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Doing what works: individual placement and support into employment
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has published 'Doing what works: individual placement and support into employment'. This briefing paper states that people with severe mental health problems are much more likely to get and keep jobs if services use the most effective methods of supporting them into employment. It describes the Individual Placement and Support scheme and suggests that it is the most effective approach to enabling people to gain and retain the jobs they want. However, the paper states that it is only effective if all seven of its key principles are in place.
Removing barriers: the facts about mental health and employment
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper looks at barriers to employment for people with mental health problems and at efforts that are being made to support their efforts to find and sustain work. Barriers include: stigma and discrimination; low expectations and a lack of resources; financial disincentives. There is some discussion of government policy and the Pathways to Work scheme. The section on developing new ways of working lists some key ways in which people with mental health problems can be helped to find and retain jobs. These include: re-designing vocational and day services; vocational rehabilitation; the Access to Work Scheme; provision of appropriate primary care. It concludes by looking at employers and the case for developing effective programmes with which to manage mental health at work.
Mental health care and the criminal justice system
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 7p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper examines the provision of mental health care in the criminal justice system. It looks at what has been achieved to date and identifies priorities for further work. It starts with an overview of the prison population, looking at ethnicity, gender, young people and Imprisonment for Public Protection. The section on mental health care in prison covers: identifying mental health problems; transfer to NHS care; primary mental health care; dual diagnosis; personality disorders. Alternatives to imprisonment including diversion and community sentences are discussed. The report concludes that the introduction of in-reach teams has lead to an improvement in mental health care in some prisons but the picture is still mixed. The Bradley Report has set the government an ambitious agenda to make improvements.