This guidance is designed to support providers and staff working in NHS mental health services to exercise their statutory and professional duties to safeguard vulnerable adults, children and young people at risk of radicalisation. It sets out expectations and considerations that providers and professionals should take into account. It is structured into four key components: Prevent responsibilities of mental health providers – outlining the safeguarding pathways that should be in place, the roles and responsibilities of key staff and training requirements; Prevent referrals from mental health providers – outlining the processes for referring to Prevent and working in partnership with police; Role of mental health providers in the Prevent process – outlining information sharing and considerations relating to detention under the Mental Health Act; and Referrals into mental health services from Prevent – ensuring timely access to services to those at risk of radicalisation with mental health needs and considerations for the prioritisation of cases. It includes examples based on real cases and flowchart diagrams to illustrate Prevent in a mental health context.
(Edited publisher abstract)
This guidance is designed to support providers and staff working in NHS mental health services to exercise their statutory and professional duties to safeguard vulnerable adults, children and young people at risk of radicalisation. It sets out expectations and considerations that providers and professionals should take into account. It is structured into four key components: Prevent responsibilities of mental health providers – outlining the safeguarding pathways that should be in place, the roles and responsibilities of key staff and training requirements; Prevent referrals from mental health providers – outlining the processes for referring to Prevent and working in partnership with police; Role of mental health providers in the Prevent process – outlining information sharing and considerations relating to detention under the Mental Health Act; and Referrals into mental health services from Prevent – ensuring timely access to services to those at risk of radicalisation with mental health needs and considerations for the prioritisation of cases. It includes examples based on real cases and flowchart diagrams to illustrate Prevent in a mental health context.
(Edited publisher abstract)
Subject terms:
mental health services, NHS, safeguarding children, safeguarding adults, mental health problems, terrorism, risk, interagency cooperation, police;
Argues that the government's NHS modernisation agenda has exposed serious skills shortages across child and adolescent mental health services. At a time when ministers are calling for an end to "old-fashioned demarcations" between mental health professions, he suggests we need to think imaginatively and creatively about how to provide effective training.
Argues that the government's NHS modernisation agenda has exposed serious skills shortages across child and adolescent mental health services. At a time when ministers are calling for an end to "old-fashioned demarcations" between mental health professions, he suggests we need to think imaginatively and creatively about how to provide effective training.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, mental health services, NHS, training, young people, child and adolescent mental health services, children;
Looks at Care Trusts in Bradford, Camden and Islington, and Northumberland to see how they have developed in their first year of operation. Also examines their impact on the health and social care relationship.
Looks at Care Trusts in Bradford, Camden and Islington, and Northumberland to see how they have developed in their first year of operation. Also examines their impact on the health and social care relationship.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, learning disabilities, mental health problems, NHS, organisational structure, social services, social work, social care provision, social workers, staff development, training, care trusts, health;
Exposition of the all Wales strategy which should be seen as a ten year programme aimed at establishing a high quality and effective service for child and adolescent mental health services across Wales. The approach takes account of other initiatives to tackle social exclusion and the strategy is also compatible with government measures to raise and monitor standards in services through mechanisms in clinical governance and initiatives that include best value. Contents include: the aims, objectives and principles of this strategy; the nature and scale of the problem; the strategic plan for CAMHS in Wales; delivering the plan for Wales; the roles of the major sectors of care in delivering the plan; the agenda for change; effectiveness; research; personal and workforce planning; financial resources to implement the strategy.
Exposition of the all Wales strategy which should be seen as a ten year programme aimed at establishing a high quality and effective service for child and adolescent mental health services across Wales. The approach takes account of other initiatives to tackle social exclusion and the strategy is also compatible with government measures to raise and monitor standards in services through mechanisms in clinical governance and initiatives that include best value. Contents include: the aims, objectives and principles of this strategy; the nature and scale of the problem; the strategic plan for CAMHS in Wales; delivering the plan for Wales; the roles of the major sectors of care in delivering the plan; the agenda for change; effectiveness; research; personal and workforce planning; financial resources to implement the strategy.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, joint working, local authorities, mental health problems, NHS, monitoring, performance evaluation, planning, social exclusion, social care provision, staff management, staffing levels, adolescence, best value, child and adolescent mental health services, children;
This article describes how Thurrock Council Social Services Department and South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust launched a joint initiative to develop an integrated service strategy and implementation plan for older people's mental health services in Thurrock. The main principles of the approach were: service user and carer involvement, the active participation of mental health professionals working directly with service users and carers, representatives from all key agencies involved in the planning process.
This article describes how Thurrock Council Social Services Department and South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust launched a joint initiative to develop an integrated service strategy and implementation plan for older people's mental health services in Thurrock. The main principles of the approach were: service user and carer involvement, the active participation of mental health professionals working directly with service users and carers, representatives from all key agencies involved in the planning process.
Subject terms:
integrated services, interagency cooperation, joint working, mental health problems, mental health services, NHS, NHS trusts, older people, social services, user participation, carers, community mental health services, dementia;
A care programme approach can be the cause of bed-blocking in acute psychiatric wards. This article explains how one trust has revised its policy to avoid delays in discharge.
A care programme approach can be the cause of bed-blocking in acute psychiatric wards. This article explains how one trust has revised its policy to avoid delays in discharge.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, mental health problems, mental health services, NHS, models, NHS trusts, hospital admission, hospital discharge, policy, assessment, care management, care programme approach, community mental health teams;
Eleven briefing papers: keys to engagement, review of services; open all hours, twenty four hour response for emergencies; implications of the consultation paper 'partnership in action'; acute problems; briefing on the new mental health strategy; a first class mental health service; conclusions of the first annual mental health forum; national service framework for mental health; taking your partners, using interagency cooperation; finding and keeping, review of recruitment and retention; implications of the NHS plan.
Eleven briefing papers: keys to engagement, review of services; open all hours, twenty four hour response for emergencies; implications of the consultation paper 'partnership in action'; acute problems; briefing on the new mental health strategy; a first class mental health service; conclusions of the first annual mental health forum; national service framework for mental health; taking your partners, using interagency cooperation; finding and keeping, review of recruitment and retention; implications of the NHS plan.
Subject terms:
interagency cooperation, joint working, mental health problems, mental health services, NHS, quality assurance, recruitment, severe mental health problems, staffing levels, standards, user participation, voluntary organisations, acute psychiatric care, best value, crisis intervention, emergency services, evaluation;