SPN UPDATE
CITY PAROCHIAL FUND
SPN begins the New Year with the good news that it has been awarded funding by City Parochial Fund (CPF) to support diverse communities and the personalisation agenda in London.
Thanks to a two year grant from (CPF), SPN has appointed a London Project Officer to develop the mental health agenda in London around personalisation and support black and minority ethnic (BME) and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The project officer will also help the mental health voluntary and community sector promote its work through campaigns, research and use the media and will promote the development of service user led services and support in London.
Raza Griffiths, one of the current SPN Joint Project Co-ordinators, will be stepping into the 2.5 day a week role of London Project Officer at the end of the month. “This is a terrific opportunity to develop mental health personalisation in the capital and focus more closely on the complex and urgent mental health issues faced by BME and LGBT communities in what is probably the most diverse city in the world”, he said.
Click here to find out more about Raza.
SPN NEWSLETTER
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We’re delighted to have Kate Summerside helping us out with our newsletter. Kate will be keeping us updated of developments in policy and practice and opportunities for promoting and including social perspectives on mental health. The newsletter will also highlight the projects, initiatives and research of partners and others whose work and agenda intersects with SPN’s. Kate has around 20 years expertise in communications, campaigning and public affairs, primarily for the voluntary sector. As Head of Communications at Mental Health Media she managed the Media Bureau, a project training and supporting mental health service users wanting to engage with the media. She brings both her professional knowledge and direct experience of using mental health services.
SPN EVENTS AND STUDY DAYS
PERSONALISATION FOR ALL? PERSONALISATION AND DIVERSITY STUDY DAY 30 MARCH 2010
SPN’s next study day, Personalisation for All which takes place in Manchester on 30 March will focus on how to best ensure that people from marginalised communities experience the positive potential of the personalisation agenda.
While primarily addressing issues for people from black, minority ethnic, lesbian, bisexual and gay communities, the study day will also refer to the mental health issues faced by a range of marginalised groups.
Raza Griffiths, SPN Joint Project Co-ordinator, who is organising the event, said “There is much that needs to change to ensure that personalisation meets the needs of a range of marginalised communities, whose current mental health outcomes and experience of services is a cause for concern. These are people who are multiply marginalised, firstly, as mental health service users, and secondly, as people from black and minority ethnic, lesbian and gay or other marginalised group”. It’s vital that marginalised communities engage now with the personalisation agenda so they do not lose out on the potential for positive change. It is also imperative that services, commissioners and agencies involved in developing personalisation in mental health, listen to what they are saying and do not shy away from making the profound cultural changes needed to make personalisation a reality”.
The event is taking place at the Methodist Central Hall in Manchester on the 30th March 2010. Click here to find out more.
We have an early bird price of £95 that is valid until February 14th 2010. For more information, click here to book yourself a place.
This study day is being led by Social Perspectives Network with assistance from Black Health Forum Manchester, and is being financed by Department of Health. The day follows on from SPN’s successful study day held in Northampton in July. The report of the study day can be read here
THINK FAMILY - NEW MODELS OF PRACTICE STUDY DAY APRIL 2010 IN BIRMINGHAM
The next SPN study day will consider Thinking Family in troubled times. In the context of SCIE’s Think child, think parent, think family guidelines and the DCSF Think Family guidance and toolkit, how do practitioners across the disciplines and service users and carers make sense of this?
This event will address these questions from a variety of perspectives, and we are currently looking for people to get involved in shaping the event by being part of a virtual planning group and / or contributing to the day. If this might be you please contact Vicky with your views.
PUBLIC POLICY, CONSULTATIONS AND GUIDANCE
DCSF
GOVERNMENT’S FULL RESPONSE TO INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF CAMHS (CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES)’s REPORT KEEPING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN MIND’ - PUBLISHED 7TH JAN 2010
The CAMHS Review was an independent review which was commissioned by the Government in 2007. The Review represented an opportunity to look at how services were meeting the education, health and social needs of children and young people at risk of, and experiencing, mental health problems, and to see how universal and specialist services might be improved for children and young people with mental health needs and their families. The Review’s final report Keeping Children and Young People in Mind was published in October 2008. It found that local services have made significant progress in recent years, but that more needed to be done to improve the consistency, accessibility and suitability of services. The Review contained 20 recommendations for Government.
Ed Balls and Alan Johnson welcomed the review and set out the Government’s initial response to each of the review’s 20 recommendations in a summary document. On 7 January 2010 the Government's full response to the review was published. The summary document and full response can be viewed by visiting here.
JAN 2010 PROMOTING THE EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE: GUIDANCE FOR CHILDREN'S TRUSTS PARTNERSHIPS, INCLUDING HOW TO DELIVER NI50
The guidance contains a detailed service specification (using evidence-based approaches) that sets out the core support and services for children, young people and families, representing a comprehensive, strategic approach to promoting emotional health. Click on this link.
COMMISSIONING EARLY INTERVENTION SUPPORT SERVICES: GUIDANCE FOR COMMISSIONERS
The purpose of the fourth proxy guidance is to provide clarity to local authorities (LAs) and Primary care trusts (PCTs) about what this new indicator (point 4 of PSA 12 joint commissioning of mental-health promotion and early-intervention support.)is intended to monitor and how it should be rated, and to build on current technical guidance. The guidance also aims to pull together good practice and provide guidelines for LAs, PCTs, government offices (GOs) and strategic health authorities (SHAs) to support the delivery of quality advice, support and guidance on the delivery of the fourth proxy, specifically on joint commissioning of early-intervention support, improving the psychological wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. Click here to download a copy.
WORKING TOGETHER TO SAFEGUARD CHILDREN
A revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children is currently open for consultation on the DCSF consultations site. The consultation closes on 11 February 2010. This revised draft guidance addresses 17 of Lord Laming's recommendations In The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report, as indicated in the National Safeguarding Delivery Unit's earlier pre-consultation. The revised draft also updates the guidance to reflect changes to the policy and legislative landscape since Working Together was last published in 2006. It is addressed to all practitioners and front-line managers who have particular responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and to senior and operational managers in organisations that are responsible for commissioning or providing services to children, young people, parents and carers. Download the draft here.
THE NATIONAL INFORMATION GOVERNANCE BOARD FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE (NIGB) ISSUES GUIDANCE ON CHANGING HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RECORDS
NIGB, the health and social care records watchdog, has published its advice to patients on how to get amendments made to their health and social care records if they believe they contain an error. The watchdog’s guidance also has a section for professionals on how to deal with requests to change the content of the records. Click here to download the booklet.
NEW RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
THE NHS FEDERATION PUBLISHES PERSONAL HEALTH BUDGETS – A VIEW FROM THE TOP REPORT
This report presents the opinions of local health and social care leaders on the future of personal health budgets, portraying their understanding of the key issues, as well as their expectations, hopes and doubts. Click here to view. SPN will be publishing its response to this report in next month’s newsletter.
AT YOUR SERVICE: NAVIGATING THE FUTURE MARKET IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE – Demos
In-depth analysis undertaken by Demos and the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University of the views of people who use social care services who are likely to become holders of personal budgets.
EXPLORING IMPACT: PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT IN NHS, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE RESEARCH LAUNCHED BY INVOLVE NOVEMBER 2009
This new INVOLVE report, with which SPN was involved, was launched on Friday 6th November 2009 by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development at the Department of Health. The report explores the impact of public involvement through an in-depth review of published literature. It draws together a wealth of examples of how public involvement is conducted, and what difference it is making. But it also raises questions of the quality of the evidence for the impact of such involvement, revealing huge variation in how this is assessed and reported and highlighting difficulties in judging it or drawing general conclusions. You can download a copy of the full report here
NEWS FROM SPN’s PARTNERS AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS
NEW LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP AND EFFECTIVE WORKING FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL WORK IN MENTAL HEALTH - A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED APPROACH DEVELOPED BY SCIE AND NMHDU (National Mental Health Development Unit)
Commencing in September 2010 this new national support programme focuses on the pivotal role of leadership in successfully implementing recent legal reform and ensuring that the new powers of Approved Mental Health Professionals and their professional leaders are used wisely. For further information please contac by emailing Marketa Simonova
THE NATIONAL SPIRITUALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH FORUM GENERAL OPEN MEETING: PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES TO SPIRITUALITY 4th FEBRUARY 2010
Based on research carried out at Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust, Professor Peter Gilbert, Project Lead for the Forum, will speak about the attitudes of NHS and Social Care professionals to mental health and spirituality. Most research to date in this field has focussed on only one profession e.g. nurses. The Birmingham and Solihull study is one of only two studies to look at the range of professions and staff roles including administration. The afternoon will include time for questions and discussion. The open meeting takes place from 2-4pm at St Marylebone Healing and Counselling Centre, 17 Marylebone Road, London NW1. Click here for details of the centre. Please email the Forum to let them know if you are attending.
NMHDU INVOLVEMENT NETWORK MEETINGS
NMHDU has opportunities for people with personal experience and carers in mental health to be involved in their work converting national policy in mental health and social care into active use. If you are already involved in this work, or want to find out about the work and how people are supported, the following events may interest you:
Direct Experience / Service Users: ----- Monday 1st February
Friends and Family / Carers: --------- Thursday 11th February Registration/refreshments 10.30, runs 11.00 - 3.00 including lunch - at the Head Office of Together, 12 Old Street, London EC1V 9BE. The event is free and travel and reasonable expenses are considered. Please contact Phil Partridge or by phoning 020 7820 8982 or 0845 602 0779.
MENTAL WELLBEING WEEK 2010 (MONDAY 8 – SUNDAY 14 MARCH)is a week organised by Together. For further information, please visit their website by clicking here.
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