Our work

Our work

What people and providers need should shape reform from the beginning.

Mental health policy can feel distant from the everyday work of helping someone keep a home, rebuild confidence, find employment, stay connected to family, or get support before a situation becomes a crisis. Our work is about closing that distance.

We start with what members see in services and communities, bring that together with data, research, and lived experience, and use it to shape policy, commissioning, regulation, funding, and implementation.

Our three priorities are connected. Providers cannot play a full role in reform if their funding and workforce are unstable. Reform will not work if it treats community support as an optional extra. Better decisions are difficult when community provision is missing from the evidence used to plan and invest.

The evidence behind the work

Maps, dashboards, place profiles and sources for England and Wales.

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