Community Care

JULY 26, 2023

Police forces across England will, in future, stop attending mental health-related incidents unless there is a significant risk to safety or a crime being committed, and refer cases to health or social care services instead. The Metropolitan Police has estimated that its officers spend, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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Community Care

JUNE 2, 2023

Approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads have sounded the alarm over the Metropolitan Police’s decision to withdraw from attending mental health-related incidents in London by the end of August. He also said that officers spent, on average, 14.2 hours in A&E and 8.5

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. What does the guidance say?

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MQ Mental Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This week (5-11 February 2024) is Children’s Mental Health Week. The UK government recently published guidance from the department of health and social care into improving the mental health of babies, children and young people. What does the guidance say?

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Community Care

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Older people are being unlawfully detained in mental health hospitals “in very many cases” because of poor practice around the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS), the Care Quality Commission has warned. AMHPs making greater use of Mental Health Act powers to tackle crises or suspected abuse or neglect.

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MQ Mental Health

APRIL 26, 2024

One week ago, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gave a speech causing concern when it comes to words he used about mental health. Language can be powerful, particularly in regards to mental health conditions. The Conservatives recent rhetoric has provoked a strong response from charity sector leaders and health organisations.

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Community Care

JANUARY 19, 2022

The way ordinary residence is determined for mental health aftercare remains unsettled, despite the government winning a court ruling relating to its radical new approach to the issue. Learn about the government’s new approach. High Court rules against government… .

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2023

Some Court of Protection orders for professional reports on people subject to proceedings are “disproportionate, overly burdensome, and wrongly authorised”, mental health leaders have warned. Mental health trust concerns. How the government plans to implement the Liberty Protection Safeguards.

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Community Care

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Council social worker numbers have increased in Scotland but there are concerns over rising shortages of mental health officers. Growing mental health officer shortage. However, despite the increase in social worker numbers, the shortage of mental health officers has grown, revealed a separate SSSC report last week.

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Community Care

APRIL 11, 2023

The government has dropped a pledge to invest in new social work training routes as part of a halving of committed spending on developing the adult social care workforce. However, in November last year, the government announced a two-year delay to the reforms, recycling £3.2bn to help councils meet current pressures.

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Martin Webber

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The use of the Mental Health Act 1983 in England has increased considerably between 1984 and 2016. A new analysis of this trend has been published in the October edition of the British Journal of.

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

People with both types of diabetes are at a higher risk of developing  depression  and  anxiety and are at a higher risk of early mortality due to the combination of mental health and physical health comorbidities. Mental Health and Diabetes Physical illness and mental illness are often interrelated.

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Community Care

AUGUST 18, 2023

By Tim Spencer-Lane The Supreme Court has handed down its long-awaited judgment in R (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2023] UKSC 31. Tim Spencer-Lane is a lawyer specialising in adult social care, mental health and mental capacity, and is legal editor of Community Care Inform.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The government must fund better pay and training for adult social care staff to tackle a deepening workforce crisis that is undermining the quality of services. The government has also made no provision to increase pay, aside from annual increases in the national living wage, saying this was a matter for employers. BIA shortages.

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Community Care

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Reductions in Mental Health Act (MHA) detention numbers are masking increased demand for approved mental health professionals’ (AMHPs) services and unmet need for care. That was the warning from the AMHP Leads Network after official data showed that MHA detention numbers in England fell by 7.7% drop the year before.

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Community Care

MARCH 18, 2022

The LPS is the new scheme for authorising health and social care arrangements that give rise to a deprivation of liberty, replacing the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and Court of Protection authorisations of arrangements not covered by DoLS. There is as yet no implementation date for LPS.

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Community Care

OCTOBER 25, 2021

English councils need £2.7bn more in funding for children social care by 2024-25, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned, ahead of the government’s spending review this week. The LGA also urged the government to implement a cross-Whitehall strategy to support children, young people and their families.

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Community Care

MAY 12, 2024

Pursglove added: “The time is therefore right to update the code to reflect these changes…” Shelving of LPS The proposed revised code also incorporated guidance on the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), the government’s planned replacement for the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS).

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Community Care

AUGUST 8, 2023

The government is reviewing the case for giving social workers in England powers of entry in adult safeguarding cases. However, the review said that social workers “often referenced” their lack of a power of entry as a barrier to effectively protecting adults experiencing abuse at home from carers. ”

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Social Care

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Since then, the pandemic has seen social care brought to the forefront of public attention like never before and whilst reform of the sector has been long-awaited, the vital role of mental health provision still needs to be stated. Our members not only promote and support recovery, they enable people to lead fulfilling lives.

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MQ Mental Health

OCTOBER 17, 2023

World Mental Health Day falls on 10 October every year. This year the theme is ‘Mental Health is a Human Right’. In a previous article , we answered the questions like what is a human right and why is mental health one? Now we look at how our mental health is protected by human rights.

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Blurt It Out

MAY 2, 2024

Resting for our mental health does not mean that we must physically rest. We might find that we are entitled to additional financial support from the government for example, or, if we are living in accommodation that isn’t fit for purpose, that our landlord has responsibilities that they are not meeting.

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Beyond Advocacy

MAY 2, 2023

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Fittingly, addressing the mental health needs of children and youth in the United States has become an issue of bipartisan concern. A panel of experts on alternative mental health treatment provided testimony on the effectiveness of treatments other than talk therapy.

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MQ Mental Health

JUNE 29, 2023

MQ Mental Health Research and the University of Glasgow, with support from The Lord Mayor's of London, have collaborated to help the UK better respond to the mental health issues arising from the ongoing cost-of-living-crisis. How will the cost-of-living-crisis impact the mental health and wellbeing of people in the UK?

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MQ Mental Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The UK Government has announced a new ‘Vaccine Taskforce style approach’ to tackle a range of health challenges, including mental health. The mental health mission will receive over £40 million in funding for mental health research, particularly into the use of digital technologies as interventions for mental illnesses.

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Community Care

JUNE 14, 2022

The NHS remains “heavily reliant” on inappropriate out-of-area mental health hospital placements despite a government target to eliminate them by March 2021, psychiatrist leaders have warned. Proposed Mental Health Act overhaul included in Queen’s Speech. Placements increasingly far from home.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Progress on Advancing the Improving Access to Mental Health Act (H.R The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its mental health workforce discussion draft component of its mental health legislative package (a summary may be found here ).

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MQ Mental Health

AUGUST 16, 2023

Preventative measures are greatly needed to benefit future generations as well as mental health interventions to help those in need right now, particularly in LMICs (low and middle income countries) worldwide. Daniela and Liliana work with MQ on WARMI , a network of Latin American women promoting mental health care for women.

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The Masked AMHP

JULY 7, 2022

The Mental Health Act 1983 has been through a long process of review. Wessely’s Review was published in December 2018, and the Government White Paper was published in January 2021.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Supreme Court will hear a case to determine responsibility for funding mental health aftercare for certain out-of-area placements. Learn about the government’s new approach. The High Court ruled that this was not applicable to the Mental Health Act, in which there are no deeming rules. Related articles.

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The Guardian

JUNE 26, 2022

Report suggests half of all foster carers are looking after a child with complex needs Foster care in Britain is facing a “mental health crisis” because the government is failing to meet the needs of mentally ill children in care. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

JANUARY 7, 2022

Deprived of resources and beset by fatigue, no amount of individual responsibility can bear the weight of structural failure Over the course of the past year as a trainee social worker, I have spent months in residence in both a residential aged care facility and in a youth mental health service operated by a hospital in Melbourne.

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MQ Mental Health

MARCH 20, 2024

MQ has contributed to an All-party parliamentary Group report that is calling on the UK government to ‘unlock the trauma trap’ of Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs) and free the nation’s children with a population-wide public health strategy. Read the full report The post MQ joins calls for a public health strategy on trauma.

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Community Care

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Wales remains the only UK nation not to have commissioned a review of its children’s social care services, after the Welsh Government resisted calls to do so following the inquiry into Logan Mwangi’s murder. ” Call for minimum period for social work court assessments.

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Community Care

MARCH 12, 2024

Liberty Protection Safeguards shelved At the same time, the government has shelved its plan to replace DoLS with the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) until after the next election, following repeated delays to its planned implementation date. This means that DoLS will likely remain in place for the for the foreseeable future.

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Community Care

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The government has rejected an expert panel’s proposal to “severely curtail” the “inhumane” solitary confinement of people with learning disabilities and autistic people in mental health hospitals. “There is little or no accountability when services fail people. .

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Community Care

MARCH 27, 2024

A government-backed leadership training scheme has been launched for principal social workers (PSW), approved mental health professional (AMHP) leads and principal occupational therapists (POT) in adults’ services in English councils.

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