The prevention of suicide in middle-aged men should be made a priority, a study has urged, warning that deaths in mental health patients have become “substantially more common”. Factors including
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A new report from the Commission on Acute Adult Psychiatric Care (CAAPC) has published it’s interim findings into the provision of acute inpatient psychiatric beds and alternatives to admission available for
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Between June 2014 and April 2015, The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) led a project to explore the perceptions of, and approaches to, innovation in homelessness
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NHS England has said it will take urgent action after finding a “high level of inappropriate use of psychotropic drugs in people with learning disabilities”. A report estimated that up
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The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have published the Adult Safeguarding Policy for Northern Ireland ‘Adult Safeguarding: Prevention and Protection
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The author of a report on the care of people with learning disabilities has reported an “alarming absence of any tangible progress” since it was published six months ago. Sir
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The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) have made a recent lunchtime seminar on domestic abuse available to download. The “Tackling Domestic Abuse – Working inside and out of
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Nearly £2 billion was cut from funding to help vulnerable children keep their lives on track in the last five years, according to leading charities. Drug and alcohol support along
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The University of Edinburgh and Camphill Scotland are hosting an event in September on using social pedagogy to work with adults. The ‘Diamonds are forever: using social pedagogy to work
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A novel way of delivering mental health care imported from the USA has reduced the need for hospital admissions for people with psychosis, according to University of York researchers. But
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