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Mental Health Alliance's Joint Letter to the Prime Minister on the King's Speech
Ella Dunthorne
Published: November 7, 2023
Alongside partners in the Mental Health Alliance, The Association has co-signed a joint letter to the Prime Minister expressing our disappointment at the exclusion of the Mental Health Bill in the King’s Speech. Read the full letter below. Dear Prime Minister, On behalf of the people we support, we’re writing to express our deep disappointment…
Read moreNational Benchmarking Survey of Social Care Workforce
Ella Dunthorne
Published: October 17, 2023
The Association is pleased to be able to announce that the 2023 National Workforce Benchmarking Survey of Social Workers and Wider Social Care Workforce Employed Within Employed Within VCSE Sector Supporting People with Mental Health Conditions Across England has been commissioned by NHS England Workforce Training and Education directorate for another year. The Association was…
Read moreSector supports Samaritans' call for the renewal of local suicide prevention funding
Ella Dunthorne
Published: October 11, 2023
Joined by over 20 other charities in the mental health and suicide prevention sector, they wrote an open letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP urging him to demonstrate his commitment to reducing lives lost to suicide. Read the full letter below: Dear Jeremy, As you know from your time as…
Read moreThe Association's Annual General Meeting
Ella Dunthorne
Published: October 5, 2023
The Association’s Annual General Meeting, which took place on Thursday 28 September 2023, was an opportunity to bring together our colleagues and wider membership to celebrate the Association’s impact on the VCSE mental health sector. This time, we looked at our year in numbers, our publications and progress, and welcomed three new trustees. The presentation…
Read moreBuilding Community into the Integrated Care System - Our Response
Ella Dunthorne
Published: September 21, 2023
The Association welcomed the publication, by its members Rethink Mental Illness, of this major paper which sets out a range of ways in which statutory and VCSE mental health sectors can work more effectively to help improve and personalise community mental health services, at a time of increasing need and health and care system transformation…
Read moreNational Suicide Prevention Strategy Response
Dania Hanif
Published: September 12, 2023
To coincide with Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, the Government has published its long-awaited National Suicide Prevention Strategy. The Strategy, published 11 years since the last, delivers “a firm commitment to see the number of suicides in England decrease within two and a half years at the very latest.” At a time when we…
Read moreInternational Recruitment/UK Visa Sponsorship for Employers
Ella Dunthorne
Published: September 5, 2023
Request for Information Can you please answer the following: a) Do you have an active UKVI Certificate of Sponsorship? b) Or are you in the process of applying for a sponsorship license? Please let us know by emailing the team. Why we would like to know: The Association is aware that there are unscrupulous operators…
Read moreNational Partnership Agreement – Right Care, Right Person Response
Ella Dunthorne
Published: July 26, 2023
The Government, today, has published a new national partnership agreement (NPA) aiming to support mental health care, “with potential to free up to a million hours of police time”. This has been concerning for us and our membership of mental health charities (VCSE) providing services for several reasons. First and foremost, it is essential that…
Read moreCall For Political Parties To Back A 10-Year Plan
Ella Dunthorne
Published: July 25, 2023
In a letter that was hand-delivered to 10 Downing Street on Thursday 20th July, mental health leaders have asked Rishi Sunak to reverse his Government’s decision to scrap the 10-year Mental Health Strategy that was scheduled for publication this year. The Association is one of over 50 signatories, which include a group of academics, health…
Read moreUpdated Guidance for the Mental Health Crisis Breathing Space Scheme
Ella Dunthorne
Published: June 12, 2023
Background The Breathing Space scheme was launched by the Government in May 2021. The standard breathing space scheme provides a period of protections for individuals who seek professional debt advice, pausing enforcement action, and most interest, fees and charges for 60 days. As problem debt and mental health are often linked, the Government…
Read moreAssociation of Mental Health Providers responds to Sir Mark Rowley’s letter regarding Met police responses to mental health incidents
Ella Dunthorne
Published: May 30, 2023
30 May 2023: In response to a letter seen by the Guardian, where Sir Mark Rowley says he will order his officers not to attend thousands of calls they get every year to deal with mental health incidents Kathy Roberts, CEO of Association of Mental Health Providers, the leading voice of the voluntary sector mental…
Read moreThe Association launches national picture of mental health social care workforce
Ella Dunthorne
Published: May 25, 2023
New mapping tool improves insight into regional and national mental health workforce 24 May 2022: To establish a clearer overview of the national and regional picture of the mental health social care workforce, the Association of Mental Health Providers (The Association), the national voice of mental health charities providing services in England and Wales, has…
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