November 2007 Newsletter
Dear Friends,
There’s a lot in this newsletter –looking back to a highly successful study day, seeking your engagement with consultations on the Mental Health Act Code of Practice and Race Impact Assessment on the Care Programme approach, getting you to think about spirituality and its place in mental health, pondering how we deliver race equality and culturally competent services, and a poem about the experience of being an inpatient.
Recovery and Diversity Study Day
The study day was a great success. Raza’s piece captures some of the energy around that day at Friends Meeting House , London. We hope to get out the publication from the day before Christmas and it will be well worth reading and reflecting on the many issues raised.
Mental Health Code of Practice Update
The Mental Health Act Code of Practice is finally out for consultation. It lasts to 24 January 2008. The draft and relevant documents can be viewed here
A paper summarising responses to the draft will be published in early April 2007. The Code is set to come into force from October 2008. Get your views heard in the consultation on the guidance given to practitioners in their application of the Mental Health Act by Raza Griffiths
CPA Review Equality Impact Assessment
Still in consultation mode we want views on the equality impact assessment being undertaken as part of the Care Programme Approach review process.
Will the new CPA review will adversely affect people from diverse communities. Deadline for feedback is 9 November Read the consultation brief , consultation questionnaire and if you have time, the proposal in full
Implications of new PSA in relation to social exclusion
And while we are acronym-happy take a look at the website piece on the implications of the new PSA (Public Service agreement) in relation to social exclusion. Yes it does matter because it could affect how your practice is evaluated
Race Equality and Cultural Capability
Peter Ferns contributes the first of a series of pieces reflecting on Race Equality and Cultural capability. Triggered in part by the SPN study day Peter’s article is a fascinating exploration of the different ways in which we all interpret culture in the context of working with minorities.
The Om Factor
Following a visit to a Buddhist Monastery, a service user gives a personal view of using Buddhist insights to manage mental distress
A new coming off medication initiative
Rufus May, speaker at SPN's Recovery study day, writes here about a new website he is involved in setting up that is about ways to approach reducing or coming off medication.
Poem
And finally a poem. Do read Tracey Hayes to whom we are grateful for letting us reproduce her work
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