Dear MHFEdefinition member
For information and resources on Mental Health and Employment...
Young Adult Carers Survey
NIACE...
Dear Colleagues
The Reading Agency has produced some promotional materials for Reading Well Mood-boosting Books. Materials need to be ordered by 4pm this Thursday (9 May)
Reading Well Mood-boosting Books is a strand of the Reading Well programme. The other strand is Reading Well Books on Prescription, which recommends 30 expert-endorsed self-help books.
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Hi everyone
Just wanted to say that after 8 weeks in India researching mental health recovery I am back and bursting with thoughts and thinking about how and why recovery in mental health occurs - and fundamentally Im wondering if recovery is possible or do we simply just learn to live with and manage our lives with renewed hope?
I learnt so much while I was away - I had amazing access into the Ayurvedic Mental Research Institute and met HINDU...
The Equality Challenge Unit are asking for responses from staff and students to a survey as part of their work on mental health on campus in Higher Education.
Supporting staff and students experiencing mental health difficulties
ECU is seeking the views of staff and students on how HEIs can support people experiencing mental health difficulties.
In particular, we want to understand how HEIs:
- develop...
Did anyone read this article in the Guardian? http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/20/university-mental-health-support-access
also there's a Blogg link to the right of the article which looks very interesting: As student suicides rise by 50% in five years, Edward Pinkney asks: whose responsibility really is...
Dear MHFEdefinition members
Please see below information about some free workshops that will be held in London, Birmingham and Manchester in April. The workshops are part of a research project NIACE...
For an opportunity to have your say about the name for the FE...
There are two ways to subscribe to this regular e-bulletin:
- Register on the website and you will automatically receive a news email when a new edition is published. Click the link in your digest email to access the ebulletin. Or
- Email...
GPs to prescribe self-help books for mental health problems
People in England with mild to moderate ...
A major article about how MINDFUL EMPLOYER is making a difference across the UK is featured in Occupational Health Magazine and can be read online on the Personnel Today website - visit www.mindfulemployer.net/news_events.html and follow the link.
The article reports on the recent evaluation of MINDFUL EMPLOYER and focuses on the very...
Children and Families Bill
NIACE...
We want to hear from you about effective practice in supporting learners with learning difficulties and / or disabilities to access learning. On behalf of the Skills Funding Agency, the National Institute of Continuing Education (NIACE...
The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 4
By Esther Wilson. Comic and touching drama series about a young woman with learning disabilities
Radio 4 webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qlkz1...
http://www.mentalhealthtoday.co.uk/digital_mental_health_products_developers_receive_funding_boost.aspx
Seven organisations have been awarded grants worth £375,000 to help develop digital products to support young people’s mental health.
The grant has been made by the Innovation Labs Project, a partnership between Comic Relief, Nominet Trust, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and the Mental Health Foundation.
Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young...
Opening doors for young disabled people to engage in youth work
31 Jan 2013
A new survey published by Ofsted today finds that more needs to be done to ensure disabled young people can access youth work provision available in their locality.
The ...
Collections Delivering Health Outcomes
Thackray Museum, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7LN
Tuesday 5 March 2013, 10am-4pm
This conference will explore the impact of collections on healthand well-being and the ways in which museums can evidencetheir contribution to health agendas.
- How can museums evidence the impact of their health andwell-being work in a way that is...
Did you know that young adult carers are less likely than their peers to be at college or university?
Did you know that at 16-18 young adult carers are twice as likely than their peers to be NEET...
A united approach to taking action on adult maths
One of the seven recommendations from the NIACE...
Imagine is charity working
with adults who experience mental health difficulties. In March 2013 Imagine
will be establishing a range of recovery-focused services including...
Museums, Health and Wellbeing Seminar
The Royal Society for Public Health is launching a series of training events focusing on arts, museums, health and wellbeing as part of their highly regarded Training Solutions Programmes & Courses for people across different sectors. We are pleased to announce the first event will occur on Tuesday 12 March in London and would like to invite you to attend.
Attached please find the brochure and registration form for the seminar...
Time to Change monthly e-news
The January 2013 edition of the Time to Change monthly e-news is now avaliable from the Time to Change website: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/files/newsletter/monthlyenews_January.html.
Features: A milestone year for tackling stigma.
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Just before Christmas the Education Committee published its report on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the SENdefinition and Disability...
The National Union of Students (NUS) is undertaking the first ever UK-wide research into the experiences of student carers in further and higher education. The information gathered from the research will be used by the NUS to lobby for better support for student carers and to support students’ unions to do the same on their campuses.
A student carer is a student of any age who provides unpaid support to family or friends who could not manage without this help. This could include...
Help people in your community get back into work!
ESF Community Learning Grants
The WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) invites your organisation to apply for a small grant, up to a maximum of £12,000, from the ESF Community Learning Grants programme. This is to fund courses and activities supporting individuals who are out of work, helping them to access employment or further learning and training.
The Fourth Grant Round will be...
Hi Folks
Just to let you know that in Resources there is a link and a brief write up about a useful resource from the Equality and Human Rights Commission: a Technical Guidance on the Equality Act of 2010. A link to the resource itself is below.
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Time to Change monthly e-news
The October 2012 edition of the Time to Change monthly e-news is now available from the Time to Change website: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/files/newsletter/monthlyenews_December.html.
Main headline: Frankie Sandford and Waynes Bridges pledge together.
Time to Change...
Mainstream is a social inclusion project run by the adult mental health charity Imagine. In October 2012,
Mainstream created a short film using "post-it" notes containing the words of people who had used the service to access a wide range of community activities including Education and Training in mainstream settings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQGjwWhvI4
You can find out more and LIKE the Mainstream Facebook...
Interesting blog giving insight into the life of a parent of children with autism
http://rabbitinbag.blogspot.co.uk/
MHFE Virtual Secondees join the project
12 Virtual Secondees have joined the NIACE...
Dear colleague,
There are just a couple of weeks left to submit your nominations for this year's Adult Learners' Week Awards! Don't miss your chance to nominate the people and projects that have inspired you and deserve further recognition.
We've got a range of new award categories for individual learners and learning projects,...
Economic Evidence around Employment Support for Disabled People
The National Development Team for inclusion has published a new report that summarises the economic evidence around employment supports for disabled people (including those with mental health problems). Please follow the link for further information and to download the report: Economic...
Virtual Campus News Autumn 2012
The Virtual Campus News is published as part of a partnership formed by the National Offender Management Service, Skills Funding Agency and Department for Business Innovation & Skills through prison projects across England and Wales.
Throughout all of this the key theme is increasing the employability of ex-offenders through...
Working with older lesbian, gay and bisexual people. A Guide for Care and Support Services
This guide was produced by Stonewall, a charity that campaigns for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) equality, for care and support organisations about working with older LGB people.
The guide provides information on:
- the law
- supporting older LGB people
- tips and case studies for care homes, domiciliary services,...
Dear Colleague
I am writing to inform you about an update to the Access to Work...
Adult Learners’ Week a national celebration coordinated by NIACE will take place from 18 - 24 May 2013. The Week recognises the benefits of lifelong learning and the achievements of outstanding individuals and innovative learning projects across England through Awards and events.
The Awards are designed to celebrate inspirational individuals and projects that have benefitted from learning at or for work,...
Would you like to the opportunity to work with the NIACE Mental Health in Further Education e-project?
NIACE is pleased to announce that it is now recruiting a second group of Virtual Secondees to the Mental Health in Further Education (MHFEdefinition) e-project. In the words of one of last year’...
17 September 2012 – New disability action alliance announced to deliver disability strategy
On 17 September 2012 the Government announces the formation of a new disability action alliance to help respond to the ideas put forward by disabled people and their organisations on living fulfilling lives.
Convened by Disability...
Fulfilling potential
Working together to empower disabled people
(Office for Disability...
Dear MHFEdefinition network member
Today is World Mental Health Day an opportunity perhaps, to take some time out to think about our health and wellbeing. There is a collection of wellbeing podcasts available to listen to and/or download that may be of interest on...
Learner Voice Excellence Programme
"With the changes to the Common Inspection Framework, listening to learners' experiences are now of even greater importance. Understanding learners' views is central to the development and improvement of the quality of your provision, as well as to...
Time to Change monthly e-news
The September 2012 edition of the Time to Change monthly e-news is now avaliable from the Time to Change website: http://www.time-to-change.org.uk/files/newsletter/monthlyenews_September.html.
Time to Change is England's biggest programme to end the discrimination faced by people with mental health problems.
Mental Health Network News e-bulletin Issue 9, September 2012
Issue no. 9 (September 2012) of our NIACE...
No Health without mental health
In July 2012 the Government published the No Health Without Mental Health implementation framework. No health without mental health, a cross-government mental health outcomes strategy for people of all ages was launched by the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, in February 2011. In the framework there is a section on Mental health...
Opportunity to join Young People's Advisory Group
The Department of Education is inviting disabled children and young people and those with special educational needs to join a Young People's Advisory Group (YPAG). The purpose of this group is for disabled young people and young people with SEN...
Digital Practitioner Award
Dear All
The Digital practitioner awards, part of our “Innovating Learning” conference, are now open for nominations at http://www.niace.org.uk/campaigns-events/events/digital-practitioner-awards-information.
Please see the description below and circulate widely:
The past twelve months have seen many changes in our sector,...
Disclosure and barring
The key changes to the disclosure and barring scheme, which will come into force in September 2012, include:
- abolishing registration and monitoring requirements
- redefining the scope of 'regulated activities' - those are the activities involving close work with vulnerable groups, including children, which a barred person must not do
- abolishing 'controlled activities'
You can find...
Learning providers (of all different kinds) that are funded by the Skills Funding Agency and/or the Education Funding Agency are invited to bid for one of the following:-
- A grant of between £1,000 and £4,999 or
- A grant of between £5,000 and £25,000
To deliver projects which advance equality, diversity and inclusion (including mental health).
The aim of the fund is to support innovative and sustainable projects...
This year's BASE conference takes place in the heart of Glasgow on 12-13 September.
Speakers for the event include:
* Alex Neil MSP (Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure & Capital Investment in the Scottish Government)
* Anne McGuire MP (Shadow Minister for Disabled People)
* Marie Kelly (Director of Training and Employment...
Dear Colleague
NIACE...
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Press release from LSIS...
Ruby Wax's Mad Confessions documentary is part of Channel 4's 4 Goes Mad season, in which she campaigns to break down the stigma that still surrounds mental illness:
"Ruby's lively celebrity interviews are well known, but this documentary casts the straight-talking actress and comedian in a new light - candidly sharing her own vulnerabilities with humour and warmth, whilst mentoring and empowering...
An article in the Daily Mail published on Monday 16 July 2012 reports that the number of suicides and prevalence of suicidal tendencies is rising faster among older men (men aged over 55) than any other age group as the recession takes its toll - in fact 75 per cent of suicides are among men: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2174180/...
Northern College has used Xerte to develop a virtual induction to College. This aims to provide an induction to the College which groups and individuals can view and use in their own familiar safe environments before taking the leap to enrolling on a course or visiting the College. It aims to address some fears prospective students, particularly those with mental heath issues, have when considering enrolling for courses. It provides a feel for the environment and ethos of the College along...
Dear Colleague
I am sending you details of the latest Disability...
Better life: relaunching the happiness index
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECDdefinition)’s Better Life Index was relaunched recently; the index provides interesting data about work/life balance, education...
The perfect partnership
Workplace solutions for disabled people and business
The Equality and Human Rights Commission's first Triennial Review: How Fair is Britain? (2010) mapped progress on equality in Britain for people with protected characteristics. The report identified those issues most urgently in need of resolution and ...
Creating an inclusive Apprenticeship Offer
Peter Little’s report on Inclusive Apprenticeships was published last week. The report aims to give an informed and up-to-date description and analysisof the issues related to the inclusion of people with learning difficulties and/ordisabilities in Apprenticeship provision; it examines the evidence and issues, relating to the aspiration of creating an “inclusiveapprenticeship offer” for young people...
Dear colleague,
The Community Learning Innovation Fund, a new fund designed to support new and imaginative community learning opportunities that encourage adults to take up, succeed and progress in learning, is now open for applications.
Organisations from across England can bid for their share of £4 million from the Community Learning Innovation Fund for projects to develop and offer creative learning opportunities that engage and motivate, in particular, disadvantaged...
The green skills learning scheme, Greeniversity, was set up over 2 years ago by Peterborough Environment City Trust (PECT) Greeniversity is a skills share initiative that gives people the opportunity to volunteer to teach or learn ‘green skills’, to use in their community. The scheme offers numerous courses from cooking, to gardening, to beauty therapy. Greeniversity has been hugely successful since its launch and over 500 classes have been run by over 120 local teachers;...
An Equality Newsletter
Did you know nearly 15% of the population have some degree of deafness?
Organisations working with deaf people across the country are inviting everyone to 'Look At Me' which aims to improve understanding of the different types of deafness (UK Council on Deafness). Find out more here.
You can also find out about the D/Deaf learner voice work...
You are invited to join us for the annual LSIS...
As part of the Government's drive to reduce the regulatory framework for public bodies, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC...
The Community Learning Trusts pilot scheme will give local people a say in decisions about their local adult learning courses and bring better value for money for taxpayers. The Government is planning to select between ten and fifteen pilots to begin work in August 2012 NIACE...
A national policy conference to explore current and emerging challenges and approaches to widening participation in adult education, will be held by NIACE...
New Model Visual Arts Institutions and Social Engagement
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/schools/school_of_social_work/research/pru/files/wzw_nmi_report.pdf
Research report by Lynn Froggett, Alastair Roy, Robert Little, Leah Whitaker
funded by Arts Council England North West, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Northern Rock Foundation
This study asks how...
The NHSdefinition Confederation have recently commissioned NDTi to look at the reasonable adjustments that mental health services are making to respond positively to people with learning disabilities, and to people with autism. I’d like to hear about your experience...
Following the latest topic referral from the Department of Health, NICE...
Latest update newsletter on benefits cuts and changes from Social Welfare Training attached below. It includes, the cessation of hard-won changes to the 104 week linking rule
"Employment...
From the NIACE...
Read Rob's blog for 9.3.2012 'Remploy, Politicians and Images of Pity' on the NDTi website at:
National Development Team for Inclusion
Montreux House
18a James Street West
Bath BA1 2BT
Tel: 01225 789135
Your opinion is wanted to help UCLAN develop content for a new Arts Involvement course. Please take the time to complete the survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JB9JTHL . It will only take a few minutes.
Please forward this invitation on to your colleagues.
Dear Colleague,
Arts involvement has been clearly identified as an activity that supports social...
Digital Stories - One Year On
The Mind website has a number of videos - digital stories - showing the experiences of people living with mental health problems in Wales. Participants attended a digital storytelling course, learning how to create a script documenting their experiences and how to put a film together and edit it. Four new stories have just been launched...
29 February 2012 00:01 Government News Distribution Service - ...
Department for Work and Pensions presentation
Civil service document that reveals the government's policy proposal to make disabled people work unpaid for an unlimited amount of time
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http://www.jrf.org.uk/betterlife - new website from JRF encouraging us to think differently about getting older by listening to the voices of experience, including |
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To celebrate the launch of the eight brand-new titles this month, why not hold some reading events to encourage adults to fall in love with reading? |
Happy New Year to all MHFEdefinition members and visitors
A...
Published on 19 December 2011, in many ways this policy statement probably provides the edges in the new policy jigsaw for young people and learning and skills, bringing together:
"...for the first time all of the Government’s policies for young people aged 13 to 19. It therefore covers a wide range of issues – from education and youth services, to health, crime, housing and more. Nine government departments have been involved...
Simeon Brody's Mad World blog for 6 December 2011 is worth a read (and has useful information for some new MHFEdefinition network...
This strategy published by BIS...
Issue no. 8 of our Mental Health Network News e-bulletin is now published. Contents include:
- FE reform and FE loans - what are the practical and policy implications for mental health services?
- Headline links to stories that have appeared on MHFE that you might have missed
- Policy round-up
- A gentle reminder about Adult Learners' Week...
will be launched around Valentine's Day in February 2012 to encourage adults across the country to fall in love with reading.
Millions have fallen in love with reading again through...
View the latest newsletter from Time to Change directly in your browser or below. It contains more information about Time to Change Phase 2 in which the campaign will be launching a new grants scheme in January 2012 to fund projects led by other groups and organisations that bring people with different experiences of...
An open letter from Maria Miller the Minister for Disabled People (dated 1.12.2011) inviting participation in the 3-month engagement period for Fulfilling Potential
Dear
I am pleased to be able to let you know that today...
Dear colleague
Here is an opportunity to get involved in work around the SENdefinition Green Paper...
New Challenges, New Chances, was launched yesterday by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
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The ONSdefinition is currently consulting on the first set of draft national well-being measures. The (MNW) programme was launched in November 2010 to provide a fuller understanding of ‘how society is doing’ than economic measures alone...
The new Cooking up a storm e-resouce will be published here on MHFEdefinition in November (after Hackney Community College presents it at the 2011 AoC...
Remember when regional mental health network meetings and other events meant you got regular time out to find out what was going on, keep up to date with news, share and learn about good practice and were able to discuss issues freely with other people with an interest in mental health and learning?
Well, as a virtual secondee to MHFE...
Well here's another chance to do something about it.
LSIS...
From Linda Dixon at NIACE...
Congratulations to time to change. It has been awarded £20m in funding to continue tackling stigma and discrimination until March 2015 by the Department of Health and Comic Relief.
The funding will be used to continue work to change attitudes and behaviours on a mass scale, empower individuals to tackle discrimination,...
The public consultation on the recommendations in Liz Sayce's review 'Getting in, staying in and getting on' closes midnight, Monday 17th October 2011.
DWP says it wants to hear from as many disabled people and as...
LSIS will provide grants of £2500 to five providers to work with at least ten learners with mental health conditions and ten learners who have not declared mental health...
NIACE...
Earlier this year eight further education providers took part in projects to help people who experience mental health problems progress from discrete provision to wider learning opportunities. Barnet College, City College Birmingham, Leicester Adult Skills and Learning Service, Our Celebration in York, Stockport College and Swarthmore Education Centre in Leeds all focused on identifying specific teaching and learning strategies that might help progression; Blackpool and the Fylde...
Apologies for any inconvenience if you have received extra postings from the MHFEdefinition website this morning - the hosting service we use for MHFE is sorting out some problems they had at the weekend and it seems to have triggered a mass 're-send' of the last message. I'd like to thank you in...
Informal adult community learning – NIACE online survey for individuals open until 31st October 2011:
- Is part of the government's review of informal adult learning
- Gives individuals a chance to have their...
Here's our bumper summer special edition of our regular mental health networks news
Top stories:
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Consultation on the Government's new draft suicide prevention strategy is open until 11th October 2011 and the final strategy will be published early 2012. The aims of the strategy are to reduce the suicide rate and improve support for those bereaved or affected by suicide.
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The closure of Skill, the National Bureau for Students with Disabilities, in April was formally marked at a recent reception in the House of Lords. Although Skill isn't returning in its previous form, BIS...
Launched on 14th June 2011, Work and Mental Health, is a new online resource on the Royal College of Psychiatrists' website, aimed at employers and others supporting people to return to work after a period of mental ill-health. It has been developed in partnership with DWP...
New! MINDFUL EMPLOYER Line Managers' Resource.
Includes contributions from line managers in a range of businesses and organisations, a foreword by Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health & Work and David Frost, Director General British Chamber of Commerce and comments from Dr Steve Boorman and others, as well as practical information and advice on:
- Mental health...
The first ever World report on disability was launched by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank on 9th June 2011.
For the more than a billion disabled people in the world today, lack of services and the obstacles they face in everyday life mean that generally they ...
Following concerns earlier this year from learning providers , NIACE...
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Unfortunately we have had to postpone this week's webinar (on the findings from the Take Ten People project in the North East) scheduled for Thursday 30th June 2011.
Ann Creed (who was faciltating the session) has asked me to say that she's really sorry for any inconvenience caused but her router broke today and it's going to take her provider a couple of days to get a new one to her. She lives in the back of beyond so driving miles to somewhere...
Is your organisation a Mindful Employer?* If not, do you/ your manager/HR team/health and safety officer or rep...
Two research documents from DWPdefinition - one suggests improvements to Employment...
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Launched this summer, we thought you'd like to know about Q4S. It's a new website: http://www.q4s.eu/, for disabled students in post-16 education that provides advice on:
- How people's learning skills can be affected by different disabilities (including mental health difficulties) or learning difficulties such as dyslexia or Aspergers Syndrome
- What students can do to help themselves develop ...
Next Step has recently published advice on what not to do to get your dream job: The top 10 mistakes made on CVs
Details of this free conference, just in case you are not signed up to receive our Mental Health Network News e-bulletin
The conference, funded by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS...
Thanks to Al for this news item (which looks as though it got lost in a forum).
Politicians, journalists and senior civil servants have praised nef for their pioneering work on well-being measurement,...
Just in case you use Teachers TV, following termination of the Teachers TV contract, the Teachers TV website will cease to be available from 29th April, 201
After the 29th April
The Department for Education (DfEdefinition) will make all...
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS...
We are pleased to say that, with a bit of technical help from Highbury College (thanks Kerry), the two Back on Track videos launched at the conference in Portsmouth in 2010 are now available on our MHFE YouTube channel.
If you are not already familiar with Back on Track you might also want to check out the...
You may already know that the Government has a mission to cut down on bureaucracy. To this end it has set up the 'Red Tape Challenge' on the Cabinet Office website. What you may not know, is that this includes asking whether the regulations and laws in the Equality Act (2010) against discrimination and harassment should be scrapped altogether and business and society trusted to 'do the right thing'?
The full list of questions being asked...
Colleagues
The SFA have released an update on guidance note 7 – I have highlighted some of the more significant areas below, however you can read the transcript in full here: http://readingroom.lsc.gov.uk/SFA/GN7-final-11april2011.pdf
Minimum Contract Level (MCL)
On 24 March 2011, the Skills Funding Agency (the Agency)...
Well London - DIY Happiness
“Some people, who have been living next door to each other for 20 years, have never spoken but are now doing things together”
DIY Happiness Participant, Southwark
People’s mental well-being is vitally important for our families, communities and society. The Well London DIY Happiness project, developed by South London & Maudsley...
The Deputy Prime Minister launched the Coalition Government's Social Mobility Strategy, Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers today.
Its aim is to tackle unfairness at every stage of life, by ensuring that 'everyone has a fair opportunity to fulfil their potential, regardless of the...
A ground-breaking report was published 30th March 2011 on the experiences of patients who appealed to a tribunal against their detention under the Mental Health Act. First-hand information has been obtained from patients of their personal experiences of appearing before the First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health), formerly the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
This may be of interest for people working in Learning and Skills as part of Mental Health Awareness illustrating some of the...
The DfEdefinition announced today that:
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It has been dubbed the biggest reorganisation in the history of the NHSdefinition. Under the Government's reforms for England, much of the health budget will be handed to GPs working in consortia. Public health...
If health is your remit read this handy synopsis of the leading stories captured by our Healthy Communities team. The briefing is designed to act as a quick reference guide. It reviews the most relevant policy publications and announcements in the last month, including: the Government's mental health strategy for the nation's health inequalities a year-on since the Marmot review; and issues affecting children and young people.
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In an age of austerity with significant cuts to councils' budgets, the importance of evaluating projects, especially in the field of health, takes on added primacy. Access our new impact assessment guide produced with Valerie Garrow, Associate Director at the Institute for Employment...
You are invited to join us for the Effective Practice in in the delivery and coordination of adult learning difficulties and/or disabilities provision webinar on Monday 21st March 2011 from 12 noon to 13.00. Yola Jacobsen, Programme Director at NIACE...
If you don't subscribe to the NMHDU news feed you may not have noticed this new report from the NHSdefinition Confederation:...
Described as 'the biggest programme of reform in the education and health support for children with special educational needs (SENdefinition) and disabilities in 30 years, this Green paper seeks to address:
- parents having to battle to get the support their child needs
- SEN statements not joining up education...
Published today, Race to Learning. Written by Ama Dixon and Caroline Law at NIACE...
Today the Government has commenced a consultation in relation to age discrimination in the provision of services and public functions.
The consultation ‘Equality Act 2010: Banning age discrimination in services, public functions and associations - A consultation on proposed exceptions to the ban’ sets out the specific exceptions where the Government believes that different treatment of people of various ages is justified or beneficial and where legislation...
The Colleges in their Communities Inquiry, which will report in November 2011, is investigating the strategic role colleges play in their communities and the added public value they can bring in leading adult learning provision and serving each of their local communities.
The Inquiry wants to hear the opinions of principals, managers, teachers, learners, community representatives and others...
We all know that media images and portrayals of mental health and illness can play an important role in tackling stigma and discrimination.
Thursday 3rd March 2011 is World Book Day so we thought we'd challenge you to help us produce a list of the best and most powerful positive portrayals of mental health (and illness) in fiction.
We want you to share (by...
Synchronicity or what! On the same day that NIACE...
We have uncovered a technical glitch which means that you may not have been receiving our posts from our regular news and discussion forums.
I apologise for any inconvenience and am pleased to let you know that you are now subscribed to receive our news posts.
Visit the news section to check out any items that you may have missed.
Now that you are going to be getting news from us you might want to change the frequency you receive it or...
Voices Empowered and the NEMHDU Take Ten People project invite you to join us for a half day workshop on Wednesday 16 March: Discovering potential: integrating employment and learning and skills for people who have experience of a mental health condition.
The event will share emerging regional practice related to supporting employability skills. It will be of particular interest to managers and staff working in the health, social care, employment or learning...
Fri, 2011/02/11 - 15:54 posted by Al Lockhart-SmithIf health is your remit – read this handy synopsis of the leading stories captured by the LG Improvement and Development's Healthy Communities team. The briefing...
I am pleased to announce that we have a winner for our first prize draw!
Congratulations go to Christine Shepherd at Peterborough Regional College - well done Christine.
Christine wins a free place at the NIACE...
Speakers include Dr. Rachel Perkins and organisations in the North East who are currently delivering IPS...
Latest e-bulletin (9.2.2011) published weekly by the Young People's Learning Agency (YPLA) . This regular e-bulletin is created for local authority directors of children's services and all 16-19 funded providers and it goes out to local authority 14 - 19 commissioning leads.
It aims to share important information in a concise format. Most articles link to material...
As part of a national cross-sector Resolving Multiple Disadvantage project being championed by the Cabinet Office, a range of Big Society partners, including the National Mental Health Development Unit, wish to work with a small number of localities from April to September 2011 to find ways to reduce multiple disadvantage amongst adults. Expressions of interest to become ‘Local Inclusion Labs' are invited from localities wishing to: improve the outcomes of multiply...
Mental Health in Higher Education has just published mhhenews31 (word file February 2010). Join the mailing list for this useful bi-monthly ebulletin on the MHHE website
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Read our latest e-bulletin (Issue no. 2, 4.2.2011)
Please bear with us if you receive more than one copy of this bulletin. We are working away in the background to join together our original network database, our moodlers and people registered in MHFE so that you only receive one copy but you know what it's like - e-Gremlins...
This morning (2.2.2011) the Department of Health launched:
- The new cross-government mental health strategy - 'No Health Without Mental Health'
- A video on YouTube by the Care Minister, Paul Burstow, introducing the new...
