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Me when I cheer mummy up by dancing
- Author:
- JACKSON Catherine
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Today, May 2008, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Place of publication:
- Hove
Up to half of all mental health service users are parents of children under the age of 18, yet this aspect of their lives is often ignored by both adult mental health services and local authority children's services. This article highlights the importance of closer working between mental health and children's services. It also highlights initiatives currently operating in this area.
Improving opportunities and outcomes for parents with mental health needs and their children
- Authors:
- FOWLER Rebecca, ROBINSON Barbara, SCOTT Sara
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
The government’s 2004 Mental Health and Social Exclusion Action Plan identified parents with mental health problems and their children as one of the groups most likely to face barriers to getting their health and social care needs addressed. The section in this plan which addressed the needs of this group was Action 16. This report analyses the work of the Action 16 outcomes partnership 2005-2008, which aimed to find ways of improving opportunities and outcomes for parents with mental health needs and their children. It provides an overview of the Action 16 programme of work, its objectives and activities, and a contextual analysis of the extent of its success in achieving them. Information for the review was gathered from key documents, including policies and interviews with key stakeholders. The key message of the Action 16 programme was ‘think family’. This report describes how, through awareness-raising, sharing and disseminating knowledge and developing resources for positive practice, the Action 16 programme has influenced emerging policies and work-streams across children's and adult services to focus more clearly on improving outcomes for families.
Safeguarding children across services: messages from research on identifying and responding to child maltreatment: messages for adult services professionals working with parents: adult mental health, drug and alcohol misuse and domestic abuse...services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department for Education
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines key messages and practice implications for adult services professionals working with parents involved in the child safeguarding process. The briefing draws on 15 government-funded research projects on safeguarding children from neglect and abuse in England and Wales. Headline messages are presented in bullet point format. Other key messages are discussed under the headings: how to better protect children from maltreatment; acting decisively and confidently; effective parent-focused intervention; and working with other services and agencies.
Parental mental health and families: managing complexity and leading practice
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This e-learning module aims to help front-line and strategic managers to implement the 'Think Child, think parent, think family' approach. Sections one and two provide front line managers with a range of audit tools to help them gauge the readiness of their staff to implement the ‘Think Family’ guidance. Section three, strategic management, identifies the key drivers needed by strategic managers to target action at a local level , identify the barriers to change and potential solutions.
Social work with children when parents have mental health difficulties: acknowledging vulnerability and maintaining the “rights of the child”
- Author:
- MONDS-WATSON Aisling
- Journal article citation:
- Child Care in Practice, 16(1), January 2010, pp.35-55.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) outlines 40 substantive rights have been applied, without discrimination, to all children in the United Kingdom since 1992. However, events have highlighted the potential vulnerability of some children when their parents experience mental health difficulties and many children affected by parental mental illness remain a hidden population. Article 3 of the UNCRC states: “All organisations concerned with children should work towards what is best for each child” - leaving social workers to occupy a critical position in safeguarding the UNCRC, particularly in situations where mental health problems are having an negative impact on parenting, and where children are in need or at risk. Collaboration between Mental Health and Family & Child Care services can be problematic, where poorly-integrated service provision is constrained by scarce resources and training, and complicated by a dichotomy between the human rights of parents and the convention rights of children, which can contribute to unfortunate outcomes for these most vulnerable families. This article, highlighting the potential psychological vulnerability of children living in a situation where one or both parents experience mental health difficulties, examines evidence regarding the scale and impact of parental mental health difficulties, and discusses in the context of the UNCRC the key findings of recent Child Protection Inspections and Health & Social Care inquiries in Northern Ireland. The author draws on relevant literature to consider the problems associated with effective social work practice with these families, and concludes by making recommendations to enhance effective social care provision for children in families experiencing parental mental health difficulties.