Briefing 36: Police and mental health
This briefing calls on the NHS to manage health care for people in police custody and to take a more active role in diverting people with mental health problems to the services they need.
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Briefing 35: Evening the odds
Specialist mental health employment support staff need to adopt an evidence-based approach with the capacity to address issues of racism and stigma.
From the inside
It sets out what prisoners themselves say they need to improve their mental health: ‘someone to talk to’, ‘something to do’ during the day and practical help to plan for what they will do after they are released.
About time
About Time is the first step-by-step guide that shows how day and vocational services can make radical changes to offer people the support they need to build the lives they want to live.
Making recovery a reality
Recovery turns mental health services’ priorities on their heads. Mental health services need to demonstrate success in helping service users to get their lives back.
Mental health at work: developing the business case
At any one time one worker in six will be experiencing depression, anxiety or problems relating to stress. The total cost to employers is estimated at £1,035 for every employee in the UK workforce.
We Need To Talk
We Need To Talk examines the provision of psychological therapies and calls on the Government to provide psychological therapy through the NHS in line with NICE guidance.
Feeling good: promoting children’s mental health
These activity sheets provide parents and their children aged 4 to 7 with a unique resource to help them talk about how they feel and what makes them happy or sad, stressed or secure.
Economic and social costs of mental illness in England
Mental illness costs us more as a society than crime, and this policy paper calculates what the economic and social costs of mental illness are.