 Commissioning to transform day and vocational services
About Time is the first step-by-step guide that shows how commissioners can turn their services around to offer people the support they need to live the lives they want. It shows that involving service users from the start of a process of radical change is crucial to its success.
12 June 2008
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This is our evaluation of a process in England of involving service users in the re-commissioning process. This report provides insight into what worked during re-commissioning day and vocational services. Full of quotes from the people involved, it should help anyone wishing to embark on the re-commissioning of day and vocational services in their own area.
11 February 2010
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 Briefing Paper 27
The briefing identifies seven major disincentives to work which must be tackled by policy makers before returning to employment can become a clear, easy process for service users. This information will be superseded by the Welfare Reform Act from April 2008.
12 October 2004
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 in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services for people with mental health problems
This is a concise guide for health and social care commissioners on how to involve people with direct experience of using mental health services in the re-commissioning of day and vocational services. It is based on the experiences of commissioners and service users who collaborated on re-designing and modernising local services.
01 December 2009
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 The economic and financial case for supported employment
Studies have shown that IPS is by far the most effective way of helping people who use mental health services to get jobs. And those who work regularly make less use of mental health services, needing fewer hospital admissions, as well as having a better quality of life and a higher income. This paper provides an overview of the cost and effectiveness of IPS for commissioners.
22 September 2009
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 What we know about successful interventions. A progress review.
Common Mental Health Problems at Work examines recent international research evidence on how to help people with depression and anxiety to stay in work or to return after a period of ill health. It confirms that people with common mental health problems do not have to be completely well to return to work. For many, going back to work actually helps their recovery.
07 June 2010
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 A knowledge and skills set for employment advisory services located in primary care settings
Much long-term unemployment can be averted if the right steps are taken when employees' health conditions are first identified. Responding to this need will require services and staff with the appropriate knowledge and skills. This paper looks at the skills and knowledge that such front line staff would need.
23 June 2009
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 Individual Placement and Support into Employment
Doing What Works shows that Individual Placement and Support (IPS) is by far the most effective way of helping people with severe and enduring mental health problems to gain and retain the jobs they want. But it is only effective if all seven of its key principles are in place.
18 February 2009
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 Employment support, mental health and Black and minority ethnic communities
People from Black and minority ethnic communities are less likely to use employment support services and less likely to succeed in gaining employment than their white British peers. This briefing suggests some targeted actions that might help to make change happen.
17 July 2008
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 Briefing Paper 30
This briefing paper shows that patients at the special hospital gained in skills and confidence after participating in a business run for and by patients.
11 January 2006
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 Making the NHS an exemplar employer of people with mental health problems
A practical guide showing how NHS managers and others can lead by example in employing mental health service users in the NHS workforce while improving the working lives and job retention for all staff.
13 July 2006
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 Key indicators for the development of evidence-based employment services
Mental health and employment services should report regularly how well they help people to get and keep paid work. Measuring What Matters presents a set of key indicators that can be used routinely so that service users and their families can see how well services are performing.
09 June 2009
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 Key opportunities to put policy into practice
This paper aims to make sense of what the new policy set out in New Horizons, Working our way to better mental health, Realising ambitions and Work, Recovery and Inclusion means in practice and pick out the key commitments and opportunities as we see them. It follows on from our summary of the policies and looks at how employment and other services can put these opportunities into practice.
15 April 2010
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 Developing the Business Case
Mental ill health costs employers nearly £26 billion each year. This paper details the costs of ignoring mental distress at work.
13 December 2007
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 Measuring what counts
This paper is based on a seminar organised jointly by Sainsbury Centre and the Department of Health in 2009. It argues that public services do not routinely collect data on mental health inequalities and that the information they do collect is not used to its full potential. It calls for better information to be collected and used.
11 February 2010
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 A report by Employers’ Forum on Disability and Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
Three in ten employees will experience mental health problems during a year. The majority of people with mental health problems are willing and able to work. This report describes what employers and government could do differently that would make it easier to recruit people with mental health problems.
10 October 2007
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 Briefing Paper 40
Many people with mental health problems find it difficult to remain in employment and face isolation and discrimination in their workplaces. This briefing paper looks at the barriers to employment and at positive initiatives that are being undertaken.
22 July 2009
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 Towards a Better Way
Enabling a person with a history of offending to get and keep a job is probably the most effective intervention anyone can make to prevent reoffending and improve their chances of leading a better life. This policy paper examines how to improve the employment prospects of offenders with mental health problems.
02 September 2009
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This toolkit has been developed to help organisations address some of the issues around mental health at work and provide a framework for action, including developing a mental health promotion policy for your workplace.
05 September 2002
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 What is it, who can deliver it and who pays?
The Government wants to help millions of people with mental health problems to work. Vocational rehabilitation is whatever helps someone with a health problem to stay at, return to and remain in work. This paper argues that both taxpayers and employers gain from vocational rehabilitation and that both should pay for it. It looks at the other thorny, practical issues about vocational rehabilitation - what is it, who can deliver it, who pays?
08 December 2008
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 Briefing Paper 34
The journey towards long-term unemployment and disability often begins in the GP's surgery with the signing of a sickness certificate. This briefing paper looks at why this issue has become so important and at positive ways to address it.
20 September 2007
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