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mental health

February 26, 2013

Cuts in mental health services 'leaving people' stranded

The Green Party of England and Wales conference has condemned cuts to mental health services, warning that they are causing huge damage.
December 21, 2012

The WOW petition: policy makers must listen and learn

The times in which the powerful and the comfortable could decide what is best for lives about which they have little comprehension are passing. Our family saying for this condition was 'VWTGTC'. It stood for 'vicar's wife taking gruel to cottagers'.
December 16, 2012

Petition for mental health sufferers on DLA backed by 'mass tweet'

A petition to HM Government to exclude vulnerable, severe and enduring mental health sufferers from disability benefit assessments in 2013 has been launched on the e-government website: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35092
March 12, 2012

Invulnerable people

Regular readers of my blog (a small but much appreciated group!) may wonder if I've got a bit obsessed with the Occupy eviction and my forced removal from the steps of St Paul's Cathedral. Looking back now, I realise that my last five blog entries have been about it.
February 2, 2012

The welfare struggle goes on, says Mind

Mental health charity Mind says that it "will continue to fight for improvements to the welfare and benefits system", despite yesterday's disappointing votes.
January 23, 2012

Churches back welfare bill amendments on poverty and mental health

Peers will today debate two amendments to the Welfare Reform Bill which supporters say are vital to the mental wellbeing of the poorest in the UK.
October 10, 2011

Global churches mark World Mental Health Day

Mental health problems affect people of all ages and in all societies, churches have been reminded on World Mental Health Day on 10 October.
October 10, 2011

Coming out as disabled

A few weeks ago, I was sorting through some old papers and came across my first ever published article. It was a piece on Christian attitudes towards mental health, published in the (now defunct) New Christian Herald in October 1998. I was 21.
June 1, 2011

Vulnerable claimants and asylum seekers at serious risk

Changes in the UK welfare benefit system are having devastating effects on the mental health of thousands of people, charities and a senior psychiatrist have warned. In a letter to the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/31/consequences-benefit-chang...), they pointed out that flawed tests for work capability were causing great distress and hardship, and some people had even taken their own lives.
April 8, 2011

Debating cuts is a 'waste of time', says Tory councillor

A Conservative councillor has been accused of insulting his own constituents after describing a debate on local cuts as a “complete waste of time”.