Mental Health

News, practice information and opinion on mental health social work

Adults, Mental Health

Government to face legal challenge over deprivation of liberty safeguards funding

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Mental Capacity Act

Adults, Mental Health

‘How proposals to reform deprivation of liberty have been pared back to cut costs’

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Frustrated by media portrayals of social work, I invited a journalist to see what we do…

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Adults, Mental Health

Best interests assessor role could be axed to cut costs of deprivation of liberty system

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Adults, Mental Health

How one area’s mental health teams are tackling the ‘scandal’ of out-of-area care

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Mental Health

More mental health patients sent hundreds of miles for care due to local bed shortages

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Adults, Children, Workforce, Mental Health

Record numbers of social workers set to attend Community Care Live Birmingham

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Adults, Mental Health

Southern Health leadership under fire after CQC finds ‘serious’ patient safety concerns

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Children, Mental Health

Children in care denied mental health services because of placement ‘uncertainty’

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Adults, Mental Health

“There’s no way my granddaughter is going to know me as that ‘old alkie'”

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Adults, Mental Health, Workforce

Government to introduce national AMHP accreditation system

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Adults, Mental Health

NHS to bankroll development of Shared Lives support for adults in England

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Mental Health

Deprivation of liberty court cases triple but fall short of Cheshire West predictions

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recovery

Adults, Children, Workforce, Mental Health

‘Addiction deceives the best of us – and doggedly tests my recovery’

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Adults, Mental Health

‘She deserves to live somewhere where she is happy’

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Mental Health, Children

Hampshire to become national coordinator of secure children’s home placements

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