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Working
together: Carer participation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland The
paper aims to identify what is happening in the social care sector with the
involvement of carers and the impact participation has had on service
improvement. Based on the premise that carers are experts in their own lives,
this SCIE position paper includes substantial links to further information and
good practice examples. Position paper 05: Working together: Carer participation
in England, Wales and Northern Ireland in pdf format
At:
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rs/pp05.pdf
National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions
This NSF has now been published. It sets out
11 quality requirements to change the provision of health and social care to
enable people to live as independently as possible and to improve quality of
life. These include support for family and carers.See
www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/10/53/69/04105369.pdf
New
rights for carers: From April 2007 carers
will have a right to request flexible working arrangements from their employer.
To find out more go to www.carersuk.org
Carers
Equal Opportunity Act came into force on 1st April 2005:
Under
the Act, , carers will have to be told
about their rights, will have more opportunities for work, education and
life-long learning and there will be greater collaboration between statutory
services to help them in their caring roles. News
Release from Dave Clark Carers Uk: To find out more go
to: carers
uk home page Guide
to carers assessment Policy and Practice
175,000-strong
hidden army of school-age carers Report
highlights toll on youngsters' education and job prospects Rebecca Smithers,
education editor Wednesday April 13, 2005 The Guardian To find out more about
these young carers go to The Guardian at: http://society.guardian.co.uk/children/story/0,1074,1458088,00.html
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After
reading Kevin Parish's comments ('30,000 in city have mental health
problems', November 3) I thoroughly agree, and feel compelled to add
my comments on the subject of violent crime and mental illness.
The vast majority of people with a mental health problem, including
those with the more serious forms such as manic depression (bipolar)
and schizophrenia are placid, gentle and intelligent people. What
people do not realise is that they are also aware of the stigma
attached to them by the ignorance of society. They also have
feelings just like anyone else: they are human beings just like
anyone else.
When crimes of violence hit newspaper headlines and it involves
somebody with a mental health problem, there is a public outcry, yet
there are crimes of violence happening weekly, if not daily, in this
city by people who are not deemed to be mentally ill:
alcohol-induced violence, child abuse (physical and sexual), rape
and physical abuse to adults. If this hits the headlines at all, it
is a five-minute wonder and it is forgotten.
I have read that only five per cent of people with a mental health
problem may become violent, not necessarily because of the mental
health problem, but in some cases because of their character: in
other words, they were like this before they became unwell. If you
measure five per cent of violent crimes by people who have a mental
health problem againts the 95 per cent remaining who are deemed to
be mentally well, it does not take much to work out what percentage
of the population are more dangerous.
People with mental health problems suffer enough pain caused by the
symptoms they experience without the added suffering caused through
lack of understanding and compassion from those who do not
understand the illness.
We all suffer the effects of mental health problems to some degree:
stress is one of the most common we can all relate to. Try to
imagine what it would be like to suffer the effects of stress day
in, day out, year in, year out - then multiply it by 100. But you
still have your family around you: many people with mental health
problems do not have family or even friends to support them.
PAMELA PINDER
Plymouth
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