<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Mental health information and news from Community Care</title><link>http://www.communitycare.co.uk</link><description>Read the latest mental health information and mental health news from Community Care.</description><language>en-gb</language><copyright>Reed Business Information, 2006</copyright><generator /><lastBuildDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:34:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title>Invitation for Expressions of Interest:  The provision of mental health housing related support service and housing</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108221/invitation-for-expressions-of-interest-the-provision-of-mental-health-housing-related-support-service-and-housing.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108221/invitation-for-expressions-of-interest-the-provision-of-mental-health-housing-related-support-service-and-housing.html</guid><description>Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to provide Mental Health Housing Related Support (HRS) Services and / or Accomodation for twenty-six (26) units of Housing for people with mental ill health.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Prisons campaigner found dead at daughter's grave</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108202/news-round-up-prisons-campaigner-found-dead-at-daughters-grave.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108202/news-round-up-prisons-campaigner-found-dead-at-daughters-grave.html</guid><description>Other headlines in today's papers include: Tories launch new group to tackle homelessness; 'Ladette' culture sees jump in crimes by girls; Woman beat to death her grandmother to stop inheritance being spent on care bills</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Prisons campaigner found dead at her daughter's grave</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108204/prisons-campaigner-found-dead-at-her-daughters-grave.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/16/108204/prisons-campaigner-found-dead-at-her-daughters-grave.html</guid><description>Other headlines in today's papers include: Tories launch new group to tackle homelessness; 'Ladette' culture sees jump in crimes by girls; Woman beat to death her grandmother to stop inheritance being spent on care bills</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:13:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CC Live: Beresford challenges justice agencies on hate crime</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108194/cc-live-beresford-challenges-justice-agencies-on-hate-crime.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108194/cc-live-beresford-challenges-justice-agencies-on-hate-crime.html</guid><description>The criminal justice system should do more to encourage vulnerable adults to come forward to report abuse, Community Care Live heard yesterday.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 13:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CC Live session sparks debate over merits of personalisation</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108192/cc-live-session-sparks-debate-over-merits-of-personalisation.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/15/108192/cc-live-session-sparks-debate-over-merits-of-personalisation.html</guid><description>Social workers were challenged to stop managing service users' live at Community Care Live yesterday, in a session which sparked a heated debate on the merits of the government's personalisation agenda for adult care.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CC Live: Mind bids for better debt support for mental health users</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/14/108182/cc-live-mind-bids-for-better-debt-support-for-mental-health-users.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/14/108182/cc-live-mind-bids-for-better-debt-support-for-mental-health-users.html</guid><description>Mental health charity Mind today called for better regulation of banks, lenders and bailiffs in order to help people with mental illness who are at risk of debt.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 12:14:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>House of Commons lobby held for sacked nurse Karen Reissmann</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108175/house-of-commons-lobby-held-for-sacked-nurse-karen-reissmann.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108175/house-of-commons-lobby-held-for-sacked-nurse-karen-reissmann.html</guid><description>Health workers, patients and union activists have marched on parliament in protest against the sacking of Manchester community psychiatric nurse Karen Reissmann, allegedly for speaking out against service cuts.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Community orders 'fail to cut number of women prisoners'</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108174/community-orders-fail-to-cut-number-of-women-prisoners.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/13/108174/community-orders-fail-to-cut-number-of-women-prisoners.html</guid><description>The use of new community orders and suspended sentences has failed to reduce the number of women being sent to prison, according to a Centre for Crime and Justice Studies report. </description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 11:33:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mind: People with mental health problems are struggling with debt</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108163/mind-people-with-mental-health-problems-are-struggling-with-debt.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/12/108163/mind-people-with-mental-health-problems-are-struggling-with-debt.html</guid><description>People with mental health problems are struggling with debt to the detriment of their conditions, Mind warned today in a report to launch its annual awareness week.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Number of Asbos issued drops by a third</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/09/108153/number-of-asbos-issued-drops-by-a-third.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/09/108153/number-of-asbos-issued-drops-by-a-third.html</guid><description>Other stories in today's papers include: Paedophile escapes jail for abusing girl, 11, after judge says 'she welcomed sex'</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>News round up: Number of Asbos issued drops by a third</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/09/108152/news-round-up-number-of-asbos-issued-drops-by-a-third.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/09/108152/news-round-up-number-of-asbos-issued-drops-by-a-third.html</guid><description>Other stories in today's papers include: Paedophile escapes jail for abusing girl, 11, after judge says 'she welcomed sex'</description><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 09:03:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Personalisation and self-directed support: In Control findings</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/08/108148/personalisation-and-self-directed-support-in-control-findings.html</link><guid 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survivors</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/08/108141/news-round-up-ministers-pledge-77m-for-stroke-survivors.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/08/108141/news-round-up-ministers-pledge-77m-for-stroke-survivors.html</guid><description>Other headlines in today's papers include: Man, 23, becomes 20th Bridgend suicide victim; Obesity increases the risk of dementia</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:11:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mental Health</title><link>http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/08/105464/mental-health.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2008/05/08/105464/mental-health.html</guid><description>Practice section</description><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 08:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>