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Harming not Healing
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Power Up!
Making it Personal
The Challenges of the Big Society
£3M to develop User Led Organisations
More Peer Support has Increased Uptake of Personal Budgets
Inspiring initiatives in challenging times
Forthcoming Powerup! Engagements
Personalisation and Recovery Study Day
PMHCWN Personality Disorder and Parenting Study Day
Terry retires
Carers Week
section64 funding
Second Study Day on Personalisation
Individual Budgets TB
Darzi Press Releases
Other News
Charitable Status Update
Co-opted service users and bme representation
Help for Daisy
SPN AGM 2008
Summary of HCC/CSCI Review
SPN Response to GSCC Consultation
Commissioning Framework
TB letter on future of social work comcare
SPN AGM 2007
Mind Conference 2007 in Bournemouth
SPN to coordinate Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network
Report of PMHN study day
Sleaford Conference write up
Sleaford afternoon session
Anna Miners Report

SPN MEMBER SURVEY REVEALS CUTS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ARE REMOVING VITAL LIFELINES

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Experience RECC - One Day Workshop
SPN AGM 2011

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Work themes

Woking Mind and RFT

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Caerphilly Mental Health Practice Example

Asylum seekers and refugees

SPN's asylum seekers study day
Destitute Asylum Seekers forced to rely on handouts
Gardening for Asylum Seekers

BME and culture

BME Mental Health: It's not just about Race and Culture
Being Black in Britain is bad for your mental health
Director of DRE announces he will leave
BME study day- Thinking outside the box
Cultural awareness
Counting Heads - MHT article
Chinese Mental Health Helpline
Delivering Race Equality: Action Plan

Mental Health Needs of LGBT people

LGBT Conference June 2008
Pace Perspective
Spotlight on LGBT Recovery
Social Work Contribution to lesbian and gay recovery
Diagnosis: Homophobic
A Lesson we need to Learn From
Triple Jeopardy
Real stories, real livesP LGBT people and the NHS

Mental health bill and act

Health bill to allow pilot individual health budgets
New vision for MH comments
CSIP Eastern Write of up Conference
SPN's Vision
History of the Bill
Key Issues
Mental Capacity Act
Stop Tinkering with the Exhaust

National Policy

The future regulation of health and adult social care in England
Concordat Dec 10
Commission for Racial Equality
Commissioning Framework
Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

Older people

Older people: everyone's business
Dignity for Older People

Parents, Children and Families

Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network

Personalisation

Developing the Personalisation Agenda in London
Holistic Assessment & Planning as a ‘Driver for Personalisation’ in Mental Health Services
Steps on the Journey

Recovery

Recovery Publication
Recovery and Diversity Study Day write up
Recovery and Diversity Study Day
Strategies for Living Common Themes
Developing Partners: Recovery through Diversity
A Common Purpose
BME Focus Group with Afiya Trust
Bringing a spring to recovery AGM April 2007
key points in recovery

Research

Personality Disorders: Holding to Heal?

Service user and carer issues and involvement

Acute In Patient Wards - Secrets of Success
HCC Slam Findings RG
Moving People Report
Personalisation Study Day Write Up
HCC Problems in Acute Wards
DineshBhugraJune08
In the Red
Personalisation
Stigma Revisited
OM Factor
Coming off medication initiative Rufus May
From the Heart - Leeds Carers
Media Watch
SPN's comments on CPA
Care Programme Approach
SPN calls for service user czar
Values and Methodologies
SUSTN
Shift updates
SHIFT Anti Stigma Campaign
SHIFT seek speakers
Mental Health stigma challenged
User Controlled Research - Involve
Values and Methodologies For Social Research in Mental Health: A Position Paper
Open Up Toolkit
User involvement in risk assessment
Raza's diary
Service user art gallery

Social inclusion

Open Up supports service users to challenge stigma
Connect and Include
evidence based policy making
NSIP Commissioning Guidance
Recipe for life from transgendered perspective
Comprehensive Spending Review
Focus group on social inclusion
Change at Social Exclusion unit
It's about people
Rays of hope
Employment an option?
From social care to social empowerment
First NSIP report
Background on the NSIP

Spirituality, faith and religion

National Spirituality and Mental Health Forum
April 2006 - Spirituality
Spirituality Photo Gallery

Women, children and Families

International Women's day 2007 links
Dispatches
Sexual Harrassment on Mental Health Wards in England
Gaps in Children's Mental Health Services
Women in the system
From rhetoric to reality
New women's paper: women at risk
Photos from the study day
Women speak for change
Women in secure settings
Sharing and Information Key to Survival

Social Care Workforce

New Forum for SW and SC Established

New Ways of Working

Initial Papers
Leadership
Social Work Research
Career Progression Pathway
Social Work Identity
Miscellaneous Relevant Articles and Publications

National ASW Group

London Leads

GSCC Initiatives

Think Pieces

NWW4SW Current Update August 2006

Press Release National ASW Leads Meeting

PQ Specialist Mental Health Requirements Update

The Future of Mental Health

Social work: needing new ways of working?

Reasons for low morale

Social work contribution to mental health

Whole People, Whole Systems

Social Workers and the impact of modernisation

Rethink and IOP research project

Developing social models

The knowledge base

SPN facilitates discussion on social work

Better Contracts; Better Service

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