64%) in secure homes in Scotland who had been placed there by English and Welsh local authorities were aged 15 years or older - this is similar to the proportion of children in this age bracket in secure homes in England and Wales. Most of the children in this study had experienced emotional and physical neglect and abuse, sexual abuse, exposure to parental substance misuse and domestic abuse - with these issues often overlapping. Alongside this, children displayed complex mental health problems, including self-harm, and behaviours that are difficult to manage such as violence and aggression. In addition, they were at risk from a range of factors outside the home, including bullying, school exclusion, and criminal and sexual exploitation. It is clear that the systems in England and Wales are struggling to respond to this group of children's needs. Children sent to secure care in Scotland are often living hundreds of miles from their homes, and from their family and friends, most likely because an alternative placement that can keep them safe or meet their needs cannot be found any closer to home. In addition, almost all the children had experienced significant disruption and breakdowns in previous arrangements made for their care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Deprivation of liberty: legal mechanisms
- Author:
- PARKER Camilla
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 13
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper reflects on the circumstances giving rise to a child or young person’s deprivation of liberty and summarises the legal mechanisms for authorising this. Increasing concern has been raised about a small but highly vulnerable number of children and young people who are deprived of their liberty in various settings in England and Wales – including in secure children’s homes – and the lack of information available about them. There are many circumstances where the care and support provided to a child or young person can give rise to a deprivation of liberty – such as where arrangements are put in place to protect a child or young person vulnerable to criminal or sexual exploitation, to prevent a child or young person with mental health problems from harming themselves, or to provide support to an autistic child or young person who becomes physically and verbally aggressive when distressed. Considering whether such care arrangements give rise to a deprivation of liberty is fundamental to upholding the rights of that child or young person. If they give rise to a deprivation of liberty, legal authority must be obtained. A number of legal mechanisms can be used to authorise a child or young person’s deprivation of liberty depending on their age, their needs and where they will be placed. Unlike adults, there are circumstances where children and young people’s parents (and others with parental responsibility) can make decisions on behalf of their child. A question for the courts has therefore been whether this parental decision-making role is relevant to determining whether a child or young person is deprived of their liberty, and if so, how. Recent decisions have provided greater clarity on this question and the factors that give rise to children and young people’s deprivation of liberty. However, the supreme court’s decision in Re D (A Child) [2019] UKSC 42 has created a marked difference in approach between children aged under 16, and those aged 16 and 17. (Edited publisher abstract)