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Policy briefing: social care funding and mental health
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 4
- Place of publication:
- London
This policy briefing explores the principles that would need to underpin any sustainable social care settlement from the perspective of mental health support for working age adults in England. It reviews the current funding and provision of mental health social work and highlights the vital role mental health social work plays helping people to live independently and to secure their rights and dignity. In addition, local authorities play a key role in providing valuable support carers and commission advocacy services, including for people subject to the Mental Health Act. It concludes that a sustainable solution for social care funding needs to recognise the importance of mental health social work and resolve the confusion between health, housing and social care funding for people with ongoing care needs. (Edited publisher abstract)
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)
A place to live: securing stable accommodation for offenders with mental health problems
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 18p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Ensuring that offenders with mental health problems have a safe and stable home is a key part of their recovery and rehabilitation. Noting the current changing policy context and public spending pressures, this briefing paper examines and discusses homelessness, mental health and offending. It covers stable accommodation and mental health, stable accommodation and offending, pathways into stable accommodation, the role of local authorities, the voluntary sector, the supporting people programme, the criminal justice system, ex-service personnel, housing support for people with multiple needs, welfare reform, the localism agenda, the homelessness duty, spending pressures, cross government working, and outcomes and recovery. It concludes that instability in housing appears to be linked to both poor mental health and offending, that offenders with mental health problems can become trapped in a cycle of offending and homelessness, and that timely access to appropriate housing support could be an important factor in breaking this cycle. It makes recommendations about how people particularly vulnerable to homelessness could be better supported in order to improve outcomes for individuals and their community.