mental health

Benefits and Poverty

March 2, 2017

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PIP investigation: ‘Horrific’ suicide question sparks fresh assessment inquiry calls

There are fresh calls for an inquiry into the way the government assesses eligibility for a key disability benefit, after claimants with mental health conditions described how they had been asked in assessments why they had not taken their own lives. There was a horrified reaction on social media when disabled activist Alice Kirby

Benefits and Poverty

January 12, 2017

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May’s mental health speech ‘is smokescreen to hide damage of welfare reform’

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The prime minister has been accused of hypocrisy, after making a high-profile series of announcements on the “burning injustices” facing people in mental distress, despite research that has linked her own government’s welfare reforms with hundreds of suicides. Theresa May used the package of measures that she claimed would “transform” mental health support in

Politics

January 12, 2017

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May promises to address mental health ‘burning injustice’… but fails to fund her pledge

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The prime minister has been criticised for offering less than £20 million in new funding to go alongside a string of announcements on how her government will address the “burning injustice” of how society treats mental ill-health. Theresa May used the package of measures that she said would “transform” mental health support in schools,

Employment

Paul Farmer speaking to protesters outside Mind's headquarters

January 12, 2017

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Fresh anger over Mind’s government links as Farmer heads new review

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The appointment of Mind’s chief executive to head an employment review for the prime minister has raised fresh concerns among disabled activists about the mental health charity’s closeness to the government. Prime minister Theresa May announced this week that Paul Farmer and the former chair of banking giant HBOS Lord [Dennis] Stevenson would head

Politics

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September 29, 2016

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Labour conference: Corbyn wins plaudits over shadow mental health minister

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Disabled party activists have welcomed the Labour leader’s decision to back their campaign for him to reinstate the post of shadow cabinet minister for mental health. Jeremy Corbyn was forced to scrap the post he created only last year in July because of the departure of MP Luciana Berger and the need to appoint

Human Rights

July 24, 2015

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Campaigners dismiss ‘yet another’ mental health deaths review

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Human rights campaigners have criticised plans for an inquiry that will examine lessons from the deaths of people in mental distress in police custody, because they say the government already knows what action it needs to take. The call came from Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK), which has repeatedly raised concerns about the

Benefits and Poverty

July 3, 2015

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Trust and charity deny DWP mental health links, after protesters march on jobcentre

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An NHS trust and a homelessness charity have failed to dispel concerns that a new centre for mental health services is closely linked to government plans to push people in mental distress off benefits. Scores of protesters marched on a jobcentre in south London last week (26 June, pictured) to protest at plans to

Human Rights

An MHRN supporter outside the Royal Courts of Justice with a banner that says 'Is there justice or just us?'

May 22, 2015

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New money for ‘places of safety’, but ‘more must be done’ to stop discrimination

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Disabled activists have welcomed government plans to reduce the use of police cells as temporary “places of safety” for people detained under the Mental Health Act but have called for ministers to do more to prevent discrimination. Home secretary Theresa May announced this week that a new police and sentencing bill would include measures

Benefits and Poverty

May 1, 2015

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ELECTION 2015: Harper suggests backing for mental health treatment sanctions

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The Tory minister for disabled people appears to have accidentally admitted what many disabled activists feared: that a Conservative government would cut the out-of-work benefits of people with mental health conditions if they refused treatment. In a debate broadcast on local radio, Mark Harper strongly suggested that people with mental health problems would be

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