Homeless people could be “criminalised” and “penalised” as UK councils attempt to crack down on begging, it has been claimed. Introduced in 2014, Public Space Protection Orders (PSPO) let local
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Local authorities spend less than 1% of their public health budget on mental health, and the figure is shrinking year on year, according to new data. The charity Mind used
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Some sufferers of psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia may have a treatable immune disorder, research suggests. In a nationwide study, scientists at the University of Oxford found up to one in
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BASW CEO Dr Ruth Allen marks national Hospital Social Work Day 2016… Some of my most formative and rewarding work experiences have been in hospital settings, specifically on mental health
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A “Claudia’s Law” to give families greater control over the affairs of missing people could be introduced in memory of the chef Claudia Lawrence. Ms Lawrence disappeared on her way
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Lawyers have returned to a specialist court for the latest round of a long-running case which a judge said had cost taxpayers an “astonishing” amount of money and generated an
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A man is facing a life sentence after being found guilty of murdering a disabled adult who was beaten for days, drugged and dumped by the side of a footpath.
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NHS Digital has today published initial provisional figures from a new interim data collection which captures details on mental health patients being admitted to a unit that does not form
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The extent of the mental and physical health problems caused by homelessness is laid bare in a new report. Research into the experiences of 64 people who are homeless or
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Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that more women took their own lives in 2015 than at any time in the previous decade, and that
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