The Acting Children’s Commissioner for Wales has called for an inquiry into the ‘spate’ of suicides by young people in and around Bridgend, South Wales…
Over 450 patients and carers respond to Jo’s Mental Health Bill Blog
Over 450 patients and carers have responded to a web log started by service user Jo Roberts that discussed the draft Welsh Code of Practice for the Mental Health Act…
Prison suicides rise by nearly 40%
New figures released by the Ministry of Justice show a 37% increase in suicides in the UK’s prisons last year…
Report investigates business costs of mental illness
Businesses across Britain are losing £1,000 a year for every person they employ because of mental ill health among their staff, suggests a report published this week by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health…
Report suggests mental health ‘inequality’
New figures from an independent NHS watchdog suggest that some black and minority ethnic groups are three times more likely to be admitted to hospital because of mental illness…
Funding boost will improve GP support for people with mental illness
An extra £100,000 a year from the Welsh Assembly Government will be made available to improve support for GPs providing care for people experiencing mental illness…
‘Argyfwng’ y sâl eu meddwl ifanc yng Nghymru – adroddiad y Comisiynydd Plant
Yn ôl adroddiad newydd gan Gomisiynydd Plant Cymru, mae gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl ar gyfer pobl ifanc yng Nghymru yn dal i fod mewn cyflwr ‘argyfyngus’, a hynny chwe blynedd ar ôl i Lywodraeth y Cynulliad lansio ei strategaeth i wella safonau…
‘Crisis’ for young mentally ill in Wales – Children’s Commissioner’s report
Mental health services for young people in Wales are still in a state of ‘crisis’ six years after the Assembly Government launched its strategy to drive up standards, suggests a new report by the Children’s Commissioner for Wales…
Hafal’s Autumn Conference shows the Road to Recovery
Hafal welcomed visitors from across the country – including the Welsh Assembly’s new Carers’ Champion and Deputy Health Minister Gwenda Thomas AM – to Llandrindod Wells this week for the charity’s 2007 Autumn Recovery Conference…
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Keeping the Family in Mind
Children’s charity Barnardo’s has re-launched its award-winning resource pack for practitioners working with children whose parents are experiencing mental illness…
Conference brings North Wales prison plan into focus
UK Government Justice Minister David Hanson spoke this week at a conference held in Llandudno to discuss plans to create a new prison in North Wales…
Mental Health Act – race equality assessment was “inadequate”
A new report by the Commission for Race Equality (CRE) claims that the Department of Health failed to conduct an adequate assessment of the potential disproportionate impact on black and minority ethnic people of the new Mental Health Act…
Report reveals hospital detention death toll
Forty-one people died by suicide while detained in hospitals in England and Wales under the Mental Health Act last year, according to the first annual report from the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody…