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Social services provision
- Author:
- POWELL Roland
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Fact sheet setting out what services social services departments provide for people with mental health problems.
Reaching out
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.4.95, 1995, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a pioneering outreach initiative in Haringey, aimed at hard-to-reach clients in the community.
Direct support
- Author:
- LINEHAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.2.95, 1995, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A scheme has been set up in West Dorset to help offenders with mental health problems. Mendos, the Mentally Disordered Offenders Scheme discovered quite soon after its establishment that women in this situation had been ignored. Looks at a new initiative to provide a service to women.
A bright new future for mental health service users in Inverness
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Integrate News, 51, January 1995, pp.20-21.
Describes the services offered by Birchwood House in Inverness, a unique nursing home development for people recovering form mental illness.
Tapping into experience
- Author:
- ROWLEY David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.1.95, 1995, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how Suffolk SSD's pilot project to give community care users input into training has broken down barriers with practitioners.
Supplementary credit approval for the development of social care services for people with a mental illness
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular inviting bids from local authorities for extra money for developing services for people with mental health problems.
Personal social services local authority statistics: residential accommodation for people with mental illness and people with learning disabilities; local authority supported residents, year ending 31 March 1994. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 57p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Impact of the Mental Illness Specific Grant in the Northern Region
- Author:
- BARNES Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 7(1), 1995, pp.19-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Summarises the findings of a research study into the use of the Mental Illness Specific Grant in the north of England between 1991 and 1993. Charts the opportunities and achievements of the grant which has supported over 90 community mental health projects in the region, but while the success of the policy is undeniable, its short term nature raises issues for the service users in this very unresourced area of community care.
Morale matters
- Author:
- Newton Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.11.95, 1995, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Health and social services must work together more closely if mental health care management is to succeed. Reports on new research.
Building community services: the mental illness specific grant; a review of the first four years, 1991 - 1994
- Author:
- BARNES Di
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 119p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report reviewing literature on the mental illness specific grant, providing quantitative information on MISG usage and expenditure, recording service users perceptions of the projects they use, highlighting aspects of good practice, and summarising issues arising from the study.