Service User’s Christmas Party 2017 Stanley Street Openshaw All Welcome !
The Service Users Christmas Party will be held once again on
Thursday 14th December 2017 at Stanley Street Working Men’s Club Openshaw 7:30pm until 11 pm
Police reveal ‘unlawful’ mental health detentions
By Ross HawkinsPolitical correspondent, BBC Radio 4 Today Police chiefs in England and Wales say they may be unlawfully detaining arrested people needing mental health care more than 2,000 times a year. Some people have been held in police cells for several days because there is no hospital bed for them, the National Police […]
Who pays the penalty when mental health services fail?
Moira Tombs will be speaking at Community Care Live London in September about how the mental health system let her down. Her shocking story will make you re-evaluate what you know about safeguarding
I have personal experience of being the subject of a safeguarding alert. My story highlights why the six guiding principles of safeguarding (empowerment, prevention, proportionality, protection, partnership and accountability) matter and how failing to put them into practice can be so costly.
Pushing people to the brink of suicide: the reality of benefit assessments
Department for Work and Pensions assessments are damaging people’s lives. And they don’t even provide the predicted savings
Department for Work and Pensions assessments are damaging people’s lives. And they don’t even provide the predicted savings
A guide to writing your first mental health tribunal report
What are social circumstances reports and how should you go about completing one? A mental health social worker offers advice
What are social circumstances reports and how should you go about completing one? A mental health social worker offers advice
PIP investigation: 100 cases, and still DWP refuses to accept the dishonest truth
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied there is any dishonesty among the healthcare professionals who carry out its benefits assessments, even though Disability News Service (DNS) has now collected 100 cases where such allegations have been made.
Mental health beds cut over safety failures
By: Ellen Coyne Eight of the 14 acute mental health beds covering Waterford and Wexford will be closed because of serious concerns that the service is unsafe for more than six people. The mental health unit at University Hospital Waterford was almost shut down because of a failure to comply with basic standards of […]
Stepped Down ? Do not suffer in silence Review in progress
Review of Stepping Down!!
Losing benefit, Bus passes, Support and Supervision, Charged £20 for GP letters?
Mental health patient jailed 16 years for double stabbing
A patient who stabbed two members of staff at a mental health facility has been jailed for 16-years.
Fruits, Vegetables May Help Boost Mental Health
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A new research found that increasing fruit and vegetable consumption may improve psychological well-being in as little as 2 weeks.
