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Ten questions for your council
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 2
- Place of publication:
- London
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) provides a description of the health and wellbeing status of the local population and informs the local Health and Wellbeing Board’s strategy and commissioning priorities for health, public health and social care. However, there is huge variation in how well mental health is covered in JSNAs. This briefing provides ten questions to ensure that relevant mental health information is included in the JSNA to promote good mental health and to prevent and treat mental health conditions. (Edited publisher abstract)
Barriers to employment: what works for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 16
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing identifies where the main barriers to employment still lie, what we know about which interventions work (and should be provided more widely), and where there are gaps in evidence-based interventions and what might be tested to develop that evidence. The briefing describes supports which are currently available for people wanting to work, and calls for a more widespread implementation of best practice. One such instance is Individual Placement and Support (IPS), an approach to helping people with severe mental illness to get back into employment; but although Its evidence base is well-established, its availability across the UK is patchy..Using personal budgets is suggested as an option for funding IPS. The briefing comments on the effects of policies such as universal credit (UC), and the work capability assessment (WCA): these do little to tackle inequalities in employment rates for those with mental health problems or other disabilities. The briefing urges commissioners and providers of both employment services and health and social care to make support into employment a priority: employers also need support to be able to help existing employees who develop mental health problems. . (Edited publisher abstract)
Welfare advice for people who used mental health services: developing the business case: executive summary
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2013
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
There is a link between poor mental health and a frequent experience of welfare problems such as unmanageable debt and difficulties with housing and benefits. This is a summary of a report funded by the Baring Foundation, which finds that specialist welfare advice for people using secondary mental health services can be very good value for money. Drawing on an analysis of one such service, the Sheffield Mental Health Citizens Advice Bureau, and a review of relevant literature, the report concludes that specialist welfare advice can cut the cost of health care in three main ways: reductions in inpatient lengths of stay; prevention of homelessness; and prevention of relapse. (Edited publisher abstract)