Mental Health

News, practice information and opinion on mental health social work

Mental Health

Mental health patients failed by ‘unsafe’ crisis care system, CQC finds

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Mental Health

AMHPs could be regulated by CQC to tackle inconsistent monitoring by councils

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Adults, Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty: Court ruling leaves councils struggling to find representatives for people lacking capacity

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Mental Health

Rise in mental health bed occupancy

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Adults, Mental Health

Woman wins £27,000 payout over care package row between council and NHS

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Mental Health

Government quells fears it could scrap coalition’s mental health funding pledge

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Mental Health

More mental health cuts inevitable without funding reform, warns boss of under-fire trust

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Adults, Children, Mental Health

Lessons for social work practice from people’s stories of poverty

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Mental Health

Government sets out £15m plan to cut use of police cells for mental health patients

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Supporting women with alcohol issues: what social workers need to know

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Adults, Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty safeguards caseloads rose ten-fold in year after Supreme Court ruling

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Mental Health, Workforce

‘We’re shining a light on the everyday life of people with mental health difficulties’

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

‘Open dialogue is an opportunity for post-psychiatry evolution not anti-psychiatry revolution’

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Children, Mental Health

‘We must do more to support the mental health and wellbeing of care leavers’

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Adults, Children, Mental Health, Events, Legal, Workforce

Find your inner legal eagle at Community Care Live 2015

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Adults, Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty: Law Commission eyes ‘simpler’ system to protect rights

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