Schools are finding it increasingly difficult to support pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) amid the Covid-19 health crisis, research has found. Among special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs), almost three quarters...
Long-awaited Mental Health Act overhaul bids to empower patients and tackle racial disparities
White Paper sets out plan to implement much of 2018 review of act including enabling people to nominate a person to help with care decisions and express advance preferences for treatment. Read the full article on this link to Community Care Share...
How Black and ethnic minority mental health patients’ cultural needs frequently go unmet
Ward staff can mistakenly see religious beliefs as symptoms of mental illness and lack confidence in meeting cultural needs, but better training and effective assessments, using the social model, can help, finds research. Read the full article on...
Children and young people’s mental health – policy, CAMHS services, funding and education
Successive Governments have pledged to improve mental health support for children and young people. This briefing covers recent Department of Health and Social Care, Department for Education and NHS policy. Children and young people’s mental health...
The financial impact of COVID-19 on disabled people and their carers
Why extending the £20 uplift to legacy benefits is the right thing to do
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Children’s rights in mental health settings
Article 39 has published a report sharing children and young people’s views and experiences of mental health hospitals in England, as told to their advocates. The report finds that children are being kept in hospital for too long, often many miles...
