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Social Inclusion
Guidance & Tools
See guidance & tools for other inclusive practices and domains
The Ten Essential Shared Capabilities
Produced by the Department of Health, and developed in consultation with service users and carers together with practitioners, provide in one overarching statement, the essential capabilities required to achieve best practice for education and training of all staff who work in mental health services.
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An introduction for councillors
Roughly a quarter of the adult population will, at some point in their lives, experience mental distress. Mental health problems are some of the most common yet misunderstood conditions in society. Often, our ideas and opinions are based on misinformation and unfavourable media coverage.
Mental health is not just an issue affecting the NHS or the executive member for adult services, far away from the mainstream of council business. It should be a key priority for councils in terms of social services provision and in relation to social inclusion, regeneration and promoting educational achievement. As major employers in many areas, local authorities also have a duty to protect and promote the mental health of their employees.
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The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) have spent ten years listening and analysing the things you do to support people participate in community life. They fed the learning into training sessions for thousands of people in hundreds of organisations, and learnt some more.
The core ideas have now been formed into a training pack containing practical exercises, a worksheet, study cards and an extensive reference list. Apart from a pen or pencil, you need no fancy equipment to access over 100 ideas, stories and hints.
Please download the attached flyer below for more information
The Social Inclusion Training Pack is available from the National Development Team for Inclusion, price £20 plus £5 p+p (postal charges to countries outside the UK may vary).
Please contact the NDTi office to place your order for the training day and/or the Social Inclusion Training Pack.
Email: Pauline.White@ndti.org.uk or phone on (+44) 1225 787 981
Please note that Develop will be obtaining copies for mental health teams in Bromley - any team that wants more than one should contact us via info@developbromley.com
From the British Psychological Society's website is the Social Inclusion resource section, with documents, useful web-links and other materials including events, books and working groups.
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The team behind the Government Green Paper on the reform of care and support recently re-launched its website.
The site includes a blog by David Behan, the Director general of Social care at the Department of Health.
Please visit the site and feel free to leave comments:
SCIE Guide 29
This guide seeks to give readers some ideas about how to successfully change services in order to place people at the centre of their own care and support. It begins with a brief overview of the policy context and then moves on to a series of ‘how to’ sections.
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"About Time - Commissioning to transform day and vocational services" is a practical new toolkit to help those involved in commissioning mental health day and employment services published by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health.
Launched on 12th June 2008, About Time recognises the key role commissioners have in ensuring that necessary changes are made to day and vocational services and provides detailed guidance to assist them in this task.
It is the first step-by-step guide to re-commissioning day and vocational services and includes:
o How to review the services commissioners are currently paying for
o How to construct a vision of what new services might look like.
o How to develop a range of personalised services that will help people fulfil their hopes and ambitions.
About Time is based on the real experiences of commissioners in Southern England who have recently re-designed their services.
It costs £25 and can be ordered from the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health website:
Outcomes Framework for Mental Health Services
Development of the 2007 document published by NSIP, this useful framework has been designed to help commissioners and providers to monitor, evaluate and measure the effectiveness of day services for working-age adults with mental health problems.
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Commissioning guidance on day services for people with mental health problems
This guidance is designed to assist commissioners of mental health services in the refocusing of day services for working-age adults with mental health problems into community resources that promote social inclusion and the role of work and gaining skills in line with current policy and legislation.
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Practice-based evidence on how to set up networks to improve partnership working and achieve positive outcomes
This paper is aimed at all those who take part in, run or fund networks to bring about positive change for people with health and social care needs.
It focuses on the design of networks, based on what we found that successful networks are currently doing in practice.
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A concise directory ready to print out of Bromley services covering all life domains and inclusive practice areas, produced by Develop with useful information and contact details.
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From the Development Trusts Association's website's glossary, this is their definition of what is Social Inclusion.
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This toolkit has been put together by Develop partner Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; it's for thinking about developing an inclusive lifestyle after a period of hospitalisation.
Includes information about different organisations and sections on life domains.
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National Standards, Local Action
This document sets out the framework for all National Health Service organisations and social service authorities to use in planning over the next financial three years.
It looks to Primary Care Trusts and Local Authorities to lead community partnership by even closer joint working to take forward the NHS Improvement Plan.
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In from the margins
This report, from a coalition of Clinks, DrugScope, Homeless Link and Mind, highlights the plight of some of the most vulnerable people in Britain - adults with complex problems and multiple needs,who are consigned to the margins of society.
It illustrates the crucial role played by the voluntary and community sector (VCS) in providing support and essential services, especially as many adults with complex needs have difficult relationships with statutory services.
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Produced by Stepping Stones clubhouse in the US, the documents are as follows:
- This questionnaire is designed to be an all-round life assessment.
- Asks about how much people are doing in their lives, at what level, and what kind of help they're getting. Could be seen as a measure of social inclusion
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Making steps!
Mental Health Europe's campaign for the integration of people with mental health problems in all aspects of life.
Mental Health Europe - Santé Mentale Europe s a European non-governmental organisation committed to the promotion of positive mentalhealth, the prevention of mental distress, the improvement of care, advocacy for social inclusion and the protection of human rights for (ex)users of mental health services, their families and carers.
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Transition: Moving on Well
More children with complex health needs now live into adult life yet health services have not always recognised the need to prepare them for the move into adult services.
The guide builds on the guidance Transition: getting it right for young people, published in 2006, and A transition guide for all services, published in October 2007.
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This toolkit has been developed with the goal of bringing people experiencing poverty and social exclusion into the government's debate about tackling poverty.
The National Action Plans on Social Inclusion (NAPs) are part of a European initiative to make a decisive impact on poverty by 2010.
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Royal College of Nursing's Social Inclusion website
Provides an online resource for all nurses and health care assistants in all settings to support practice with excluded people and ‘hard to reach' communities.
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Produced through the National Institute for Mental Health (England) West Midlands Mental Health Development Centre, this planner has been developed to help you to plan and evaluate mental health promotion activity.
It is perhaps more suited to helping you plan and evaluate mental health promotion projects but may also be valuable in thinking about policy. It takes you through a straightforward planning process, highlighting issues to consider and posing questions to answer about your project at each stage.
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Questionnaire for users of mental health services covering all aspects of Social Inclusion in the community, at work, education etc.
Written by Theodore Stickley in conjunction with the service users of Nottingham.
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A resource to help plan and evaluate work in health and social care
This resource has been developed for people working in health and social care, including those with a role to help improve services at the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) and policy colleagues at the Health and Care Partnerships Directorate, Department of Health.
It aims to give people anoverview of what evaluation is, why it is important and how to plan and evaluate work well. The resource is structured in eight key sections to help you put evaluation into practice.
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This toolkit aims to demonstrate how a redesigned day service can promote social inclusion and foster recovery by playing an important role in supporting people's aspirations and to help them develop or regain meaningful and satisfying lives in the communities where they live.
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Making Inclusion Work
2003 resource pack from NIMHE, including contributions from Develop's Fabian Davis.
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The Social Inclusion Planner has evolved...
A Training Pack for Front Line Staff teams
We spent ten years listening and analysing the things you do to support people participate in community life. We fed the learning into training sessions for thousands of people in hundreds of organisations, and learnt some more. We built all it into a software package, and listened again as people wrestled with technical difficulties with the way the materials had been presented. The core ideas have now been formed into a training pack containing practical exercises, a worksheet, study cards and an extensive reference list. Apart from a pen or pencil, you need no fancy equipment to access over 100 ideas, stories and hints.
This pack, supported by your ability to learn, adapt and innovate, will broaden your repertoire and help you to do the right thing at the right time for each person you support. You will learn about new ways to offer support to individuals and communities so that they can get along together and enrich one another's lives.
The Social Inclusion Training Pack is available from the National Development Team for Inclusion, price £20 plus £5 p+p (postal charges to countries outside the UK may vary). People make best use of it when it they complete our training Strategies for supporting individuals to build connections and receive a copy of the pack at the end of the day.
Contact the NDTi office to place your order for the training day and/or the Social Inclusion Training Pack.
Email: Pauline.White@ndti.org.uk or phone on 01225 787 982
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With Inclusion in Mind
Produced by NDTi's Peter Bates for the Scottish Government, this document offers aspirational guidance on the implementation of the duties of local authorities under Sections 25-31 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. These Sections concern provision of care and support services as well as services to promote wellbeing and social development; the latter is often referred to, in shorthand, as ‘Section 26'.
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Using research evidence to inform service development for vulnerable groups
This guidance sets out principles for using research evidence to select and monitor services for vulnerable groups.
It is for professionals who have direct responsibility for designing, commissioning, providing or managing services for vulnerable groups. It is relevant to those in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
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