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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)
Working towards women's well-being: unfinished business
- Author:
- NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT UNIT
- Publisher:
- National Mental Health Development Unit
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 76p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Women’s Mental Health: Into the Mainstream (2002) described the mental health needs of women and, with its companion report Mainstreaming Gender and Women’s Mental Health: Implementing Guidance (2003), set out the necessary steps to improve services to meet their distinct needs. Underpinning these recommendations was the principle that gender-awareness should be integrated or mainstreamed into all planning, commissioning, developing, delivering and evaluating of mental health services. The report brings together an account of progress on implementation of the recommendations in providing gender-specific and gender-sensitive mental health services to meet the needs of women. It determines that developments in gender-specific service provision remain patchy, variable and vulnerable, although some significant advances have been made in recognising women’s special needs. The report draws upon 2 national surveys (in 2006 and 2007) of mental health trusts, a wide range of relevant government and national reports and evaluations, and evidence and observations from service users and third sector organisations. This report is likely to be of relevance to policy makers, commissioners, and service providers.
Services for people with learning disabilities
- Author:
- LINDSEY Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 5(2), June 2000, pp.5-14.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Looks at the services available for people with learning difficulties and mental health problems, and argues that generic services are often insufficient.
A framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems
- Author:
- McCOLLAM Allyson
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review, 3(3), September 1998, pp.6-13.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
Trends in housing policy and housing development over the last ten years have created a growing tension between the community care housing agenda and wider housing policies. In mental health, as the pattern of service provision across the UK has moved away from the more traditional institutional models of care, there continues to be an urgent need to develop stable and sustainable housing provision linked to effective support based on individual needs. Describes a framework for the development of housing services for people with mental health problems in Scotland.
Rejected referrals: looked after children and care leavers' access to child and adolescent mental health services
- Author:
- KIRKMAN Maddy
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's Scotland
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 28
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report explores looked after children and care leavers’ access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). It discusses four barriers of accessing services: a lack of stability in children’s lives; lack of engagement; symptoms not severe enough and lack of clarity around referral criteria; and an assumption that a service already being provided by another organisation. The report found that children with care experience and care leavers are disproportionately affected by rejected referrals to CAMHS services. It also found that many care experienced children and young people do not receive the services they need. This can be due to the types of therapy available not being suitable for their needs of the care experienced population who are more likely to be struggling with mental health problems as a result of trauma and aspects of policy and practice within CAMHS services that create additional barriers for care experienced children and care leavers. The report makes recommendations for policy and practice looks at the roles agencies, practitioners and policy makers can play in implementing positive change. (Edited publisher abstract)
Comparison of adults with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems admitted to specialist and generic inpatient units
- Authors:
- HEMMINGS C.P., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 37(2), June 2009, pp.123-128.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This study aimed to compare the characteristics of service users with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems admitted to either a specialist or a generic inpatient unit in an area of South London. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of consecutive admissions over a 5.5-year period were recorded using a questionnaire. Key differences in psychiatric diagnosis, residence type and discharge destination were found between individuals using generic and specialist provision. Length of stay was significantly longer for specialist unit admissions. Admissions to the specialist unit were significantly more likely to reside with family prior to admission and admissions to generic units were significantly more likely to come from 'other' forms of residence such as hostels, prison and 'no fixed abode'. At discharge the proportion of those admitted to the specialist unit who resided with their families reduced. At the same time the proportion of those living in supported accommodation increased although compared with those admitted to generic units they were still significantly more likely to return to the family home. Significantly, more adults admitted to generic units were diagnosed with an affective disorder. Specialist inpatient provision may be crucial in helping mainstream services meet the needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems.
Dementia and well-being: possibilities and challenges
- Author:
- COOK Ailsa
- Publisher:
- Dunedin Academic Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 90p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In recent years, policy and legislation in both England and Scotland has sought to promote the well-being of users of health and social care services, such as people with dementia. Most recent policy across the UK has identified key objectives, attainment of which is essential to the well-being of service users as governments have introduced a range of initiatives to ensure that services deliver good outcomes to service users. To date, however, there has been very little consideration of how inclusive this agenda is to people with dementia. Ailsa Cook addresses this gap by reviewing critically recent health and social care policy in Scotland and England in light of the growing body of empirical research into the experiences and perspectives of people with dementia. She draws on this evidence to consider the particular challenges associated with delivering four key outcomes to people with dementia identified by policy makers as fundamental to well-being. These are: independence, health, choice and social inclusion. The book examines the potential for current policy proposals to meet the needs of people with diverse experiences of dementia and considers the particular issues relating to including people with dementia as partners in policy and practice - a key principle underpinning all health and social care. In so doing the book contributes a much needed policy perspective to the field of dementia, as well as providing a fresh lens through which to consider the difference that proposed policies can make to a diverse range of service users. Intended as a text for Dementia Studies and gerontology students the specific focus of this book on the inter-relationship of policy and dementia ensures its place as a key reference for policy makers and administrators assessing the impact of policies, both implemented and proposed.
For better or worse?
- Author:
- CARLISE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 20.6.02, 2002, p.40.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Discusses whether the framework for mental health has created a scramble to meet targets rather than users' needs.
Don't look now
- Author:
- BURROWS Gideon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.11.01, 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Mental Health Foundation estimates there are up to 20,000 regular street drinkers in towns across the UK. For many of the street drinkers inadequate housing, poverty, and poor mental health are related to the root causes of their drinking. However, because many of them do not fall under categories such as homeless, they are often ignored by service providers. Investigates why this is the case.
Developing services for people with mental health problems in the New Deal for Disabled People personal adviser pilots
- Authors:
- GORDON Janet, MILLS Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 5(3), August 2001, pp.9-15.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors, from the Employment Service, describe and reflect on some of the lesson from innovative ways of partnership working in the New Deal for Disabled People pilots.