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Money & Advice
Guidance & Tools
See guidance & tools for other inclusive practices and domains
Various pieces of information on changes to social housing and housing benefit.
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Guideline for any EU Nationals who have no recourse to public funds.
This document outlines what type of benefits they may be able to access.
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Up My Street
Website providing detailed information of any given area, simply by typing in the postcode.
Information includes house prices, local services offered plus indepedent reviews of all services and amenities.
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Short briefing explaining the steps that can be taken for new applicants entering the Pathways to Work scheme.
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Personal Reviews and Local Information for Bromley
thebestof Bromley is your local site dedicated to providing you with everything you need to know about Bromley.
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Printable leaflet from the London Health Forum listing various debt-advice organisations.
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Produced by the London Borough of Bromley, this document is an excellent guide for people who have found themselves in financial difficulties, and includes many different options on how to get help and what steps to take.
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The Money Advice Liaison Group (MALG) has produced a set of Mental Health Awareness Guidelines.
These voluntary guidelines are designed to encourage good practice by creditor agencies, debt collection agencies and money/debt advisers in relation to working with people in debt who also have mental health problems, in order to ensure that proportionate and sensitive approaches are adopted for the mutual benefit of customer and creditor.
For a copy of the Guidelines, please click on the link below:
A concise directory ready to print out of Bromley services in relation to money and advice, produced by Develop with useful information and contact details.
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From 27 October 2008 Employment and Support Allowance replaces Incapacity Benefit and Income Support paid on incapacity grounds for new customers.
This section of the DWP website has all the key facts, downloads and guides for both services users and healthcare professionals.
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Protecting adults at risk from financial abuse
SCIE has published an assessment commissioned by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) highlighting the current and potential future threats to vulnerable adults in relation to economic crime. It covers a wide spectrum of potential financial abuse and exploitation by family members, care workers and others.
Moneymadeclear from the Financial Services Authority. When it comes to money, our impartial information and tools can help you work out what's right for you.
Includes step-by-step guides, tools and calculators and useful contacts.
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From the MoneySavingExpert.com website, Martin Lewis, Jenny Keefe and Marianne Curphey have written this guide offering help, information, guidance and support for individuals and carers.
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MoneySavingExpert.com
Website produced by the BBC's Martyn Lewis with hundreds of guides, tools and advice on how to find the best deals and looking after your finances.
Personally recommended by Develop editor Steve Cooksley!
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From the Citizen's Advice Bureau's website, the AdviceGuide, this information in this section gives you basic advice about debt and simple guidelines for dealing with money problems.
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Guidance from the DirectGov website.
Every adult with mental capacity has the right to agree to or refuse medical treatment. To make your advance wishes clear you can use a living will. Living wills can include general statements about your wishes, which aren't legally binding, and specific refusals of treatment called 'advanced decisions' or 'advance directives'.
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This booklet is for anyone who supports someone of working age with a mental health problem who is under the care of Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust. It contains useful information that will help you support the person you care for and gain support for yourself as a carer.
There are various downloadable leaflets that accompany the booklet, all which can be found here:
LSIP is a web-based, carer-run support group who are based in North London.
Their mission is to promote the voice of people who love someone in psychosis – ‘to help us help our loved-ones’.
Training presentation by Irene Cotterell of Develop Partner Horizon House, made initially to housing agency to raise awareness of mental health and how to use their knowledge to interact with appropriate clients.
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With the current turbulent economic climate and the cost of living getting higher and higher many are finding that managing personal finances and good mental health go hand in hand. Struggling to keep control of income and expenditure can affect mental health.
This section will help you look at issues that affect you and give you access to information and support about your money.
It will be useful for anyone concerned about their money but is especially helpful for people with experience of mental distress.
Visit money section of Mind's website:
Valuing Involvement: Making a Real Difference
One of the key areas HASCAS identified in their review of involvement within NIMHE was the need to develop national payments policy guidance to establish some consistency in the way that service users and carers are rewarded and reimbursed for their participation.
The payment and reimbursement policy guidance document has been designed to deliver that consistency, by providing a template from which CSIP/NIMHE Development Centres are able to produce policy documents tailored to their own needs.
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Factsheets, information and flowcharts detailing the process of migrating from incapacity benefits and subsequent personal capability assessments (PCAs).
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Community Legal Advice
Being detained in hospital under the Mental Health Act 1983 can be a frightening and confusing experience.
This booklet explains your rights if you or someone you know is detained under the admission procedure commonly known as "sectioning".
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A legal guide for practitioners
The Department of Health (DH) commissioned this work in late 2009, and the document is up to date to December 2010. The DH was responding to requests from practitioners for a comprehensive guide to the legal framework underpinning adult safeguarding work
This guide is aimed primarily at practitioners working in various settings for organisations involved in safeguarding. But it may also be useful for volunteers, family. It aims to equip practitioners with information about how to assist and safeguard people. Knowing about the legal basis is fundamental, because the law defines the extent and limits of what can be done to help people and to enable people to keep themselves safe.
This guide is intended to serve as a pointer to the law and to how it can be used. It tries to explain the law in reasonably simple terms, so it is selective and does not set out full details of each area of law covered. When it comes to the law, further advice will often be needed, but an awareness of it can help practitioners ask the right sort of question and explore possible solutions.
The Bromley Adult Protection Committee has developed these guidelines for the protection of vulnerable adults in the London Borough of Bromley who may be at risk of abuse.
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Everyone who is arrested by the police has three basic rights:
1. The right to consult with a solicitor, free of charge
2. The right to have someone informed of their arrest
3. The right to consult the Codes of Practice (a book about police powers and procedures).
However, a mentally vulnerable person also has an extra right to have an appropriate adult present to help. This factsheet, produced by rethink, provides information on this procedure.
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Time Out website guide
In these frugal times shopping is a guilty pleasure, yet saving money is easy when you give something in return.
A wealth of websites and council-run schemes have sprung up where the only thing that doesn't change hands is money.
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On Tuesday 6 April, 2010 the "Sick Note" was replaced by the "Fit Note".
The Sick Note stated whether a GP believed that a person should or should not be in work.
The new Fit Note will either say a person is not fit for work, or that they might be fit for work under certain circumstances.
What happens if you or your employer don't agree with the medical statement? Do sickness absence procedures need to be changed?
What are the implications for occupational sick pay schemes, or Statutory Sick Pay, or benefits?
Read more about the new Fit Note with these guides:
A guide to benefits and tax credits for mental health professionals.
The guide covers the various circumstances of people with mental health problems who want to work; whether they are living independently, with a partner, in hospital, supported housing or residential care.
The way to work has been written for mental health professionals but may also be helpful for people advising clients with other forms of disability. You do not have to have any prior knowledge of the benefit system to understand or use this guide.
Price is £8.50 per copy.
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Leaflet produced by JobCentre Plus explaining how you can volunteer whilst still receiving state benefits which should not be affected. Covers what is deemed as voluntary work and what isn't.
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