Marione + Stu + Emmanuella + Mattan + Danny + Lynzy + Luis + Christopher + Harry + Joe + Ireland + stop ECT +
What it's like to experience destitution
World health organisation + UN commit to zero psychiatric coercion
🇮🇪 How Ireland transformed democracy
In diversity there is beauty and strength
Maya Angelou
The scale of the problem - Yarmouth
Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’
Social Movements and NGOs: Can They Get Along?
The garden as refuge: The restorative power of green spaces and nature
“There’s this misconception that anarchism means chaos
But the term means ‘without rulers.’
We don’t expect people to organize for us
We organize for ourselves.”
Jen Angel
Lake Alice Psychiatric hospital
Can anyone defend this ?
Yet Electro Convulsive Treatment is still done worldwide + in the UK
Why do people turn a “blind” eye + say they can do nothing ?
Does that makes them complicit in the crime?
Wendy
Lucy Letby: Police urged to investigate hospital bosses for corporate manslaughter
STOP ELECTRO CONVULSIVE TREATMENT – PETITION – NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT !
We have made a petition – it has five supporters
The wording was not approved – so we have agreed amended wording – the UK petition is now published
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/633363
Electro convulsive treatment appears to be banned in some parts of Australia
https://www.madinamerica.com/2014/10/electro-convulsive-therapy-australian-children-banned/
There is an international petition which has got over 133 000 signatures
Our petition – original wording
Ban Electro convulsive treatment which is a sexist practice + causes great harm
FROM FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUESTS + OTHER SOURCES - EVIDENCE
https://e-voice.org.uk/friendship-group/
https://www.madinamerica.com/?s=electro+convulsive+treatment
https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/02/legal-protections-forced-ect/
Electro convulsive treatment is a human rights abuse + must stop now
Campaign Against ECT Gains Traction in UK
MPs call for ban on electric shocks as mental health treatment
In the Courts, a Partial Win for Informed Consent and ECT Justice
Why are we stuck in hospital ?
Number of autistic people in mental health hospitals: latest data
'Barbaric': Hundreds with learning disabilities kept locked up for years
Problem linked to local councils + housing? - Wendy
Dispatches : hospital undercover Are they safe?
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hospital-undercover-are-they-safe-dispatches
NO THEY ARE NOT
We have published the latest data set showing human rights abuse within the Mental Health system – please see below + the website for further details
Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents
community land trust – housing affordable
Healthy foundations: integrating housing as part of the mental health pathway
community powered NHS – animation
The real Tragedy of the Commons
We can reset the paradigm
We can move away from hyper-individualised accounts of people 'out for themselves' and work on creating the societal conditions for a community led approach
including Tolworth
A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality
LBRUT should follow Hartlepool’s lead?
Camden Health + care citizen’s assembly
LBRUT should follow Camden’s lead?
Achieving food security through land reform
Learning from other countries – energy
NHS paying £2bn a year to private hospitals for mental health patients
We could do so much with that money – Wendy
Inquiry investigates deaths of 1,500 NHS mental health patients in Essex
Not just Essex? - Wendy
“Where we are born into privilege, we are charged with dismantling any myth of supremacy.
Where we are born into struggle, we are charged with reclaiming our dignity, joy and liberation.”
“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future.
Solidarity requires commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground”
Can randomly selected citizens govern better than elected officials
The law in 60 seconds – legal aid for inquests video
Hillsborough law – duty of candour - would this help with our Freedom of information requests
Cannabis, ketamine and speed to be decriminalised in London by Sadiq Khan
A shorter working week for Europe
Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias
Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
Suman Fernando’s book Institutional racism in psychiatry + clinical psychology
Mental Health Act reform: race and ethnic inequalities
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn
People deprived of liberty due to misapplication of Mental Health + Capacity Acts
As a result of the Bournewood case the Mental capacity act came into being
The mental capacity act
Assume capacity
Best interest
Least restrictive
People can make what others would consider unwise decisions
Supported decision making
Capacity can easily be assessed
Can someone make a decision
Can they communicate the decision (not necessarily verbally)
Can they remember the decision
-Wendy-
Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report
Half of people with a learning disability and autistic people reluctant to provide feedback on care
The authority gap: why women still aren’t taken seriously
Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions
Pathologized Since Eve: Jessica Taylor on Women, Trauma, and “Sexy but Psycho”
Report Finds Monitoring of Electroshock Treatment Unsafe
New Study Finds ECT Ineffective for Reducing Suicide Risk
We can STOP ECT with lasting power of attorney
Provide Tapering Strips for People Who Want to Withdraw Safely from Psychotropic Drugs
NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal
Withdraw antidepressants gradually, says NICE draft guidance
NHS statistics show continuing rise in antidepressant prescribing
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression
Long-term antipsychotic use linked to breast cancer
Government review finds 10% of drugs dispensed in England are pointless
Sedated, How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis - James Davies +
CRACKED – why psychiatry is doing more harm than good
Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021
“Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”
The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
Why not Diagnose Social Conditions Instead of Individual Symptoms
Council of Europe Releases Report to Promote Voluntary Mental Health Treatment
The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health
Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support
How do we pay for a basic income
Welsh basic income pilot has been published
In a statement from Jane Hutt, Minister for Social Justice
The pilot will be targeted at care leavers
All young people leaving care that turn 18 over a 12-month period starting this summer will be invited to participate
That is expected to be about 500 people
Participants will receive the payments for 24 months starting from the month after their 18th birthday
A £1,600 a month basic income will be paid each month
Extending Welsh Universal basic income pilot to heavy industrial workers
VOTE FOR THIS EVEN IF NOT IN WALES
Twickenham repair cafe – 3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 to 13:30
BBC radio 4 Is psychiatry working?
well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education
£1 Concession Tickets for Kew Gardens
As part of their new 10-year strategy, Kew Gardens is committed to ensuring that cost is not a barrier to accessing their gardens in both Kew and Wakehurst.
They have introduced a new admission price of £1 for anyone on Universal Credit, Pension Credit or Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).
Visitors just need to present proof of their benefit on arrival to be eligible for the new concessionary ticket
All-in-one-hub
SPEAR – St.Mungo – CDARS – We are with you – MIND – CAB - DWP
every Thursday 11am-1pm
Richmond library annex
quadrant road
Richmond
TW9 1DH
FREE wellbeing support for the young LGBTQ community (age 11 to 25) in nature 🏳️🌈
Good Climate News from Good Energy
Your gardening update from the RHS
How you can help birds and other wildlife now
Transforming ordinary objects into gardening magic
Go behind the scenes at Conwy Suspension Bridge
Your gardening update from the RHS
Choose your Picture for December!
How to attract more birds to your garden
Your Grow Your Own news for November
Introducing our next major exhibition
November Foraging - Autumn Recipes
Your gardening update from the RHS
Must-sees to make your November brighter
South Downs News - November 2023 🍂
Waxwings, waders and woodland wonders
Community based organisations + community recommended organisations
Create, Debate and Imagine a different local democracy
CITIZENS: Why the key to fixing everything is all of us
Bring your ideas to Notwestminster 2023
F.E.E.L. - Friends of East End Loonies
Mad Pride campaign for psychiatric abolition
A Caring Mind | A blog for carers of mental health
Poverty eradication organisations + self-expression
Tell Government Benefit sanctions do not work
The Community Power Act in full
Joseph Rowntree foundation (JRF)
UK Poverty 2023: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
New analysis exposes impact of planned Universal Credit cut
Rashford targets a win on Universal Credit
what's causing structural racism in housing
A just transition to net zero is necessary, and key for maintaining public support
Paving the way for good jobs through participatory co-design
Including Navigating power dynamics within participatory projects + Where next for social security after recent Universal Credit announcements
Winning hearts and minds for decent, affordable housing
Families furthest below the minimum income standard excluded from social security gains
Inflation is pushing people deeper into poverty
Including housing ideas
Elections Bill could disenfranchise millions of voters
600,000 people pulled into poverty by Spring Statement
JRF welcomes Chancellor's cost of living measures
Anxiety nation Economic insecurity and mental distress in 2020s Britain
Join JRF to support and grow economic and social futures that work for everyone
A framing toolkit: How to talk about homes
Reboot: building a housing market that works for all
JRF's Budget response, the importance of ill health to the UK's labour market and more
talking about homes:the foundation for a decent life
designing out the most severe forms of hardship in local areas
including events – Wendy
Unpaid care and poverty: unpaid carers’ priorities for change through participatory co-design
Get insights into the cost of living in the UK with JRF's June newsletter
including participatory co-design
On the ‘frontline’ of poverty: how public services reinforce stigma
Democratic, community-led wealth building: the Boston Ujima Project and Seed Commons
Long-standing inequalities mean that households with a disabled person are falling behind
What key swing voters really think about deep poverty and hardship
Why benefits must rise to stop low-income households falling even further behind
Is work working? Read this year’s State of the Nation Poverty in Scotland report
New report reveals shocking levels of destitution in the UK
addressing poverty with lived experience (APLE)
Allow all people to work flexibly if they want to – PETITION
Sign the petition: We need an emergency budget that boosts Universal Credit now
Dignity - Compassion - Community
Why the design of Universal Credit is driving the need for food banks
What drove Steve to use a food bank
“We are receiving an increasing number of referrals from people who are struggling after the unexpected happens, for example if someone’s car breaks down.
Living in a rural area such a Rutland means having a car is not a luxury, it's a necessity; so, you must pay out for the car to be fixed otherwise you can’t take the kids to school, or drive yourself to work, however this can mean there is just no money left for the food.
People are having to make very, very difficult decisions day in, day out – just to survive.
When people who are working full-time jobs still can't feed their families, it really highlights that income levels are not matching the rising cost of living.
It's not just price rises on fuel, or electricity and food but every which way you turn prices are going up, but if wages or benefits don’t increase accordingly how can people possibly be expected to cope”
Dee Burton – volunteer Rutland Foodbank
everyone should be able to afford the essentials – EMAIL MP
a letter to the Prime Minister
Food banks see busiest ever April to September
Autumn Statement: Benefits will increase, but April is too long to wait
Government debt drives people to food banks
Universal Credit doesn't add up
it's time to Guarantee Our Essentials
1.5 million food parcels given out in 6 months – November 2023
Could you manage a cut to your income?
"Most days now I eat once a day. If there is not enough, I will have cereal or a slice of toast as my growing children are a priority. Last month they needed new coats that had to come first."
Paying your energy bills: help is at hand
A Marshall Plan for People and Planet Starts with Africa’s Green Recovery
Communities in Africa trek for weeks to survive drought
National Survivors User Network (NSUN)
NSUN is a great organisation with a great newsletter …
You can sign up to it here….
NSUN's strategic direction: redistributing power and resource in mental health
NSUN is now a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
NSUN also has a directory page here
Extracts from the newsletters ..
Music industry mentoring in Manchester
contact
referral@keychanges.org.uk
Listening space at Burton library 3rd + 5th Wednesday of the month
Add your support: statement against transphobic healthcare policy announcements
Ask your MP to oppose changes to the Work Capability Assessment
queer crip of colour critique reading group
The Future of Social Care: Book – FREE BOOK
Inquiry into young people and suicide
Podcast episode from Surviving Society's "The Role of Love in Social Justice Work" series
MPs launch inquiry into DWP safeguarding, after decade of deaths
An article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Bereaved by state violence: grief, solidarity and justice
A podcast by Deaths by Welfare via Apple Podcasts
‘Swimming Against the Tide: Navigating your way through dominant cultures’
A blog by Jessica Pons via Synergi
Tackling the erosion of compassion in acute mental health services
Article by Elisa Liberati, Natalie Richards, Sahanika Ratnayake, John Gibson, and Graham Martin in the BMJ
Blog by and via Stop Oxevision
NHS psychiatric wards are video monitoring children and adults 24 hours a day, sparking privacy fears
An article by Patrick Strudwick via iNews
Work Under Capitalism is Making Us Mad
An interview with Micha Frazer-Carroll via Tribune
The festival building a future free from oppression
An article by Micha Frazer-Carroll via huck
A blog by Fazilet Hadi via Disability Debrief
This new book examines whether capitalism really is driving us all mad
An interview with Micha Frazer-Caroll by by Adele Walton via Dazed
Calling some people a ‘burden’ provides a cover story for welfare state violence
An article by China Mills via Healing Justice Ldn
A blog by Julia Buxton via Asylum Magazine
mental health is not an individual problem
An interview by P.E Moskowitz with Micha Frazer-Carroll and via Mental Hellth
An article by China Mills and John Pring via Sage Journals
I do not want a seat at your table – co-production in mental health services
A blog by Amy Wells via the NSUN blog
Japan's Radical Alternative to Psychiatric Diagnosis
An article by Satsuki Ayaya andJunko Kitanaka via aeon
Neoliberalism, Security and the Politics of Mental Health
An event recording by Medact via YouTube
An Epistle of Cruelty: Life in the parallel shadow penal state of the DWP
An article via Recovery in the Bin
An article byRoisin Mooney, Clair Dempsey, Brian J. Brown, Frank Keating, Doreen Joseph and Kamaldeep Bhui via frontiers
Realizing Human Rights and Social Justice in Mental Health
A webinar series via TCI Global
NSUN authors chapter in new report on alternative solutions to serious youth violence
NSUN statement on NHSE's failure to publish joint policy with StopSIM
we call on NHS England to publish the joint StopSIM policy in full immediately
Open letter on self-harm and the Online Safety Bill: A call for caution, nuance, and care
Justice Won't Be Found In The Coroner's Court
An article by Wren Aves via Psychiatry Is Driving Me Mad
Secret DWP reports link more deaths with systemic flaws
An article by John Pring via the Disability News Service
It’s not my sense of self that's unstable, it’s the world’s sense of me: the harms of the construct of ‘personality disorders’ towards transgender communities
An article by Hattie Porter PsyArXic Preprints
Inequality and suicide
A report via Samaritans and the Suicide Prevention Consortium
Whose camera is it anyway? The use of body-worn cameras in acute mental health wards
An article by Alison Faulkner via The Mental Elf
“being with “ not “doing to” violence + harm + police involvement in mental health services
An article by NSUN via the NSUN blog
Psychiatric Incarceration Isn’t Treatment — It’s Violence, Survivors Say
An article By Leah Harris, Liat Ben-Moshe and Vesper Moore, via truthout
An article by Cathy Wield via Mad in the UK
Red Therapy collective – may day rooms
trans + non-binary peer support group – 2-4 pm third Monday
Single sex spaces: trans and non-binary service users’ experiences of single sex wards in mental health settings in England
peer support group for Punjabi women in Leeds age 55+ - 11 am forth Monday of each month in person
contact
sikhelders@touchstonesupport.org.uk
Approaching the question "What was madness before psychiatry?"
An article by Sasha Durakov Warren via Of Unsound Mind
We Are Not Weird “Others”: Lived-Experience Perspectives of Genital and Breast Self-Harm
An article by Wren Aves via Psychiatry is Driving Me Mad
Your Right to Protest As A Disabled Person
An article via Liberty
Healing Imaginations
A new digital library of healing imaginations
Book Review – The Muslim, State and Mind
A book review by Leila via the NSUN blog
“health is capitalism’s vulnerability”
An article by Megan Linton via briarpatch Magazine
A podcast by Voices Heard, Lives Empowered via Soundcloud
are women really more mentally ill than men? As a psychologist , I’m not so sure
An article by Sanah Ahsan via the Guardian
full-time feminist, part time madwoman ….and striker – when + how ?
An article by Marta Plaza via Pikara Magazine
how I should be cared for in a mental health hospital
Resources by the Restraint Reduction Network
we call on NHS England to publish the joint StopSIM policy in full immediately
amplify – understand – influence
surviving suicide peer to peer support art group
hand in hand peer travel buddy – mind Islington
A review by Colin Hambrook via Disability Arts Online
DWP’s link to suicide ‘should be examined by second inquest’, Court of Appeal is told
An article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Galop launches the UK’s first ever LGBT+ Rape and Sexual Abuse Helpline
Lothlorien Therapeutic Community
If you would like to review the book for NSUN just let NSUN know
Awareness-Raising Workshops for Communities
Death of a Customer: Deaths by Welfare Podcast
A podcast via Healing Justice Ldn.
Do you know of any groups, networks or individuals who do hospital visits for people on mental health wards?
If you know of anyone, or have any thoughts on this as an idea, please contact Wendy at
wmicklewright@yahoo.co.uk with details (including whether the people you know of are region-/hospital-specific).
Please also copy in
if you wish.
Many thanks
NHS trusts are still using harmful mental health practices, secret reviews show
report – funding grassroots mental health work
Hold The Huntercombe Group/Active Care Group accountable for the harm of patients - PETITION
Call for a Statutory Public Inquiry into Psychiatric Units Throughout the Whole of the UK - PETITION
Fighting for Justice - Families calling for a Statutory Public Inquiry into MH Services – PETITION
Disabled Peoples' Organisations
MH reform must go further : MPS + Peers are told
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
support for user-led plan to replace universal credit .. + treat all claimants with respect
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Can stigma help to eradicate poverty?
An article by Dr China Mills via the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
An article by Hattie Porter, Jay Watts and Jee Smith via PsyArXiv Preprints
free our people now new campaign + network
Simone Aspis - Free Our People Now Project Manager on
simone.aspis@inclusionlondon.org.uk
or 07749 892 843
over the Ting initiative
Please contact Chuks Agu for dates/times of meetings - chuks1111@yahoo.com or 07360149283
Video series by Decolonising Economics on racial hierarchies, collective healing, disability justice, and economics of queerness
Report on draft mental health bill by peers and MPs ‘is seriously flawed’
An article by John Pring via Disability News Service
state violence + distress – the false separation between migrant justice + mental health
Blog by Rose Ziaei via NSUN
why health inequalities need to be addressed for the specific community
Blog by Sukhjeen Kaur via Shaping Our Lives
trauma-informed care left me more traumatised than ever
Blog by Wren Aves via Psychiatry is Driving Me Mad
the police failed my cousin – Gaia Pope – 5 years on, others like her are still at risk
Article by Marienna Pope-Weidemann via The Guardian
DWP dismisses 300 pages of evidence linking its actions with countless deaths
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
help us document evidence of welfare – related death
Barriers to Mental Health Support for People of Colour and Migrants
Article by Micha Frazer-Carroll via NSUN
Mental Health and the Politics of Exhaustion in the UK Asylum Process
Blog post by Tianne Haggar via University of Oxford's Border Criminologies
New podcast – lived experience work: anti-racism & mental health
E158 Rianna Walcott: The Colour of Madness
Podcast by Surviving Society
What it feels like inside the work – politicised somatics and racial justice
An article by Alex Augustin via Healing Justice Ldn
Peer Chat with Vikki Price: Developing Peer Roles
A podcast episode via Making Recovery Real
The politics of LGBT+ suicide and suicide prevention in the UK: risk, responsibility and rhetoric
An article by Hazel Marzetti,Amy Chandler,Ana Jordan and Alexander Oaten via Taylor & Francis Online
Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, & Healthcare
An audio series via Urban Health Council
Alternatives to mental health crisis support: are we asking the right questions?
An article by Akiko Hart via the NSUN blog.
Community accountability peer support hub (CASH)
Are you in groups that are trying to move away from punishment as a way of dealing with problems in society
Do you think that it’s important for your group to deal with harms that happen to people within the group
It can feel easier to hope for a neat solution, in the form of a person or people, who can parachute into a situation and 'fix' it for us.
While this might be understandable — this stuff is hard — this treats community accountability like a service that can be provided for us rather than community-led and community-created processes or a set of shared values and practices that we build together.
Join us to talk about the impetus to “outsource” community accountability work, why this should be resisted, and how we all can integrate community accountability into our everyday organising.
MIND should include side effects in their research surveys - PETITION
alternative support resource list – Asylum
rainbow of promise: Poetry book
Call to action – catalyst 4 change
Unpicking the complex dynamics of racism, anti-Blackness and class within mental health services
Article by Mental Health Today via LinkedIn ft. Mary Sadid from NSUN
The Communication and Restraint Reduction Study
Blog by Colin King via NSUN
Why don’t they ask us The role of communities in levelling up – Institute for Community Studies
Provide Tapering Strips for People Who Want to Withdraw Safely from Psychotropic Drugs
NICE Guideline Update Acknowledges Severe Antidepressant Withdrawal
Petition to Scrap Care Charges Inclusion London
Coronavirus and depression in adults, Great Britain: January to March 2021
“Almost 4 in 10 adults earning less than £10,000 a year experienced depressive symptom compared with around 1 in 10 earning £50,000 or more”
The data shows what we know to be true: struggling with your mental health doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
The state of disability benefit assessments and the urgent need for reform - #peoplebefore process
Guidance on community mental health services: Promoting person-centred and rights-based approaches
World Health Organisation (WHO) – NSUN’s response
Lived Experience Practioners Revolution - New Website
universal credit: what needs to change to make it fit for children and families
Mental Health Act: Call for "unequivocal commitment " to improve access to advocacy
Disability Benefits Research 2021 – Survey
Update on FOI Requests: Who's Ballin' & Who's Stallin
To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must Fundamentally Change Society
Article by Mark Brown via Novara Media – Listen to the piece here
Blog by Akiko hart via Charity so White
Graceful resolve: Attitudes for navigating a psychological crisis
Article by Amy Pollard via Centre for Mental Health
Blog by MiserySquid via Mad Covid
Podcast with Rai Waddingham via Mad Tunes Podcast
Disability strategy is unlawful, court confirms… and denies DWP permission to appeal
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service
Sometimes I want to be unreasonable
Blog via Mad Covid
Free advice – for upholding adults' Health and Care Act rights
+ Jobs + Funding + MUCH MUCH MORE
Build Back Fairer in Greater Manchester: Health Equity and Dignified Lives
Survivor Researcher Network (SRN)
UNCRDP Westminster Government civil society shadow report sign up
URGENT – Email your MP to help avoid catastrophic care costs
Help Disabled people survive the cost of living crisis – write to your MP
Take action to stop energy companies from imposing prepayment meters on disabled people – EMAIL MP
why participatory budgeting works
A quiet revolution, involving young people, and more
Meaningfully involving public contributors in research
Rehearsing freedoms and Moving Mountains
including lots of events
Connect with creatives – AMENDMENT TO LINK
Violence abuse + Mental Health Network
A briefing for Integrated Care System Leaders
Don't get angry, get politically active
including events
Z2K – fighting poverty – EMAIL MP
Z2K has caseworker to help people
We need your help
Nearly half of all people in poverty in the UK are either disabled themselves or live with someone who is disabled
EDM 19 disability benefits assessments – CONTACT MP
Homelessness + renter organisations
Awaab’s law - to prevent any more children dying from damp and mouldy social housing - PETITION
New guidance for housing management teams
Housing First England Newsletter – New Survey Alert
Housing First England Newsletter – Minister responds to funding request
Housing First England Newsletter – Join our call for a national Housing First programme
Housing First England Newsletter – Commissioning Housing First through RSI budgets
including setting out core milestones along someone’s Housing First journey
Housing First 2022 year-end update: A year of progress
Guidance on transferring Housing First providers
Housing First for Women: valuable lessons
Scotland's Housing First Pathfinder evaluation
Suicide Prevention and Postvention
including Andy Burnham
Housing First for Youth (HF4Y) is a rights-based intervention for young people who are experiencing, or at risk of homelessness, adapted from the Housing First approach
It is already popular in Canada, Wales, Ireland and Scotland – where the Rock Trust is a good example
It has the potential to be extremely effective in England
We have published a new web page that collates important resources on this unique intervention, to support services or commissioners interested in or providing HF4Y
Richmond has more homeless – August 2023
Amanda
The council moved Amanda and her children between 11 different temporary accommodations in the space of two months Many weren’t safe
Some didn’t have indoor locks or kitchens
And one was a 7 hour round trip just to get her son to school
Amanda was told if she didn’t move again and again then her and her family would lose their duty of care
It was an impossible situation
Amanda got in touch with Shelter and I saw first-hand how bad her family’s living conditions were
I offered practical advice and supported Amanda in launching a legal challenge against the council
Standing side by side with Amanda, we stood up for her family and won
The council finally offered her a permanent social home
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Demand better from renting – PETITION
Meet Krystalrose – she's fighting for change
Let’s build a better future: Call on the government to build social housing - PETITION
Homelessness is spiralling
There are over 290,000 households facing homelessness in England
That’s a rise of 6% compared to the year before
Data for June 2023
Are letting agents refusing you for being on benefits
Next step contact the property ombudsman (TPO)
London Assembly Unanimously Passes Motion on Affordable Housing for Care and Support Workers
A good Home is a human right
Level Up Housing
On the 2nd Feb 2022, the government released its plans to ‘level up’ the country.
It included three very important announcements on housing:
Build more genuinely affordable social homes ✔
Give tenants of social homes more protection ✔
Bring forward a national landlord registry, improve standards in privately rented homes and strengthen the rights of renters ✔
Gove ‘ashamed’ of Social Housing conditions
send a letter to the press :renters stories are powerful
Cold weather advice: How to help someone sleeping rough
It isn’t always easy to know how to help if you meet someone sleeping on the streets. Here are four things you can do:
Say hello and ask if they'd like help
Sleeping rough can be a lonely experience, so a chat or a friendly 'hello' can make a real difference
Tell street link
https://www.streetlink.org.uk/
Ask if they'd like you to contact StreetLink to connect them to local services and emergency support
If they require urgent medical attention, call 999
Ask if they would like expert advice.
Visit
https://england.shelter.org.uk/get_help
to find advice on how they can get help from the council - or show them how to get in touch with our advisers
Ask if they need anything
You could offer warm clothing or some blankets, or to buy food and a hot drink
Just check they're happy to receive the items first
75,000 women and their families are homeless in England
March 2023
There are 271,000 people without a home in England. 123,000 of those are children.
March 2023
the eight biggest housebuilders in this country made over £7.7 billion in profit in 2021 and 2022 -PETITION
131,000 children without a home in England – August 2023
Unfreeze housing benefit – VIDEO
Party leaders: stop ignoring the housing emergency - SIGN
Anti-racism and the general election
I’m being evicted – EMAIL MINISTER
octopi have three hearts and produce their own ink yet humans call octopi violent for throwing seashells underwater
humans also medicate confined creatures for 'zoochosis' - that antipsychotic medication first tested on animals gave us our 2 heart-attacks as 'side-effects'.
bleak humour is proven to aid survival. heartfelt is about reframing narratives & learning to grow. a game of competitive empathy will be played; psychiatry will be reduced to firewood; edible-love-poetry will be offered to all.
have a heart, & come watch this wildly inventive disability-led solo theatre show
Don't leave young people out on the streets – PETITION
If a rent freeze had been in place...I would have been able to stay in my home
We beat my landlord. Now let’s take on the system.
Be a part of challenging 'Right to Rent' in court
Contact rowan@leighday.co.uk
We're campaigning to make sure councils #SideWithRenters
increasing regulation of landlords, expanding landlord licensing and hiring more enforcement officers
reducing attempts to move people out of the borough and reducing use of “intentional homelessness” decisions
campaigning for rent controls
setting stronger targets on social housing and standing up to developers
Is your landlord trying to put your rent up You’re not alone
landlords and estate agents are using the cost of living crisis as an excuse to push up rents
members have been reporting rent rises of 30% or 40%
One member was even asked to pay 70% more rent
Some housing associations are talking about putting up service charges
It is a shameful attempt by people who already make huge profits from the housing crisis to squeeze renters and boost profits
Many of us now face eviction or being left without enough for basic essentials this winter
10 November 2022 – the average rent increase being reported by LRU members is £3300 per year
New data reveals Foxton's rent rises
We're resisting evictions in the streets and in Parliament
Evicted after 47 years – PETITION
Safe, secure and affordable homes for all: A renters’ blueprint for reform
It’s coming up to four years since a Conservative government first announced its plans to reform the private rented sector under Theresa May, and, four Prime Ministers later, renters are still waiting
households now rent across England and Wales - more than doubling since 2001
Yet, standards and regulation have not kept up, as:
people privately renting now struggle to pay their rent each month, as rents continue to rise at the
since records began
private rentals in England fail to meet decent home standards, forcing people to live in homes that pose a risk to their health and/or are in disrepair
people privately renting are currently under the threat of eviction, up 80% from last year
Such insecurity directly impacts people’s health and wellbeing, with private renters being
to suffer symptoms of anxiety
These shocking figures highlight why action on affordability, safety and security in the private rented sector is more important than ever
If you are affected by any of these issues, do get in touch and we can point you in the direction of where to access support.
The White Paper: Generation Rent's Verdict
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: National Register of Landlords
Ask your MP to back the Renters Reform Bill
Tell your MP to join the debate on renters reform
Private renters in nine London boroughs face paying half of their income or more on rent, analysis by campaign group Generation Rent has found.
Rent on the typical two-bedroom home costs 45% of a full-time salary in London.
Campaigners say this pushes families into poverty and financial stress, and makes it harder to save or to start a family.
Paying more than a third of your income in rent is considered unaffordable.
Generation Rent is calling on the next Mayor of London to lead a campaign to demand powers from the government to reduce rents.
Measures would include freezing rents within tenancies, to give tenants more certainty, a rent control system that aims to reduce rents overall, and tough penalties for landlords who break the rules, overseen by a city-wide Rent Control Board.
In March 2020, the rent on the median 2-bedroom home in London was £1450 and the median full-time salary was £38,592.
That would mean that a single-earner family with a baby would be spending 45% of their earnings on rent.
The situation is worst in inner London, Newham and Haringey where this figure is above 50% and reaches 76% in Westminster.
The most affordable borough is Bexley, with median rent worth 33% of the median full-time salary.
However, affordability has improved over the last five years, with just five boroughs – Camden, Greenwich, Havering, Redbridge, and Westminster – becoming less affordable since 2015.
Alicia Kennedy, Director of Generation Rent, said: “High rents force people into poverty and make it almost impossible to save towards the future.
No one should have to spend more than 30% of their income on rent, yet this is a reality for most Londoners who are stuck in the private rented sector.
“Londoners urgently need bold action to make renting more affordable. Investment in housebuilding is needed to make renting more affordable long-term, but rent controls would offer immediate protection and relief.”
Join our Day of Action - #RentersAreWaiting - PETITION
Since March 2020, 8% of private renters who responded to a Survation survey had received a Section 21 notice from their landlord, which would represent 694,000 private renters across England.
Nearly a third of those surveyed (32%) said they were concerned about the possibility of their landlord asking them to move out this year, which would represent 2.78m private renters across England.
The survey was commissioned by Generation Rent, with results published this week.
We need a COVID Rent debt fund - PETITION
Join us in preventing a homelessness crisis – PETITION
A new report, 'A safe place to call home: Ending unfair evictions for good'.
The report sets out the changes the Government must make to ensure every renter has access to a stable home where they can put down roots and thrive.
You can read all about the report here.
We are calling for:
Open ended tenancies
More time to find a new home
Compensation for a blameless move
No excessive rent increases to force an eviction
No mandatory evictions for people in rent debt
Close the holiday let tax loophole – PETITION
Renters are being forced out of their homes to make way for more lucrative holidaymakers.
We have been able to get the research done to prove it
In the last two years rental listings in Wales and South West England have halved and rents have gone up by around 25%.
That's one of our findings that have been reported in today's i newspaper
In North Devon there are 2,591 short-term holiday lets but just 21 private rental listings on Rightmove and 30 on Zoopla.
In Gwynnedd, Wales, there are 4,007 holiday lets but just 99 homes for private tenants.
The collapse in the supply of homes to rent are pricing renters out of their local communities – away from their family and friends.
Renter reform coalition – EMAIL MP
Campaign win Government to require landlords to register
tell your MP to get renting done
Are you eligible for the Warmer Homes scheme
"It was like living in a sewer" - watch Kyron's video
Foxtons: ripping off renters with illegal fees. Help us stop them – PETITION
Private Renters Survey Summer 2023
how many people are homeless near you?
Every 10 minutes one Londoner is forced into homelessness – August 2023
Helping rough sleepers – PETITION
Close the eviction loophole – PETITION
You can sign a petition without making a donation
Cardboard Citizens: Survey for Members
Access Free Energy Bill Support
Housing Crisis Affecting LGBTQ+ Communities
Groundswell partnership | Chris speaks to Streetwise Opera | Resistance Theatre audio plays
Theatre craft - UK's Largest Free Careers Event for 16 - 30 year old – 20 November
young writer in residence (18-24) Whitechapel gallery – 4 December
Actor call out
contact
community check in every Friday 11am
WATCH: Eight brand new short films about social housing
supporting rough sleepers in cold weather – what the public can do …
In March 2023, 53% of rough sleepers in our boroughs were sleeping rough for the first time
THE COST OF LIVING IS A HUGE MENTAL TRIGGER AND HUGE MENTAL STRAIN
NOT JUST FOR A FEW CLIENTS THIS IS ACROSS THE BOARD
When clients move into their own properties they can’t afford the basics like pots – pans – cutlery
The cost of living crisis is having a huge impact for all our clients
It doesn’t matter if they are working or on benefits the crisis is putting a strain on everyone
The money people are putting on their electric meter is only lasting half the time it used to and it’s not even winter yet
I also have clients who have not had credit on their phones for months as they haven’t had money to top up.”
Sarai Knight - SPEAR Resettlement Team Leader
Severe Weather Emergency – Glass Door update
Creative + nature + advocacy
Dragon cafe have hosted laughing therapy + wire sculpture activities in the past
Groundwork is a federation of charities mobilising practical community action on poverty and the environment across the UK.
We’re passionate about creating a future where every neighbourhood is vibrant and green, every community is strong and able to shape its own destiny and no-one is held back by their background or circumstances.
START THE NEW YEAR WITH A WARMER HOME
Charities unite to urge for a green and resilient response to the gas crisis
Apply for a One Stop University Scholarship
From The Ground Up – Empowering communities through environmental action
Stop gambling suicides – publish the gambling act white paper – PETITION
No more Gambling Act whitepaper delays. Write to your MPs now
Everton FC: Don’t use our shirt to advertise gambling products
Me and You and a Global Pandemic
Medicating Me: Personal Impressions of Psychiatric Medication
reflections on advocacy during Covid
National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTI)
Leeds Autism AIM: #PowerOfPartnership
NAC – Guidance regarding emotional enrichment
Staying mentally well this winter
Audit of MH services – PLEASE COMPLETE
This resource helps mental health services think about how to provide a good service to autistic people and people with learning disabilities
There’s more information about it at Green Light Toolkit – NDTi
Small Supports – Thinking Differently About How We Support People
Join the NHS Sounding Board for Ageing & Older People
Review into advocacy for people with a learning disability and or autistic people who are inpatients in mental health settings
contact
The Training Hub has launched…
Seni’s Law – Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018
New supported internships programme
New case law – highlight for Care Act advocates
strength based approaches training
Mental health - a growing public health priority and human rights imperative
Research on homelessness and neurodiversity
12% of people experiencing homelessness are autistic - compared to 1-2% of the general population
Driving change through human rights
Human rights belong to all of us – when they are not met – it is our responsibility to speak up + ask the law to follow
People organised + information
Connected Kingston – including providing information about Legal drop-in clinic + welfare benefits information
Connected Kingston Autumn 2023 Newsletter
"How Big Pharma & Psychiatry Gaslight Us"
hearing voices family + friends group
The First LGBTQIA+ Peer Respite in the Country
The Hearing Voices Approach - Get Involved
Mad in the Family Monthly Newsletter
Concern as Proportion of Children in England on Antipsychotics Doubles
Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm
Some people can not afford to “recover” ?
Community land trusts + Universal basic income – NOW ? - Wendy
Teen Arts Exhibition Now Live!
Chris Bullard—The Sound Mind Live Festival
A Revolution Wobbles: Will Norway’s “Medication-Free” Hospital Survive?
Medication-free Ward in Tromsø, Norway May Soon Close
newsletter here
An Interview with Narrative Psychiatrist Bradley Lewis
Changing Narratives: Reflecting on Mad in America’s Mission and Work
Ten Years of Rocking the Boat: Reflecting on Mad in America’s Mission and Work
Mad in America’s 10 Most Popular Articles in 2022
Should Everyone Be in Therapy?
A new study finds that those with mild distress are three times as likely to feel worse after therapy than to receive some benefit Even those with moderate distress are equally as likely to deteriorate as to improve in therapy
JAMA Psychiatry: Lifting Families out of Poverty May Prevent Psychosis
In Nicaragua, Trauma and Faith Shape Understanding of Psychosis
Social Determinants in Global Mental Health: Beyond Pills and Psychotherapy
WHO and UN Advocate for Mental Health Reform, Face Opposition
Rethinking Culture and Colonialism in the History of Global Mental Health
Stigma: But What if I Don’t Want to Be Like Everyone Else?
Cancer Risk Higher for Those on Clozapine
The Radical Politics of Madness: An Interview with Micha Frazer-Carroll
Branding Diseases—How Drug Companies Market Psychiatric Conditions: An Interview with Ray Moynihan
Antidepressants Have Destroyed My Sexual Function and Range of Emotions
Social Mobility Causes Distress and So Does the Neoliberal Imperative to Pursue Wealth and Status
Why Isn’t There a Popular Hashtag for Involuntary Commitment
Risks Outweigh Benefits for Antidepressants in Elderly, Study Concludes
Neoliberalism Meets Techno-Solutionism: Investigating the Dynamics of Digital Psychiatry
Martin Harrow: The Galileo of Modern Psychiatry (1933 – 2023)
In addition, global outcome for the group of patients with schizophrenia who were on antipsychotics was compared with the off- medication schizophrenia patients with similar prognostic status
Starting with the 4.5-year follow-up and extending to the 15- year follow-up
the off-medication subgroup tended to show better global outcomes at each follow up
I conclude that patients with schizophrenia not on antipsychotic medication for a long
period of time have significantly better global functioning than those on antipsychotics
Breaking Down Power Structures in Global Mental Health: A Call for Mutuality
Nut Consumption Linked to Lower Risk of Depression in New Study
Researchers Call on Psychiatry to Abandon Biomedical Framework
Psychiatry’s Control-Freak Medical Model Versus Healing and Healers
Institutional Forces Eroding Compassion in Mental Health Services
The Connection Between ‘Bipolar Disorder’ and Migraine: Unraveling the History of a Family Line
Should “the powers that be “ ignore the ruling in Law – USA – regarding Electro convulsive “treatment”?
Wendy
Critical Psychology Needed to Combat Capitalism and Climate Change
Without Liberation Psychology, Therapy Reinforces the Status Quo
Can ChatGPT Defend the Long-term Use of Antipsychotics?
Probiotics Show Promise as Depression Treatment
Reframing Psychiatric History with Service-User Activist Accounts
Breaking Blind: Antipsychotic Drug Efficacy May Be Overestimated
Borderline Personality Disorder “No Longer Has a Place in Clinical Practice”
No Difference in Antidepressant Effectiveness After Genetic Testing
Why Does Research Focus on Treating Depression Rather Than Preventing It?
Human Rights Education can Shift Medical Students’ Perspectives on Psychiatry
A Call for Critical Approaches to Cognitive Psychology
Involuntary Commitment for Substance Use Disorder Leads to Poor Outcomes
Tim Wilson: It's Time for Soteria: An Australian Perspective
Systemic Racism Exacerbates Psychosis Risk for People of Color in the US
What Is the Risk of Permanent Sexual Dysfunction from Antidepressants?
Lithium in Drinking Water Linked to Autism
Alzheimer’s Drugs Cause Brain Shrinkage
Lancet Psychiatry: We Are Undervaluing the Placebo Effect
A New White Paper Presents the Case Against Forced Treatment
Mad Studies Needed to Decolonize Global Mental Health
What Psychosis Researchers can Learn from the Compassionate Approach to Psychedelic Experiences
Global Push for Human Rights in Mental Healthcare Gains Momentum
Study Under Fire for Harmful Language Targeting Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals
Unpaid Labor Takes a Toll on Women’s Mental Health, Study Reveals
The Hidden Injuries of Oppression
What Is Informed Consent, and What Should I Know to Help My Child?
Listen to the Victims: Senate Holds Hearing on Guardianship
Will Mather The State Power Triangle and My Spiritual Awakening
The Hidden Risks of School Mental Health Programs
Forced Opioid Tapering Leads to Worse Outcomes for Patients
Institutional Barriers and Tokenism in Participatory Mental Health Research
Challenging Western-Centric Child Psychology: An Interview with Nandita Chaudhary
Beyond Apologies: Research Reveals How Psychological Discourse Perpetuates Racism
Campaign Against ECT Gains Traction in UK
In the Courts, a Partial Win for Informed Consent and ECT Justice
MPs call for ban on electric shocks as mental health treatment
Mental Health Awareness Campaigns May Actually Lead to Increases in Mental Distress
Alarming Overprescription Patterns for Older Adults on Antidepressants
LGBTQIA+ Peer Respites: The Personal Is Political
Racial Justice and Lived Experience in Mental Health Advocacy: An Interview with Pata Suyemoto
Project LETS: Building Peer-Led Mental Health Alternatives on Campus
Physical Activity Improves Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety
Mental Health Care More System-Centered Than Person-Centered
New Guidance on Antidepressant Withdrawal for Doctors in the UK
First Do No Harm: Restraining the Restrainer
No Benefit for Adding Antidepressants to CBT in Severe Depression
Supernatural Beliefs Must be Understood to Treat Psychosis in Pakistan
Is Grief a Disorder? New Research Challenges the Psychiatrization of Mourning
Nature as Partner, Not Resource: A Call for Ethical Treatment of Therapeutic Environments
Threatened for Telling the Truth: Polish Journalist Speaks Out
Beyond Labels and Meds—Closer Look: HoJin Kwak
Black Movement Leaders: Lost & Found
We’re Obsessed with Labelling Suffering, But Our Power to Think about it Matters More
ECT Does Not Seem to Prevent Suicide
Declining Youth Mental Health May Be Driven by Increased Abuse and Bullying
Most Psychopharmacology Textbooks Have Financial Conflicts of Interest
Stigma and Expected Retaliation Drive Suicide Among Military Sexual Trauma Survivors
Psychology’s Reckoning with Racism and Mass Incarceration
Chemicals Have Consequences—Antidepressants and Pregnancy: An Interview With Adam Urato, MD
One Flew Over the Scientific Consensus’ Nest—The Story of Dr. Ophir and ADHD
Overcoming Social Barriers as a Writer with a Disability
A New Paradigm for Testing Psychiatric Drugs Is Needed
Antidepressants Blunt Emotions and Cause Sexual Dysfunction
Fernando de Freitas: A “Dear Friend” Who Was a Warrior for Radical Change
We Must Not Remove Legal Protections for People at Risk of Forced ECT
Researchers Question the Foundational Assumptions of Neuropsychology
Becoming a Peer Support Worker can Improve Insight and Resilience, Study Finds
Governmental Climate Action Ignores Disability—Researchers Don’t Have To
How to do Inclusive Research When ‘Legal Capacity’ for Informed Consent is Questioned
Mental Health Peer Workers Support Recovery After Inpatient Hospitalization
Disability Justice Goes Beyond the Social Model
Leading Psychiatrists Unwittingly Acknowledge Psychiatry Is a Religion, Not a Science
I Can Barely Breathe: Personal Story by Lori Daniels
The Faulty Reasoning That Turned ADHD Into a Disease
UK Suicide Prevention Policies Prioritize Surveillance Over Social Change
Seriously Misleading Network Meta-analysis in Lancet of Acceptability of Depression Pills
Problem-Solving Through Skills-Building: Motivating Kids to Change
Researchers: ECT Study in Children Methodologically Flawed, Ethically Concerning
Consumer Advisory Board Chair: NYC Mayor Adams Did Not Consult With Us on New Mental Health Policy
Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, and Benzos All Increase Suicide Attempts in New Study
Prolonged Negative Impacts of Benzodiazepine Use Revealed in New Study
The Bipolar Rollercoaster: Looking Beyond the Labels
disturbing references to ECT – Wendy
Dubious Science: Downplaying the Risks of Antidepressants in Pregnancy
Psychotherapy: Less Expensive and Better Than Pills, It’s What the Patients Want but Don’t Get
Pathologized Since Eve: Jessica Taylor on Women, Trauma, and “Sexy but Psycho”
Catherine’s Story: A Child Lost to Psychiatry
Psychiatry’s Cycle of Ignorance and Reinvention: An Interview with Owen Whooley
Author of On the Heels of Ignorance
Psychiatry and the Politics of Not Knowing
Call for Teen Art in All Media
Teen Arts Exhibition: Beyond Labels And Meds: What It Feels Like To Be Me
Living Together – With More Resilience and Less Medication
Art and Transformation: Creating Justice in Mental Health
Negatively Charged: ECT and the Truth I Could Never Forget
And Now They Are Coming for the Unhoused: The Long Push to Expand Involuntary Treatment in America
research in Manchester – UK – shows 80% of people on Mental health wards were homeless – Wendy
What Psychiatry Has Done for Me
Jim Flannery – sorry it is not funny
Is Service-User Research Possible in Mental Health An Interview with Diana Rose
David Healy – Polluting Our Internal Environments: The Perils of Polypharmacy
Lithium Use Leads to Chronic Kidney Disease
Mindfulness as Effective as Lexapro for Anxiety
Higher Psychosis Rates in Transgender Population Likely Due to Minority Stress and Clinician Bias
Voice-Hearers Unfairly Perceived as Unreliable Reporters of Their Own Experiences
A Return to Dignity from Psychiatric and Childhood Abuse
Why We Urgently Need New Approaches to Mental Health
The Spravato Controversy: A Row Over the Drug’s Efficacy Compels a Reassessment of its Approval
Breaking Academia’s Silence on Inpatient Psychiatry: An Interview with Researcher Morgan Shields
The Serotonin Zombie: Authors of New Study Try to Breathe New Life into the Dead
Laura L: A Troubled Teen With a Pocket Full of Lithium and Nowhere to Go
Racism and Coercion in First Episode Psychosis Treatment Fuels Loneliness and Mistrust
Iva Paska: Are We Witnessing the Emergence of a New Paradigm
Charlotte Beale: 6 Good Things That Happened When I Stopped Believing in ‘Mental Health’
I Had No Idea That Gabapentin Could Do This…
do not worry – you will be fine
Top 10 Myths About the Critics of Psychiatry
Mad Parenting: On Becoming an Unlikely Family Man
The Mad in the World Network: A Global Voice for Change
A Therapist Tried to Explain CBT When I Was 11 Years Old, Ineffectively
Michael Scott: The Phobic Avoidance of Attending to Real World Mental Health Outcomes
No Better Outcomes After Testing for Antidepressant Drug-Gene Interactions
Reducing Involuntary Psychiatric Admissions in Norway
Study Contradicts Diathesis-Stress Model of Psychosis
Nobody Knows What “Serious Mental Illness” Means
Neoliberal Values Connected to Increased Stigma and Suicidal Ideation
How Diagnostic Interviews Translate Situational Behavior Into Pathology
State Sponsored Biomedical Psychiatry Impedes Movements of People with Psychosocial Disabilities
Trauma Survivors Speak Out Against Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Away From Psychiatrization: Towards Socio-Ecological Wellbeing in the Community
Loss, Grief, and Betrayal: Psychiatric Survivors Reflect on the Impact of New Serotonin Study
Psychiatry, Fraud, and the Case for a Class-Action Lawsuit
Inside A Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Where I’ve Come From and Where I’m Going
Exercise Associated with 25% Lower Risk for Depression, Researchers Say
The Powerful Allure of Psychedelics in Today’s Disenchanted World
Books Under Review: Summer 2022
Psychiatry’s Failure Crisis: Are You Moderately or Radically Enlightened
Response to Criticism of Our Serotonin Paper
No Evidence Low Serotonin Causes Depression
Are People with Psychosocial Disabilities Welcomed in Public Spaces
Addressing Racism-Related Stress and Trauma in Psychotherapy
Treatment Pathways for Psychosis Vary by Race
How Does Spiritual Voice Hearing Compare to Psychosis
The Transformative Potential of Psychosis
a diagnosis + it’s damage – Schizophrenia
Laura Van Tosh: The Life of a Psychiatric Survivor Activist
Pollution’s Mental Toll: A Talk with Journalist Kristina Marusic
Psychology’s “Winning Streak” Is a Failure of Science, Not Success
Industry Sponsorship of “Cost Effectiveness Analyses” Produces Biased Results
Pharma’s “Evergreening” Patent Tactics Mean High Costs and Low Benefits for Consumers
Nothing At All: How Antidepressants Failed Me
The UK’s IAPT Service Is an Abject Failure
Less Than a Quarter of Those with Depression Respond to Treatment in Real Life
Doctors Renew Campaign Against Overdiagnosis and Overmedication
Coercive Psychiatric Practice Goes Beyond Seclusion and Restraint
Researchers: Study of Schizophrenia Held Back by “Cult-Like” Belief System
Does Humanistic Psychology Support the Capitalist Status Quo
Psychiatric Drugs Do Not Improve Disease or Reduce Mortality
Pharmaceutical Industry and FDA Use Mob Tactics to Silence Whistleblowers
Antidepressant-Induced Serotonin Syndrome a Danger for the Elderly
Social Interventions for “Serious Mental Illness” Show Promise But Face Resistance
Can Secure Attachment Reduce Death Anxiety and Obsessive Compulsions
Why Some Therapists Consistently See Better Results with LGBTQ Clients
Open Season on Mental Patients
Psychedelic Therapy Will Not Save Us
Grief, Intense Feelings, and Pathologization: Can We Conceive a Different Approach
The Answers Are in Our Weak Spots
Health Risks to Babies When Antidepressants Used During Pregnancy
Long Term Antidepressant Use Associated With Increased Morbidity and Mortality
Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model
Psychiatry’s Nightmarish 2022 & Its Hysterical Defense Against Criticism
open season on mental patients
Industry Corruption in Systematic Review for Injectable Antipsychotics
Racism, Poverty, Inequality: Social Ingredients for Psychosis, Depression & More
Psychiatry’s Medical Model: How It Traumatizes, Retraumatizes & Perverts Healing
Behaviourists Must Confront Psychiatry’s Pseudoscience
Tara Thiagarajan: Mental Well-being Better in Venezuela than in United States: Why
The Shady World of Shock Treatment
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Upcoming NICE Depression Guidelines
New Tools to Support New Moms: An Interview with Jennifer Barkin, PhD
Peer Support Research: Is It Time Yet
Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh: An Interview with Alice and Kenneth Thompson
Study Highlights Uptake of Voice Hearing Groups in Brazil
Social Media Influencers Now Marketing Drugs to Niche Audiences for Big Pharma
Conflict of Interest Policies in Europe May Hide Pharma Influence
How Concepts Like Trauma and Resilience Reinforce Neoliberalism in the Global South
Inner Fire Is the Only Place I Would Go for Emotional Distress
Thomas Insel makes a case for abolishing psychiatry
Antidepressants Do Not Improve Quality of Life
Did Psychiatry Ever Endorse the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression
Capitalism and the Biomedical Model of Mental Health
Mad by design: an ancient paradigm of psychiatric thought
Trans lifeline: naming trans-specific harm in Mental Health
Council of Europe Releases Report to Promote Voluntary Mental Health Treatment
Psychology “Incompatible with Hypothesis-Driven Theoretical Science”
Psychology: Flawed as a Science and as Evidence-Based Medicine
Patient Reports Reveal SSRI Antidepressants Often Lead to Emotional Blunting
Social Security and Asylum: How States Produce Negative Affect to Stigmatize and Deter
“From the Victorian workhouse to contemporary welfare reforms,
the provision of ‘welfare’ has long coexisted alongside policies and practices that mobilize negative affect to deter specific groups from claiming state support,
and to craft public affect (such as fear and disgust) about these target populations.”
The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health
Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
The Transformational Qualities of Hearing Voices Groups
BMJ: 20% of Health Research Is Fraudulent
Pharmaceutical companies are no longer attempting to hide their financial influence
The face of commerce is visible at every stage of the process: the biased design of the trials, the spinning of the results, and the subsequent touting of the drugs to prescribers
Antipsychotics Linked to Increased Breast Cancer Risk
Coercion and Dehumanization in Mental Healthcare
Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
Responsibility Without Blame in Therapeutic Communities: Interview with Philosopher Hanna Pickard
Reason and Madness: How Psychiatry Marginalizes Those Who Contradict Western Norms
Art, Music, Exercise, and More: What Are the Recommended Doses for Improving Mental Health
How Western Psychology Can Rip Indigenous Families Apart: An Interview with Elisa Lacerda-Vandenborn
Research Reveals Mental Health Professionals’ Participation in Rape Culture
Emotional CPR: Heart-Centered Peer Support
Inside A Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Here’s How to Survive
Lithium No Better Than Placebo for Preventing Suicide Attempts
Lithium, Antidepressants, Esketamine—All No Better Than Placebo
Qualitative Evidence Supports the Ban on Conversion Therapy in Canada
What Role can the United Nations Play in Rights-Based Global Mental Health
When It Comes to Mental Health Problems, The Disability Framework Fails
Mental Health Care Must Support Consent and Basic Human Rights
The Psychiatric Hospital Is an Institution of Social Control
When Tapering Antidepressants, is Going Slow Always the Best Strategy
Ketamine Withdrawal Has Severe Consequences
Can Anything Good Come Out of Therapy
Critical Psychology for a Better Society: An Interview with Sebastienne Grant
De-Psychiatrization and the Promise of Open Dialogue
Redefining Mental Health Care in Portugal with Open Dialogue
SSRI Antidepressants Do Not Improve Depression After a Stroke
Why We Need a Neurodiverse Philosophy of Autistic Happiness
Navigating the meaning of psychosis important for recovery
Guardianship Destroyed My Family
Fireside Project: Peer Support for Psychedelic Experiences
Understanding the Youth Mental Health Crisis: An Interview with Elia Abi-Jaoude
No Meaningful Brain Differences in Depression
New NICE Guidelines for ECT Are Dangerously Inadequate, Say 50 Patients and Professionals
Remembrances of Linda Andre, Leader in the Fight Against ECT
Brain Changes from ECT Linked to Worse Outcomes
Jim Gottstein presents a new report on improving mental health outcomes
How Socioeconomic Class Affects Therapy
Clinicians and Patients Often Disagree on Mental Health Outcomes
Psychiatry and Psychology Fail in Response to Farmer Suicides in India
Online Debates on Psychiatric Diagnosis Often Rely on Rhetoric Instead of Facts
Finding Connection During the Pandemic
Why Is Child Sexual Abuse So Common in Institutions
Why Is Psychiatry So Defensive About Criticism
Did Pharma Companies Hide Failed ADHD Drug Studies From Regulators
Study Discovers Extensive Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research
Shifting Away from ECT and Antidepressants for Depression
Put Psyche Back Into Psychiatry and Add Psychological Intimacy
The New DSM Is Coming and That Isn’t Good News
Michael Hengartner – Evidence-biased Antidepressant Prescription
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Earning the Right to Sleep on the Floor
The Medicalization of Women’s Suffering: An Interview with Dana Becker
Can the Psychodynamic Manual Move Therapy Beyond the DSM
How Providers Can Support Psychiatric Drug Discontinuation
John Read: Fear and Loathing in the ECT Debate
James Knochel: Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry
Michael Hengartner: Regulators Are Approving Drugs Without Clear Evidence That They Work
Research News: Ketamine No Better Than Placebo for Reducing Suicidal Ideation in Depression
Medicating Preschoolers for ADHD: How “Evidence-Based” Psychiatry Has Led to a Tragic End
Addressing Cultural Bias in the Treatment of Personality Disorders
The Censors Are Coming for Mental Health
MIA’s Suicide Hotline Transparency Project
Robert Spitzer on DSM-III: A Recently Recovered Interview
Official Guidelines on Antidepressant Discontinuation Fail Practitioners and Patients
Sexual Assault at Any Age is a Risk Factor for Psychosis
Dying to Stay Alive: A Ketamine Disaster
For the Love and Care of the People: An Interview with Vanessa Green on Call BlackLine Organizing
Pharmaceutical Industry Corruption Goes Beyond Conflicts of Interest
Racism Evident in Patient Health Records
A “Mass Possession” Event in Nicaragua Exposes Inadequacy of Western Mental Health Approaches
UK Finds Success with Peer Supported Open Dialogue Program
Why Do People Self-Harm, and How Can We Stop It
Antipsychotics Worsen Cognitive Functioning in First-Episode Psychosis
Parenting Changed My Perspective on “ADHD”
Nature: Brain Imaging Studies Are Most Likely False
How Evidence Based Medicine Became an Illusion
Antipsychotics Often Prescribed Without Informed Consent
Police Killings and the Pseudoscience of “Excited Delirium”
The Functions of the Mental Health System Under Capitalism
Inside a Forensic Psychiatry Unit: Calling in AIR Strikes
Mental Wellbeing Poorest in English-Speaking Countries of the World
Trusting People as Experts of Themselves: Sera Davidow on the Wildflower Peer Support Line
The impact DSM has had on us all – podcast
Human rights should be central to Global Mental Health approaches
Council of Europe Releases Report to Promote Voluntary Mental Health Treatment
Results of the Inpatient Alternative Soteria Model in Israel
Apples and Oranges in Peer Support Research
Beverley Thomson–Antidepressed: Antidepressant Harm and Dependence
Antidepressants No Better Than Placebo for About 85% of People
Marian Kornicki: #RestoreTheirRights: An Update on Guardianship Action
Researchers Find No Brain Differences in Depression
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As you may know, we're a small charity that is run by volunteers and have little funding
That means it can take some time to respond, especially at times when we get a high volume of emails
Whilst you're waiting, here's some information that you may find helpful
It includes some answers to common questions we're asked and some sources of crisis/emergency support
If you need help quickly
Unfortunately we're not in a position to offer crisis support
Understanding Voices has a good page on finding support quickly
You can access it here:
https://understandingvoices.com/living-with-voices/in-crisis/
It includes calling 999, 111 or accessing supportive helplines (e.g. samaritans).
Our page on getting support also gives information on how you can get help from your GP and your rights:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/voices-visions/getting-help-support/
If you're wanting to find out the location of a Hearing Voices Group
If you're in England, there is a list of the Hearing Voices Groups we know about here:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/hearing-voices-groups/find-a-group/
It is organised by area
We do not run the groups ourselves, so are reliant on people telling us about changes
We always suggest that people contact the facilitators before attending the group - so they can check out that it suits them and to make sure the day/time is correct
If you're from the US, we have a sister organisation called Hearing Voices Network USA
They list all of the groups in their network here:
http://www.hearingvoicesusa.org/find-a-group
You can contact them if there isn't a group in your area
They also offer online groups (that can be accessed from anywhere in the world).
If you're from another country, please see Intervoice's National Networks page
http://www.intervoiceonline.org/about-intervoice/national-networks-2
Intervoice is a charity set up to support the international Hearing Voices Movement
There are networks in many countries of the world, so it's a good place to connect with.
Useful resources:
If you, or someone you care about, is struggling to cope you may find some of the following resources useful
We will get back to you individually when we can, but until then we hope that these resources give you a starting point
If you need support to get through a crisis - please read the info on getting support (above)
You don't need to go through this alone.
For anyone
Understanding Voices: Living with Voices section:
https://understandingvoices.com/living-with-voices/
Includes coping strategy toolkit, managing difficult voices at work/study and plenty of information written by people who hear voices for people who hear voices
The rest of the site has useful information as well
Our Multimedia section - with lots of info on voice-hearing and different ways of understanding and working with voices:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/resources/films-radio/
Our free downloads section - with coping strategies etc:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/resources/free-downloads/
Rufus May’s resources (Rufus was diagnosed with schizophrenia in his youth and is now a psychologist
I really like some of his resources):
http://rufusmay.com/category/resources/
A practical guide to coping with voices:
http://www.intervoiceonline.org/support-recovery/a-practical-guide
The British Psychological Society’s ‘Understanding Psychosis’ report:
https://shop.bps.org.uk/understanding-psychosis-and-schizophrenia.html
Our Getting help and support page:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/voices-visions/getting-help-support/
Our approach to Hearing Voices:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/about-us/hvn-values/
Engaging with Voices:
https://openmindedonline.com/portfolio/engaging-with-voices-videos/
A series of videos exploring ways of engaging with voices in a more compassionate way
Living with voices: 50 stories of recovery (book)
Find a Hearing Voices Group:
http://www.hearing-voices.org/hearing-voices-groups/find-a-group/
Hearing Voices Forum (in assoc. with Intervoice)
https://www.mentalhealthforum.net/forum/forums/hearing-voices-forum.36/
Samaritans: www.samaritans.org | 08457 90 90 90 | jo@samaritans.org. A 24-hour confidential helpline that is open 365 days a year
Rethink Advice Line: 0300 5000 927: Open Monday – Friday, 10.00am – 1.00pm, offers practical advice and information
For Young People
Voice Collective:
aimed at children and young people under the age of 25, but has a great range of strategies and ideas for all
They also run a support forum for people under 25 and their supporters - see their website for more info
For those able to get to London, they support a small network of peer support groups and can offer some individual support (email, phone and in person)
The Mix: Help, I’m Hearing Voices:
Listen Up! Youth Voice Hearing Exhibition in Durham (includes podcast and artwork from young people)
https://hearingvoicesdu.org/listen-up/
Breaking the Silence: a fresh approach to hearing voices in childhood and adolescence:
Young People Hearing Voices: What you need to know and what you can do; Dr Sandra Escher and Dr. Marius Romme (book)
Parents - don’t panic if your child is Hearing Voices, it’s actually quite common:
For family and friends
An article on how to talk with someone who is hearing voices:
We hope that these resources are useful to you
With warmth,
Rai Waddingham (Chair) on behalf of the National Hearing Voices Network
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Our perspective on just about everything comes from the psychological cage we’ve been conditioned to live in.
A cage created by...
A difficult or disappointing experience
A privileged or sheltered life
Social influence
Pop-culture and mass-media stereotyping
And the list goes on.
Gradually, unbeknownst to us, our cage—our conditioning—drains our mental energy, leaving us vulnerable to bad decision making
When we were young, we saw the world through simple, hopeful eyes.
We knew what we wanted and we had no biases or concealed agendas.
We liked people who smiled.
We avoided people who frowned.
We ate when we were hungry, drank when we were thirsty, and slept when we were tired.
As we grew older our minds became gradually disillusioned by negative external influences
At some point we began to hesitate and question our instincts
Healing in Your Relationships
If you don’t allow yourself to move past what happened, what was said, what was felt, you will look at your present and future through that same dirty lens, and nothing will be able to focus your foggy judgment.
Always be kinder than necessary.
Forgive yourself for the bad decisions you made, for the times you lacked clarity, for the choices that hurt others and yourself.
Some chapters in our lives have to close without closure.
Be careful not to dehumanize people you disagree with.
Being kind to someone you dislike doesn’t mean you’re fake.
People tend to be more thoughtful and kinder when they have found a little happiness and peace of mind.
How can I respond from a place of clarity and strength, rather than continuing to react in anger and frustration to the painful experiences I've been forced to live through
Think about that question for a moment.
Read it again, and sit with it.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, pause for a few seconds, take a few deep breaths, and make space for a healthy change of state—for something new to enter...
It's time to consciously redirect your focus by taking it away from something unchangeable that drags you down, and instead zero it in on something small and actionable that moves you forward in the present moment.
4 Hard Choices that Make You Happier in the Long Run
You can choose to be present when it would be easier to pick up your phone.
You can choose to do a workout when it would be more comfortable to sit around.
You can choose to create something special when it would be quicker to consume something mediocre.
You can choose to invest in yourself when it would take less effort to procrastinate.
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Self-care is the practice of taking action to improve your health.
We can do this regularly or just from time to time, but it’s important to turn this abstract concept into a concrete goal.
I've written a blog on the ‘6 domains of self-care’, including my top tips on how to give yourself a little love.
Physical self-care
This is about taking care of our physical body and getting back to basics.
Eat regularly and in a way that nourishes your body
Exercise regularly
Boost your sleep
Psychological self-care
We all know it is important to take care of our mind.
This might include seeing mental health professionals or simply doing things to help us recharge.
Turn off phone notifications
Keep scheduled therapy appointments
Take time for reflection
Emotional self-care
This involves your relationship with yourself.
Check in with your feelings and see how you’re doing.
Keep a journal
Vent your frustrations
Engage in opportunities to create happiness
Physiotherapist – Working from home: 4 health hacks
Plump it up
Make your chair more ergonomic.
Add cushions and a foot rest to take care of your lower back.
Go for a raise
Try shaking up your desk design.
Raising your laptop will help to protect your posture.
Break it down
Take micro-breaks.
Regular movement helps prevent muscular pains.
Stretch yourself
That's it.
Stretch.
Stretching at your desk will reduce the risk of muscle strain.
3 simple techniques to help improve your breathing
Breathing control
This means just breathing easily, using the least effort.
It helps you to relax.
Place your hand on your tummy, below your ribs.
Feel your tummy rise and fall as you breathe gently through your nose.
Let go of any tension, just breathe as you need to
Deep breathing
This helps to fill the lower areas of your lungs.
Take a long, slow deep breath in.
At the end of the breath in, hold the air for 2 to 3 seconds before letting the air out gently.
Try to keep your shoulders relaxed.
Repeat for 3 or 4 deep breaths.
Huffing
This is a way of clearing mucus from your lungs.
Take a breath in and then breathe it out quickly through your mouth, as if trying to mist up a mirror.
Once any mucus has moved upwards, you should find it easier to cough it out. But there is no need to try and force up mucus.
Always finish with more relaxed breathing control (exercise 1) after the huffing exercise.
A to Zzz... our top tips for a good night's sleep
Be consistent
Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day – and avoid napping throughout the day, if possible.
Create the right environment
When it is time for sleep, make sure your bedroom is quiet, dark and cool
(The NHS recommends 18-24C for adults and 16-20C for children).
Have a change of scene
If you find yourself unable to fall asleep, get out of bed and do something relaxing elsewhere.
Try reading or drinking some non-caffeinated herbal tea, and stay off social media and news sites, which can often be anxiety-inducing.
Let Your Inner Child Out
Sometimes the grown up in you needs a break.
So, every now and then, release your inner child and enjoy some carefree fun.
See the world with childlike wonder.
Ask lots of questions.
Revisit one of your favourite childhood books or movies.
How will you let your inner child come out to play
All You Need Is Less
If you're wanting more love, more peace, more meaning, more focus, you'll probably find that all you need is, less.
Less expectations, less talk, less buying, less thinking, less stuff, less stress….
Are you ready for less
Involving Others in Decisions
How often do you involve others in the decision-making process
It makes sense to include those who are impacted by the decisions,
or those who will implement those decisions.
It increases their engagement and responsibility,
and having various perspectives can only lead to better outcomes
But involving others in decision-making takes time and resources
How do you figure out when to Involve others in the decision making, and when not to
Nourish with Happiness
Apparently, there is no nourishment like happiness
So are you nourishing yourself with happiness
Here are 3 ways to nourish yourself with happiness, everyday:
1) Feed yourself a dose of laughter (a good joke or a funny video clip)
2) Engage in one activity that makes you happy (gardening or cooking)
3) Create space to feel happy (a dose of gratitude or meditation)
Be Present to Prevent Stress
Whenever you find yourself stressing about getting things done or what’s going to happen
try this: be present
Firstly, become present to your emotions
your stress
and then, become present to what you’re doing and where you are
Be present and you may find that it helps you to feel less stressed
more relaxed
and be more effective and productive
Be more present and in the long term, you'll increase your stress resilience, and may even prevent feeling stressed.
Growing through Life
Are you just going through life or are you growing through life
If you feel like you’re just going through the routine of life, nothing probably seems exciting
Why not grow through what you go through
Grow through life, and you'll most likely find learning and excitement even in the routine
Turn On Your Inner Light
No matter how dark a moment it is
choose to bring light
Light emanates from the core of our being
So, turn on your inner light and let your light radiate through your presence
Be the light and illuminate the moment and the world
Your Financial Well-being
Why do we as a society allow people to live in poverty ? - Wendy
Can you be happy on a budget
It’s not about missing out on things and experiences, or reducing your happiness
But it is about making smarter choices and increasing your financial well-being
This week
clarify your financial goals, what you value most and what brings you the most joy
rethink your spending habits
be happier with what you have
Dreams Need Courage
No matter how much you’ve achieved or accomplished,
there’s always much more to explore
So have the courage to dream
Have the courage to define your dream clearly,
to go beyond any obstacles and reach for your dream,
even when you can't see what lies ahead
Dream and have the courage to make life an adventure worth exploring
Sound of the Waves
When you can’t seem to quiet your noisy mind, try this meditation:
Imagine yourself sitting on a beach….
Allowing the sound of the waves to wash over your noisy thoughts…
Your thoughts begin to quieten down…
Watching the calm ebb and flow of the waves, your mind is in a deep state of relaxation and calm
Walk in Someone's Shoes
You know the saying about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes before judging them
Next time someone's being difficult, leave your opinions, assumptions and emotions aside for just a couple of minutes
Then, figuratively walk in their shoes, that is, try to see things from their perspective to understand where they're coming from
Even if we walk a mile in someone’s shoes,
we still can't judge them because we can never really know the reasoning behind someone's actions or what it’s like to be that person
So, just try to understand others as much as you can
The Three Questions
When you're confused and unsure about a decision, ask yourself three questions:
Who am I?
What is important to me?
What is my purpose?
The answers that arise will most probably lead you to clarity
Point of Light
If you're feeling low in energy, low in mood, try this simple meditation:
Bring your attention up through your body to a point in the middle of the forehead,
just above and behind the eyes, behind the mind....
Begin to experience yourself as a point of concentrated energy,
a spark of light, full of radiance and positive energy....
Feeling good, feeling re-energised, you’re ready to move on to whatever's next
Peace of Mind
Peace of mind comes not from wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are
For your peace of mind, can you let go of what you want others to do or how you want them to be?
Can you accept everyone as they are?
Peace Takeaway
Sometimes it seems as if someone or something can so easily take away our peace.
But actually, no one and nothing can take away our peace because peace is our natural state of being
Next time it feels like someone or something has taken away your peace, understand that you just got pulled away from your peace
Then, pull your attention away from everything else and return back to your natural state of peace
Explore and Embrace
We often try to make impermanent things permanent
We often expect things to last forever
But no matter how tightly we hold onto things
we cannot change the fact that everything will eventually change
This week, explore and embrace the perspective of impermanence
whether it’s in your work, relationships or yourself.
Try it, and you may find that it helps you to avoid attaching happiness to things lasting forever,
appreciate things while you have them and deal with change effectively.
Impossible Possible
Anything is possible with the power of determination
Determination won’t let anything stop you
Determination will break through fear and self-doubt
And when things get rough, tough or even boring, determination will persevere and keep you going
It’s the key to success
How are you using the power of determination in your life to make the impossible possible?
The Seed of Life
We are like a tree
the seed is the essence of who we are
our life-force
and our branches represent work, family, friends, health, dreams, ambitions.....
When the seed is vibrant, our life-force pulses through each branch to every single leaf
So, extend your branches in a joyful gesture and celebrate life
And when you feel overwhelmed by it all, concentrate on the seed and you’ll revitalise everything
What Are You Focusing On?
If you’re feeling anxious, ask yourself how much you are focusing on things that are outside your control
Every time you start focusing on what’s outside your control
gently bring your focus back to what is within your control
Do this and you'll start to feel less anxiety and more peace, and increase your capacity to deal with things.
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Culture of othering found at Rochdale Boroughwide Housing
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Data reveals extent of the prepayment meter scandal
Improved protections against forced fitting of pre-payment meters
Government launches social housing rent cap consultation
Disability Hate Crime rises but only 1% see prosecutions
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Citizens Advice survey shows millions will be in energy bills debt
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The health assessments system lets down those who rely on it
MPs launch inquiry asking if working-age benefit levels in the UK are adequate to meet need
DWP admits Access to Work is overwhelmed by workload but rejects meeting
Disabled people urged to check on eligibility for social tariffs on broadband
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Disabled woman wins legal challenge against DWP over automatic benefit deductions
7 in 10 PIP appeals won on the same evidence DWP already held
DWP makes few concessions on improving engagement with Disabled people
Secret reviews into DWP deaths have more than doubled in three years
Government plans to move Disabled people from institutions don’t go far enough
Report highlights issue of negativity towards Disabled people
Disabled people make up nearly half of the most deprived working-age adults in the country
PIP delays leave Disabled people hundreds of millions of pounds out of pocket
590 suicides between 2010 and 2013 linked to welfare reform – Deaths by Welfare
9 in 10 of all reports about disability benefit fraud to the DWP hotline turn out to be false
100 people held more than 20 years in ‘institutions’
Police officer fired for taking photos of people being sectioned
Press coverage for autistic man in isolation prompts Council action
Severely ill inpatient died after DWP forced him to leave hospital to make benefit claim
Disabled woman left begging a bus driver to let her travel home safely
The Mayor's Entrepreneur competition & training
Government White Paper fails to re-build the care system
Law Commission recommends adding disability to list of hate crimes
DWP refuses to publish report that found Disabled claimants had “unmet needs”
Councils waste £253 million fighting parents at SEND tribunals since 2014
Mental health impact of leaseholder cladding scandal
All PIP claimants to be offered apply online option
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People deprived of liberty due to misapplication of Mental Health + Capacity Acts
Sickle cell patients ‘face racism in NHS’
Share your experiences of seeing or posting online content about suicide or self-harm
Ground-breaking inquiry questions ‘Whose social care is it anyway’
DWP failures mean dying people are being rejected for PIP
DWP ignoring concerns about Disabled benefit claimants’ deaths
"Sharp rise" in DWP benefit death reviews "deeply concerning"
DWP to stop ‘cold-calling’ Disabled people to make low benefit ‘offers’
Our work capability assessment factsheet
Health and Disability Green Paper – a cause for concern
New body to tackle health disparities set to launch
Lords: Government failing to implement Equality Act
I would have closed Cawston Hall – Norfolk Council care boss – Jeesal group
A fifth of housing not fit for good health – Good Home Inquiry
Elections Bill bad news for Disabled voters
Austerity cuts killed tens of thousands from 2010 onwards
Over two thirds of Universal Credit claimants currently in arrears while living costs rise
Disabled claimant died underweight, ‘unkempt and dirty’ after ESA and PIP wrongly stopped
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Excluded children put in ‘unsafe’ institutions
Disability Horizons launches new online wellbeing community
Social care plans expose rich vs poor divide in terms of home loss
DWP urged to reveal algorithm that ‘targets’ Disabled people for benefit fraud
Almost £3bn to be awarded to private sector to assess disability benefits
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DWP blocks publication of research on effectiveness of benefit sanctions
Disability strategy ruled unlawful, DWP denied permission to appeal
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DWP admits wrongly refusing PIP to record number of Disabled people
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Pushed to the Edge: Poverty, food banks and mental health
DWP failing to make reasonable adjustments for UC claimants with mental health problems
Elections Bill will make it harder for Disabled people to vote
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Report shows that smart home technology can assist independent living
People with learning disabilities in ‘mental health crisis’ – Mencap
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Disability Rights UK challenges the Bill of Rights on a parliamentary panel
Call for DWP to compensate up to 50,000 claimants unlawfully short changed on moving to UC
Benefit rates remain “close to destitution levels”, says JRF
Claimant deaths still linked to systemic flaws in benefits system, DWP document shows
Disabled energy user forced onto meter
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DWP watered down plan to prevent claimant suicides
George - DWP discrimination led claimant to suicidal thoughts
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Over 460% rise in PIP claims stopped due to failure to return review form
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1.6 million children live in mouldy and damp homes
PPM ban temporary as Ofgem prepares report on energy suppliers
DWP failings linked to death of claimant whose body lay undiscovered for years
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Report uncovers urgent changes needed in English schools
Petition around the mental health act
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Human rights
women's rights are at risk in Parliament – EMAIL MP
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The Worker Protection Bill will become law
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Stop The #AntiRefugeeBill petition
Heartbreaking deaths in the Channel: tell your MP enough is enough – EMAIL MP
What exactly is the hostile environment
Thank you for seeing the human not the label
EMAIL MP: Ukrainian refugees need all the help we can give
TELL YOUR MP: vote to lift the ban
Hostile Accommodation - our new report
Did you know the UK asylum system is run for profit?
Companies involved Clearsprings, Mears, Serco and Corporate Travel Management (CTM)
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You know the facts
People seeking asylum are banned from working, unable to support themselves and expected to live on just £5.84 a day
It's always been an absurd policy, and soon MPs will have the chance to reassert common sense and lift the ban
Polling from this week shows that an enormous 81% of members of the public surveyed agree that the ban should be lifted
Fight the anti-refugee laws: ask your MP to sign the pledge
The Rwanda plan: a punishment for asking for help
One year on: 9,000 Afghan refugees still stuck in hotels
The consequences of punishing refugees
Lift the Ban: does Jeremy Hunt want £300 million
Price rises + government hostility = asylum seeker poverty
The cost of a hostile environment
Not just “immigrants” , “low income” people too ? Costility in terms of people + money? - Wendy
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Add your name to the open letter: safety for Afghan climate activists
Windrush Heroes: Stories you need to hear
I tried this + got some answers wrong – Wendy
Do you know these refugee changemakers, tastemakers, and dream makers? Test your knowledge
The truth about the net migration numbers
Migrants Organise is taking the Home Office to Court
New Plan for Immigration is same old Hostile Environment
This Refugee Week we want to share our New Dreams
Share our message of dignity and welcome
2 minute action: The COVID inquiry must not forget migrants
What is happening with the anti-refugee Borders Bill
Dismantling the hostile environment – podcasts
Solidarity is what connects us – EMAIL MP
Patients not passports – A toddler charged £70k for life saving NHS care – ACTION
‘Inhumane’ NHS fees left more than 900 migrants without treatment
Freedom of information act used to obtain this data – Wendy
will you call on the Government to welcome climate activists as refugees
Freedom from Torture – close the barracks
Holocaust survivor confronted Suella Braverman to say: your hateful language has consequences
UK government links to torture in Xinjiang – PETITION
Urgent: Stop the UK Decriminalising Torture
New Plan for Immigration – Consultation Guidance
URGENT: Act now to protect refugees from Priti Patel's New Plan
Urgent: shocking news – EMAIL MP
write to your local newspaper against the anti refugee bill
Clause 11 of the anti-refugee bill, which would punish Ukranians and other refugees for the way that they travel to safety – was removed by the Lords
A Holocaust survivor just sent this message to Boris Johnson – on the cliffs of Dover
22nd March
MPs voted to punish refugees who make their own way to safety in the UK as part of the Nationality and Borders Bill
The bill has now entered a stage called ‘ping pong’, where it bounces back and forth between the House of Lords & the House of Commons
TELL AIRLINES: DON'T REMOVE REFUGEES TO RWANDA
Tell PM candidates: do not send refugees to Rwanda
end UK links to torture – PETITION
Safe passage – We need your help – write to a Peer today
EMAIL MP – fix our broken asylum system
Afghan families must be reunited – EMAIL MP
Inspiring interview with Joel on Channel 5 News
📺 Watch Beth break down the devastating refugee law
Make a Difference: Support Lord Dubs' Amendment Now
This is a humanitarian disaster. Close the detention camps now
we oppose unjust deportations – PETITION
urgent: no offshore detention – EMAIL MP
Survivors of Napier Barracks beat the Home Office in court
Six men who Priti Patel detained at Napier Barracks have proved in court that she violated their human rights
Stop union busting in Morocco – PETITION
Tell Denmark: Syria is not safe for refugees to return. Reverse your shameful decision
WHICH - Food prices increasing
the right to connect – EMAIL TO CEOS
Third sector + campaigning
Third Sector – Governance bulletin
Give communities more power over local assets and a £2bn support fund, report urges
Giving by the super-rich could be perpetuating social inequality, academics conclude
Charities lost almost £8.6m to fraud last year, latest figures show
Top earners at Wellcome Trust paid almost £8m each after investments boomed
Adeela Warley: In 2022 let’s make social media a place for hope, not hate
Care charity lost more than 150 staff last year because of vaccination rules
This is a charity – Wendy
Fifth former Oxfam GB staffer sanctioned after DRC sexual misconduct investigation
Why aren’t more charities supporting community building initiatives
Does the voluntary sector have a class problem
Giving pains: the cost of grant-making
National Trust hits back at 'paid-for' campaign to influence its governance
Charity investigated over ‘teacher with sword’ and ‘child eating dead rat’
Reproductive healthcare charity boss paid £229,000 annual bonus
Academies trust run by major charity breached the law, review finds
Cash-for-honours: two men questioned over allegations linked to King Charles’ charity
Are charities too ‘respectable’ to achieve change
Cash-for-honours file linked to King Charles charity passed to CPS
King Charles's charity warned over working in Bahrain
Church of England announces £100m fund after slavery links
Charity 'won't be silenced' by Israel blacklisting
Damning antisemitism report urges NUS to rethink relationship with its charity arm
Regulator looking into foundation set up by UK’s richest man
Charity bosses bugged rivals and spent money for homeless on luxury gifts
Has AI solved the poverty porn dilemma?
Report reveals three in 10 large charities have all-white boards
Charity workers could lead the way as four-day week manifesto launches
Charity vows to keep expanding after mass merger boosts income from £9.6m to £222m
Inquiry launched after housing charity’s income increased by 130,000 per cent in a year
Christian charity leader given £420,000 ‘long service award’
Charity and donor tax relief hits new high of £6bn
Is this a good thing ? Given charity bosses salaries ? - Wendy
Average CEO pay at large charities rises to £175,000, survey shows
Healthcare charity boss doubled pay package with £230,000 bonus last year
Christian charity pledges £7m in reparation payments over its past links to slavery
Charity for single parents adopts four-day week
Paul Streets: Hope and optimism in Great Yarmouth
nine out of 10 people believe that the political system needs reforming
only one in three people trust parliament to act in the best interest of people
only two in five trust British democracy
The smarter state: between the ‘magic money tree’ and the ‘reform fairy’
Public services are failing to deliver for citizens
Report – reforming public services - based on the 'three P’s': prevention - personalisation and productivity
including kindness in public services
Lots of interesting events
Creative Flow: Kingston, Art and The River to 13 April 2024
kick it – stop smoking – kingston
well-being courses at Kingston Adult Education
contact
communitylearningkae@kingston.gov.uk
for more information
Self-Compassion
household support funding drop-in sessions
contact householdsupportfund@kingston.gov.uk
Silverfit Kingston - over 45’s Fitness Sessions
contact jennifer@silverfit.org.uk
Kingston Voluntary Action (KVA)
4 in 10 children in London live in poverty
1 in 4 are living in poverty after housing costs
Source: London’s poverty profile 2021
Updated nomination link for free SIM-cards
Health and Inequalities - Bitesize Training- information sharing and learning
update including holistic health
Come Rhyme with Us - the video
Accessible Support and Mental Health Resources
Many of us may be feeling under increased financial pressure right now
The worry about money may impact sleep, concentration, productivity and our stress levels
If you are worried about money or need free, impartial advice, the Kingston Citizens Advice free toolkit is here to help
To help, watch an NHS wellbeing webinar on Managing Financial Anxiety
You can access the Worrying About Money leaflet here
Find Mental Health resources on Connected Kingston here
For advice on how to look after your mental health, visit the Mental Health Foundation here
For St John Ambulance's mental health training and resources, please click here
For Mind Mental Health Charity, visit their website here
For Samaritans, visit their website here
Their phone number is 116 123
Opening up a Kingston Town Warm Space for Community Groups
As part of our commitment to share our space, we have opened up part of the ground floor of the council office building (Guildhall 2) as a shared space from Monday - Friday, 10am to 4pm
This space will have free tea and coffee and will be offered as a general use warm space
There will be children’s toys and games available, and we are keen that our voluntary and community sector partners feel able to use this space to support residents
This space is now open
If you would like to volunteer to support this shared space one morning or afternoon a week (or more), or if your organisation would like to regularly use this shared space, please make contact with kate.leyland@kingston.gov.uk for a chat on 0771 4772559
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The Power Project: transform power, build solidarity, make change
Why a voice inside Whitehall matters for campaigners
what can art teach us about social change
Social power – 12 habits of successful change makers
100 Campaigns that Changed the World podcast
Support + more ideas
Mental illness is a lie which causes untold damage
hospital safety for diabetes patients, institutional misogyny, climate change, and more…
Whistleblowing, patient feedback, visiting restrictions + events…
Latest hub highlights: Misogyny, crosswords, Ockenden…
Mind the implementation gap, vaccination programmes, mesh removal
Patients died after catalogue of errors by Priory mental health chain
Listening to families, safety management systems
including more events for example
Huntercombe group : a mental health scandal
Systemic failures, PSIRF, surviving scrubs, and more…
including ombudsman raising concerns about human rights in Mental Health
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/human-rights-mental-health-care-crisis-b2234510.html
Bed shortages, painful hysteroscopy, revised NatSSIPs, and more…
Prescribing antidepressants for chronic pain lacks evidence, experts say
Trust must pay £200k to whistleblower it subjected to ‘campaign of harassment’
Women’s healthcare in Britain ‘worse than in China and Saudi Arabia’
Three-quarters of children detained under mental health act are girls, new report warns
Trust spent £680k in failed attempt to fight whistleblower
Eight resources on eating disorders
Mothers and babies being put at risk due to unsafe NHS maternity services
Forgotten heroes, whistleblowing, thrombosis misdiagnosis
Leading for patient safety, ADHD diagnosis, private surgery
‘Misogyny’ and ‘medical patriarchy’ widespread at major trust, reports find
The elephant in the room: Patient Safety and Integrated Care Systems
NHS trust to review all suicides since 2017
Drug firms funding UK patient groups that lobby for NHS approval of medicines
Trust given warning notice over rapid tranquillisation
World Patient Safety Day, Lucy Letby verdict, Patient Safety Partners
Inpatient mental health – a digital desert
getting people to accept restraints – seclusion – electro convulsive treatment – forced imprisonment – forced medication as human rights abuse is an uphill struggle – Wendy
including anxiety
Published guidance for Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) teams
the plan for health + care services to work with people + communities
Start engagement early
Provide clear and accessible public information
Build relationships with excluded groups
Co-produce and redesign services and tackle system priorities in partnership with people and communities
The NHS Constitution for England
Call for Welsh Government apology after failings at Ysbyty Gwynedd mental health unit
Vulnerable man Clive Treacey 'failed in life and death'
Why asylum seekers deserve better healthcare, and how we can give it to them
Maternity + neonatal services in East Kent report makes grim reading
the scandal that shook the NHS
HIV testing: Free DIY home kit offered in England
New tool to assess risks of taking sodium valproate
Listening, learning, responding to concerns
Upholding rights and equality in health and social care
Welsh Community Health Councils will be replaced with a new national body, the Citizen Voice Body, and the Welsh Government wants your views on how the new organisation should work
The aims of the new body are to:
Strengthen the citizen voice in Wales in matters related to both health and social services, ensuring that citizens have an effective mechanism for ensuring that their views are heard
Ensure that individuals are supported with advice and assistance when making a complaint in relation to their care
Use the experience of people who have used services to make improvements
Do we need a pill for every ill?
Health inequalities: Improving accountability in the NHS
Six principles of patient partnership launched
Treating patients as equals
Patients who are fully informed
Shared decision making and patient partnership
Recognising inequalities
Seeking patient input
Joining services around patients
Rich countries protecting pharma monopolies
A £2 medicine charged at over £2900…
put lives before pharma profits – PETITION
We found that 51% of beds in inpatient mental health services are provided by private companies like Priory Group, Cygnet, and Huntercombe Group who make the majority of their revenue from NHS funding
As laid out in
this important article by clinical psychologist Sanah Ahsan
our current approach to mental health care is centred on purely medical responses to "individual" conditions
But we know that issues such as poverty, debt and housing play a huge role – in fact, 73% of Just Treatment supporters who filled out our recent survey on mental health cited material conditions as a key cause of poor mental health
if you would like to share your story click
Close links between big pharma & government
Cheri + Alexey + Rodrigo + Vishal
While the NHS crumbles, big pharma is demanding billions more!
EMAIL MP to stop Big Pharma ripping off NHS
Stop big pharma’s £2.5 billion NHS grab!
Making the country work for all of us
ZERO SUICIDE ALLIANCE – FREE TRAINING
suicide awareness training for university students
ZSA and Help for Heroes launch suicide awareness training to support veterans
autistic people your views welcome
Zero Suicide Alliance - November update
Opportunity for free suicide prevention awareness sessions
contact HAdil@bwwmind.org.uk
Doctors who harm psychiatric patients – and how the system protects them
Living Wage for care workers – EMAIL MP
Make every contact count - RESOURCES
Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure
Integrated care and district councils: what underpins success?
Could a wellbeing economy approach transform the NHS?
Transformative, not tokenistic: the patient voice in integrated care systems
Beyond ‘bad admin’ exploring what great admin looks like and how it can be achieved
Understanding lived experience and intersectionality
Two-thirds of GPs refuse to register homeless patients
Life expectancy of minority ethnic learning disabled people is half that of white counterparts
Bisexual people experience worse health outcomes than other adults in England, national study finds
Building community health and care capacity: reflections from other countries
Improving integrated commissioning in health and social care
How can we move care closer to home?
Systems for Change: a whole-system approach
Not just ticking boxes: four stories illustrating the power of community-led health service design
Reducing misogyny and improving sexual safety in the ambulance service: what we know
Reducing misogyny and improving sexual safety in the ambulance service: consensus statement
Reducing misogyny and improving sexual safety in the ambulance service: next steps
Making patient experience a priority
Improving care for people with learning disabilities and autism
Back to basics – understanding lived experience and intersectionality in health and care
Kevin Fenton: “Racism is a major public health challenge”
The hidden problems behind delayed discharges and their costs
The preventative state: rebuilding our local, social and civic foundations
Tackling obesity: improving policy making on food and health
Struggling to be heard: understanding the experience of disabled people in England
Not a ‘nice to have’ – the importance of working with people and communities
Acute inpatient mental health care for adults and older adults
Celebrate 75 years of the NHS with our new online course
Delivering meaningful patient involvement: the MTG's guide for integrated care systems
Better housing for better health
Three surprising trends in adult social care
The radical reform that's been staring the NHS in the face
How does the NHS compare to international health systems?
Working with the VCSE as system partners – from warm words to actions
Gen Z mental health: The impact of tech and social media
A natural health service: improving lives and saving money
How can we reduce health inequalities for people living with sickle cell disorder?
Supporting digital inclusion in health care
New podcast: health inequalities and climate change
Has the Women’s Health Strategy listened to what women really need
Odds stacked against it: how social care struggles to compete with supermarkets on pay
New horizons: what can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries
poverty and the health and care system
There’s no such thing as a new public policy idea, just a new name
What does it take to ensure partnerships succeed
Poverty, poor-quality housing and health inequalities
The Health and Care Act 2022 – what does it mean for trusts and foundation trusts
A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality
Working in partnership with people + communities: statutory guidance
What should partnering with disabled people look like
Women in prison + mental health + poverty + strokes +
What is a population health approach
How should the health and care system act on poverty
NHS wants to stop ‘reinventing the wheel’ and involve public in digitisation
New podcast: Supporting refugee and migrant health care in England
Health Management and Policy Alert: 26 July 2022
including human rights concerns regarding people in care
Putting patients first: championing good practice in combatting digital health inequalities
The Health and Care Act 2022: the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead
What can be done to tackle LGBTQ+ health inequalities
Acting on the evidence: ensuring the NHS meets the needs of trans people
The cost of poor housing by tenure in England
Health Management and Policy Alert: 20 July 2021
Including reforming the MHA: government response to consultation
Not listening to us – Wendy
Understanding integration: how to listen to and learn from people and communities
Including poor health + housing + obesity + bad roads
Health Management and Policy Alert: 10 September 2021
Including Home for all
What is needed to reduce ethnic minority health inequalities
How much longer and further are health inequalities set to rise
How will integrated care systems work under the Health and Care Bill
Including details of a free course “an introduction to leading with kindness and compassion in health + social care
The power of those small acts of kindness
The WHO Prison Health Framework: a framework for assessment of prison health system performance
How does the UK's health care performance compare internationally
The cost of poor housing in England
Left behind: a decade of intergenerational unfairness
Invisible women: understanding women’s experiences of long-term imprisonment
Listen: Tackling health inequalities head on through integrated care
Your health and care explained update
New podcast: What is the Health and Care Bill and why does it matter
Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report
From harm to hope: a 10-year drugs plan to cut crime and save lives
Integrated care systems and social care: the opportunities and challenges
If integrated care cannot tackle inclusion health, we should all be worried
New explainer: How does the system hear from communities
Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help
Local government public health funding: putting the jigsaw together without the picture on the box
What could provider collaboratives look like
Not really outcome-based commissioning? Certainly not people commissioning? – Wendy
Local health systems: relationships not structures
How does the NHS in England work and how is it changing
Mental Health Act reform: race and ethnic inequalities
ADPH highlights link between gambling and suicide
Nature-based physical activity as an early intervention for teenagers
Introducing integrated care systems: joining up local services to improve health outcomes
Interoperability is more than technology
New podcast: Stafford Scott on community activism
Poverty and the health and care system: The role of data and partnership in bringing change
Global report on health equity for persons with disabilities
What can data tell us about the health of the nation?
Making retirement living affordable: the role of shared ownership housing for older people
Home is at the heart of inclusion health – here's why
LGBTQ+ staff and patients deserve better from the NHS
Tech transformation disrupts leadership styles
Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill +
This report states the reform process needs to continue beyond the draft Bill in the direction of more rights-led legislation that respects patient choice
Standing back from The Hewitt Review: six key take-aways
suggesting more power to the people ? - Wendy
Ask for a free place ? - our voices matter – Wendy
From listening to action: putting the voices of people and communities at the heart of health and care – 21 – 22 November
How can embracing positive disruption impact the changing nature of the workforce? - 19 March 2024
UCL Institute of Health Equity
Health inequalities: Improving accountability in the NHS, August 2023
Westminster Health Forum - WHF -policy conference – PROVIDE FREE SPACES – JUST APPLY
A relaxation technique to help you
People’s theatre
£6 Mondays are back
Justice
Haldane society of socialist lawyers
Video of launch for treating causes not symptoms: basic income as a public health measure
UBI gives people the chance to make their own choices, to make decisions for themselves, their communities, their households, their lives and their futures
UBI does everything from sharing out problems, to delivering a feminist vision to tackling the climate emergency, to stopping benefit traps
It does all those things, but ultimately UBI is democracy
Baroness Natalie Bennett
Every step we take towards a Basic Income will liberate power in the hands of the citizen
Paddy Ashdown
Andy Burnham joins call for basic income trial
Report from Manchester University
How universal basic income can tackle anxiety + depression
Extending Welsh Universal basic income pilot to heavy industrial workers
VOTE FOR THIS EVEN IF NOT IN WALES
Welsh basic income pilot have been published
In a statement from Jane Hutt, Minister for Social Justice
The pilot will be targeted at care leavers
All young people leaving care that turn 18 over a 12 month period starting this summer will be invited to participate
That is expected to be about 500 people
Participants will receive the payments for 24 months starting from the month after their 18th birthday
A £1,600 a month basic income will be paid each month
Universal basic income motion passed by Richmond Council
69% of people in Wales support basic income pilots
Stockton, California who released incredible results from the experiment there
Start your own Basic Income Conversation today – TOOLKIT
We've urged ministers to back basic income for mental health – Peace of mind project
Let's make Basic Income a reality – PETITION
The Basic Income Conversation is growing... here's how
Universal Credit cut: now is the time for basic income
Last week the £20 Universal Credit uplift was cut.
5.8 million people claim Universal Credit in England, Scotland and Wales. Overnight, their incomes fell by £1,000 a year.
If they’d had a basic income, they wouldn’t have been plunged into precarity.
Now is the time for a basic income.
There are thousands of people across the UK working to make that clear.
How do we pay for a basic income
Email mp asking them to join CPPLG
NEW REPORT: Results of our Basic Income Month
Understanding the impacts of a basic income
Can you help get candidates across the UK to support UBI trials
Tackling Poverty: The power of a universal basic income
Record low poverty at no net cost
The most common question that we get asked in the Basic Income Conversation is “How would we pay for this”
As of today we can say, “You don’t. It doesn’t have to cost the public purse anything.”
Our new paper lays out a fiscally neutral scheme that involves no additional calls on the public finances and no net increase in taxation: the cost of the extra payments would be exactly offset by the extra revenue from internal changes in tax rates and National Insurance Contributions
The gains of this modest scheme are concentrated among the poorest income groups, and the gains are incredible:
Child poverty falls by more than a half taking
it to below the historic level achieved in 1977
Working-age poverty falls by just over a quarter
Pensioner poverty falls by 54%
This takes the level of pensioner poverty to well below the lowest post-1961 rate of 14% in the early 1980s.
The Gini coefficient – a measure of inequality – falls by 12.5%, taking it back towards the peak equality achieved in the 1970s.
Despite the scale of the current crises, we keep being told that our problems are too big, too complex, there are too many obstacles, and it’s just too expensive to take care of people
The human cost of our problems is unfathomably and heartbreakingly big.
The cost of transforming people’s lives is not.
Thanks to this paper, we’re laying out exactly why and how implementing a basic income is eminently doable.
How can a modest basic income cut poverty by half
Is basic income a vote winner
Listen Now: A Basic Income Special
Winning the vote with a universal basic income: Evidence from the 'red wall
ask for universal basic income with Sadiq Khan + Andy Burnham +
“Back to work” budget – March 2023
does not describe conditions to help people live fruitful, productive, and dignified lives
It describes expanding and strengthening punitive work search requirements and sanctions
This budget chooses to double down on sanctions despite the vast majority of evidence showing they do not help people find work and instead damages our health
Indeed we expect the DWP's own research shows this to be true
but ministers have blocked the release of this "sensitive" information
We know our social security system is leading people to early graves with over 300,000 excess deaths from 2012-19
largely attributable to UK Government austerity measures
Despite that harrowing truth
this government is making people more vulnerable when claiming benefits, not less
We don’t need tinkering around the edges, we need a new economic settlement
One that guarantees financial stability to all of our citizens
One that treats us fairly
One that uses evidence to build a system that makes the people that use it more secure, happier and healthier
An unconditional basic income would reverse the brutal culture of sanctions that has gripped our social security system for too long
How do we get there?
We explore the alternatives and make sure we are heard
We bring people together, convene and converse, on how different things can be
We are the experts on what our communities need and should be a key part of the decision making process about policies designed to support us
We published a report with Deputy Leader of the Green Party and London Assembly Member, Zack Polanski
This report outlines how communities can build their own basic income pilots, together
How they can design projects to produce evidence on basic income that can be used to build a social security system that's the best it can be
Involving Londoners in a basic income pilot
Our proposal for a community led basic income pilot in Jarrow and Grange, East Finchley
universal basic income discussion
Basic income + our mental health
Newsletter of the European Network for the Fair Sharing of Working Time
Invite your MP to the #FlexforAll briefing
Parents against child exploitation
Watch our new film about spotting the signs of child exploitation
Safeguarding training – perhaps ask for a free space
Believe in yourself and your children: one parents story
Read a mother shares her story, "PS I Love You"
Child Exploitation Awareness Day 2023
Prosecuting mental health – accountability or criminalisation
A different understanding How the CJS discriminates against those with autism
When should a family dispute end up in court
Barely legal - The experience of remote tribunal hearings
The forgotten people - Prisoners on remand in the pandemic
Does L&D stop the revolving door of police custody
Does diversion from court have an image problem
Computer says yes – you will pay a fine and get a criminal record
Children imprisoned on remand – the stark reality of racial bias
Only by radically shrinking the magistrates’ court can the Crown Court backlog be reduced
Is justice for victims always criminal justice
Does the defendant in the magistrates’ court get a fair hearing
Making child remand a last resort
Do people who get in trouble with the law deserve double punishment
Independent domestic violence advocates in specialist courts – a backfire effect
Is imprisonment before trial the result of poor risk assessment
Keeping the wheels of justice turning – magistrates’ views on justice in the pandemic
This single justice procedure affects women more than men
Will harsher sanctions reduce assaults on police and NHS workers
out of sight, out of mind – defendant’s experience of video court hearings
Can assaults on police and NHS workers be avoided in the first place
A recipe for confused policing New drug strategy laced with problems
The Transform Justice Podcast – Episode Recap
Should lawyers pay more attention to client feedback
The myth that tough sanctions deter crime – revealed by the Sentencing Council
Judicial bias – opening pandora’s box
“Tis but a scratch” – bravado, policing and assaults
False imprisonment: do we over-use police custody
Should school non-attendance be treated as a crime
Should victims prosecute crimes against them?
Should we imprison people for being a pain in the neck?
HMCTS was forewarned about the risk of digital courts
Behind close doors – is justice ‘seen to be done’?
Close to home: the case for localising criminal justice
Sign the petition and tell President Biden to fulfill his promise to clear the federal death row.
How This Minneapolis Man Is Healing Collective Trauma Through Creative Counseling and Mentoring
Trauma informed training attempts to bridge gap between Newark residents + cops
A model for police + community relations
An up-close portrait of the people doing violence intervention work
New nonprofit uses yoga to address Black men’s mental health
Community-based violence prevention works, but it needs sustained support
The Future of Public Safety is Now
Alternatives to Police and Prisons: Activists Share How to Better Address Violence
NO Executions in Kentucky – ACTION
Truth, justice + accountability
Progress on the legal aid for inquests campaign
Leon – Nadia – Sam – Matthew -Zoe – Marshall – Jane – Sammy – Coco – Trevor – Shane – Abdul – Lamont – Andrew – Steven – Gavin – Jason – Micheal – Jack – Alex
including connection cafes
Deaths of racialised people in prison 2015 – 2022: Challenging racism and discrimination
Black men seven times more likely to die following police restraint but racism not being addressed
INQUEST News ⚖️ on challenging state violence & justice campaigns
INQUEST News ⚖️ on challenging state violence & justice campaigns
including petition
Less crime, safer communities, fewer people in prison
Stop building women's prisons – EMAIL MP
focussed on reducing the unnecessary arrests of women reducing child arrests and ending the criminalisation of children in care
Changing outcomes for Black people in the criminal justice system
"Nobody really cares about prisons"
Arrests of children have been reduced by 74% over the last decade, in another major step forward for our successful campaign.
Since 2010, the Howard League for Penal Reform has been working with police forces across England and Wales to reduce child arrests, helping to ensure that hundreds of thousands of boys and girls do not have their lives blighted by a criminal record.
We campaign on a wide range of issues including children in the criminal justice system, change inside prisons, community sentencing + policing
We have an in-house expert legal team who represent children in custody.
We strive to minimise the human suffering and social harms that are both causes of crime and consequences of punishment.
We stand for constructive forms of justice that contribute to building a safer, fairer society.
We stand against abuse and mistreatment and all forms of discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Prisons create conflict, put a strain on the police and hospitals and thwart human potential – they simply do not work.
Sadly, the government are planning on expanding our already over-crowded prison population.
The recently published Prisons strategy white paper has dedicated £4 billion to new prions places, with the Ministry of Justice’s own projections predicting the population to reach almost 99,000 over the next five years.
International Women’s Day
A day in the community where we celebrate and empower women.
Unfortunately, for women in prison, today won’t be a day for celebrations.
There were almost 5,000 receptions of women into prison last year, and more than half of them were for women on remand.
Too many women are being swept up into the justice system when it is not necessary or appropriate.
Most women in prison have a history of childhood abuse or trauma, they need a safe space and support.
Prison life during the pandemic
International Women's Day and other news
Commission on Crime and Gambling Related Harms
Criminal justice lessons from across the globe
In the last year, prisoners self-harmed at a rate of once every 10 minutes
17 August 2022
report on young people's well-being in prison
“Being creative has helped me survive my prison sentence”
Announcing our UK Exhibition Dates 🎨
3 November – 17 December
2023 Koestler Awards Results Announced 💫
An Exciting Autumn Ahead at Koestler Arts🎨
Businesses back criminal records reform
Abdullah al-Derazi and Youssef al-Manasif - PETITION
Abuses against children in UK-funded prisons – PETITION
women’s football v men’s football
Mohammed bin Salman in London – PETITION
“Staff were hostile towards gay people”
Stop the attack on trans rights – EMAIL MP
ban conversion therapy – EMAIL MP
stand up for the equality act – EMAIL MP
Flag anti-LGBTQ+ hate incidents with Zoteria!
Send a postcard to Rishi Sunak
My queer brothers and sisters need your help – PETITION
ban conversion therapy in India – PETITION
ban conversion therapy Bangladesh - PETITION
Take this simple step to fight FIFA's hypocrisy – PETITION
Tunisia: Trans woman Maya arrested – PETITION
SIGN NOW: Call for the recognition of same-sex partnerships and marriage equality in Poland!
Sign now for same-sex partnerships in Ukraine
Gay Chechen refugee in danger – PETITION
Sign to ban "conversion therapy" in Sri Lanka
Petition: Indonesia needs your voice to ban “conversion therapies”
Tell Polish officials to stop attacking LGBT+ children
Emergency: Help Russian trans community seek asylum – PETITION
Stop Netanyahu’s anti lgbtq+ legislation – PETITION
how well do you know your rights - FREE BOOKLET
why the ECHR matters – video + campaign
Demand real alternatives to policing – ACTION
speak up for human rights – PETITION
protest rights at risk – again – PETITION
The Asylum Seeker Memorial Project
New protest laws - what you need to know
You do not have to donate when signing a petition – petitions are free to sign
Email MP to protect our rights
URGENT PETITION: save the Human Rights Act
tell the government to stop the attacks on our democratic rights
In many respects the Government’s plans laid out in the Queen’s Speech are even worse than anticipated
They include:
A so-called ‘Bill of Rights’
which would scrap the Human Rights Act and remove obligations on public bodies like local councils and government departments to treat people fairly
A Public Order Bill
which would force through the anti-protest measures that our mass public resistance defeated just a few months ago, such as criminalising ‘lock-on’ protests
A National Security Bill
handing state security services even more power and potentially threatening the work of journalists who uncover dark truths
Even after it suffered stinging defeats in the last Parliament, the Government is returning to force through unwanted and unpopular policies
"Disturbing" misconduct by immigration custody staff revealed
this is not who we are – PETITION
Breaking international law five times – PETITION
Tell the Prime Minister - not in our name
The Met's eye-watering legal bill
Our Human Rights Information Line
Secret facial recognition tech revealed
What's behind the Channel disaster?
Fighting NHS Charging – What can you do now
Why is PayPal trying to silence activists
Secret units SPYING on your speech
🎥 Whistleblower: 'army spied on UK citizens'
The police are after our biometric data again
Documenting the rise of facial recognition in the UK
Edward +Annie + David + Jeffrey + Thomas
🎥 Inside the post-Snowden legal challenges
The HIDDEN costs of a digital pound – EMAIL MP
Stop the Met Police using facial recognition surveillance - PETITION
Minister meddled in facial recognition probe
NETPOL – the network for police monitoring
Black Lives Matter protest – VIDEO
new report condemns "revenge policing" and calls for scrapping new police powers
defending civil liberties
Spycops in CND: Request for information
They want to silence criticism
Boris Johnson misled Parliament
They want to block public interest
This is not the Britain we should be
REVEALED: The names of those who referred Covid testing firms into the “VIP” lane
5 billion pounds tax payers money ? - Wendy
Other information sources
‘We need urgent action on Black mental health’
Mozilla – internet health 2022 – reclaiming power over AI
the tech we won’t build – podcast
including weaponisation of social media + GOOGLE involvement with military
when an algorithm is your boss – podcast
gig economy – if you are a minute late with a delivery you are banned from working for 2 days with some deliver apps
alternatives
using
for workers collectives
The truth is out there – podcast
about misinformation industry – which affects elections + dark social media
Does This Button Work? Investigating YouTube's ineffective user controls
Is Instagram fueling eating disorders in teenagers
Does TikTok harm your mental health
Are Facebook groups encouraging people to take part in offline violence
The answer is… we don’t know for sure. And that’s a serious problem
Brave, independent researchers and whistleblowers are trying to study the impact and harms of social media companies on society - but they face constant threats and roadblocks
especially from the companies whose products they are trying to scrutinize
We know because Mozilla works with many of these journalists and academics to expose companies like YouTube, Twitter and TikTok
Delete Delete Can your boss read your Dms
The worst mental health apps for privacy
Discrimination lurks throughout our digital world
TRUTH Challenges, Changes Algorithmic Bias Against Black Women
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
TikTok is misleading us – PETITION
Ask Microsoft if they're using our personal data to train its AI – PETITION
Smart meters do allow energy companies to cut you off remotely
Our democratic process is vulnerable—help strengthen and protect it
Rachel Reeves house building claims don’t ‘stack up’
What has India’s Adani Group now been accused of?
Sanders and McDonnell on community wealth
Land banks and community land trusts
Community wealth building as health building
Scotland’s guide to community wealth building
wealth supremacy – how extractive economy + the biased rules of capitalism drive today’s crises
How to assemble a Citizens' Assembly: a guide!
Barack Obama Discusses Citizens’ Assemblies
A Blueprint for the EU Citizens' Assembly 🇪🇺
🪜 Big questions, detailed answers: Our definitive How-To Guide to Citizens' Assemblies is here
🇮🇪 How Ireland transformed democracy
Community wealth building comes to Scotland
How to Make a Democracy Economy
South Korea explores community wealth building
How NY can enter ‘a new era of public power’
‘A global beacon’ for community wealth
North Ayrshire Council in Scotland
Technology
Innovation is not designed to create happiness
It's designed a lot of the time to facilitate one's needs and desires, to stimulate desire and all of those kinds of things
It's certainly about doing all of that, but it's not about making the world better for people
And it's not about improving their lives in any way
It's about trying to actually create a world in which more profit is to be had
Military
The one sector of government that doesn’t experience austerity is the military budget
To what degree is competition between states somehow rather related, tightly related, to the competition between capitalists
Ask Prof Wolff: Is Nordic Socialism a Progressive Step
How Capitalism Shapes our Food
Ask Prof Wolff: Taxing Billionaires
Wolff Responds: Capitalism's False Defenses
All Things Co-op: Cuba's New Cooperative Legislation
Global Capitalism: The Problems with China's Economy
we learn about the psychology of control and domination
understand our personal connections to capitalism’s structure
All Things Co-op: Lessons from Venezuela’s Social Economy
Ask Prof Wolff: From Capitalism to Co-op
All Things Co-op: Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Economic Update: Unaffordable Housing
The popular movement for peace needs to be rekindled
All Things Co-op: There Is An Alternative To Capitalism
Global Capitalism: The Socialism That Focuses Too Much on Government
Ask Prof Wolff: Capitalism Doesn’t Care About You
Coping with (and Resisting) Capitalism
The Whiteness of Wealth: podcast with Prof Dorothy Brown
Podcast: The capture of Malta and the fight for justice
"You need to be very strong
To do the job that she did you really have to be your own person
You couldn’t be the kind of person who worries what people might think of you, and you really have to say, no, I’m not going to adapt, I’m not going to fall into that mould
I’m going to break it and keep breaking.”
Paul Caruana Galizia
Pandora Papers shows transparency failure is an accountability failure
Jersey’s Pandora’s Boxes: The Tax Justice Network podcast
The Swiss banking clean-up is a mirage
10 measures to expose sanctioned Russian oligarchs’ hidden assets
Podcast: Financial Secrecy Index 2022
Will you have to pay inheritance tax?
Tax Justice Network letter to King Charles III
Tax the mega rich now – PETITION
“Consensus” emerges at UN ahead of historic vote on tax – but major countries notably silent
Our tax system is broken – EMAIL MP
Support President Biden’s proposal to stop global tax dodging – PETITION
Pandora Papers shows transparency failure is an accountability failure
Where are the billions in missing tax?
What are oil companies doing with their huge profits?
In a world struggling with a cost of living crisis
recent research by
has shed light on a shocking reality
In 2021 and 2022 the world's 722 largest companies reaped windfall profits totalling a staggering $1 trillion annually
It couldn't be clearer that tackling the cost of living crisis requires a bold approach
This has to include higher taxes on both companies and the wealthy
The cost of living crisis affects ordinary individuals and families who struggle to make ends meet
as prices soar for essential goods and services
while wages struggle to keep pace
Meanwhile, wealthy corporations have seen their profits skyrocket during these challenging times
This discrepancy highlights the urgent need for systemic change
12 July 2023
Eating disorder patients restrained by security guards
Cummings’ misogynistic slur about top civil servant in text to PM
Women disproportionately affected by soaring Mental Health Act detentions
NHS failures contributed to death of trans activist Sophie Williams, coroner finds
The far right tried to profit off my story, says Telford sex ring survivor
Woman alleging police sexual abuse says inquiry is ‘lip service’
Cambodian women left holding bill for UK fashion’s cancelled orders
US surveillance firm’s charm offensive to UK councils and police forces
Exclusive: Cops share dozens of photos of dead bodies and crime scenes
information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy
Forget GDP growth, it’s sustainable wellbeing we need to aim for
Who is Elly Schlein, the first woman and LGBTIQ+ leader of Italy’s left?
Hungary’s latest target: Trans people
LGBTIQ people face life in prison under Uganda’s new bill
What links Israel and white Christianity? The myth of innocence
Calls for US anti-rights groups to face action over Uganda anti-gay law
Americans are rejecting religion as the Christian right becomes more extreme
Deliveroo’s gig economy event at Labour conference featured no riders
Starmer has taken more freebies than all Labour leaders since 1997 combined
Rough sleepers have tents destroyed by enforcement officers in London
information obtained using Freedom of Information act – Wendy
Afghan refugees fear homelessness as landlords ‘refuse to rent’ to them
9 ways the NHS could be improved for trans people
Whenever capitalism gets into crisis, it's women's bodies on the line
Chilean anti-abortion groups fight to keep donors secret
Indigenous women lead battle for land rights in Argentina
‘It left a scar on me’: Locked up in the UK’s women-only immigration centre
‘Facebook’s contractor forced me to work alongside my rapist’
How the UK government is undermining the Freedom of Information Act
90% of Met officers disciplined for racism still work for force
Met Police officers kept jobs after sending racist and sexist messages
Revealed: Police began monitoring ‘social justice’ activity after BLM protests
Racism in UK maternal care: ‘Why aren’t we being listened to’
Revealed: Taxpayers fork out £8m to subsidise Lords’ food and drink
The post-Roe v Wade crisis can only end if Democrats restore our rights
The US Christian Right groups actively involved in voter suppression
Revealed: Landlords’ lobbying ahead of Sunak U-turn on green homes
Revealed: UK private tenants hit by record annual rent hikes
Landlords urged to ‘take advantage’ of soaring rents in ‘grotesque’ email
Private renters will face ‘winter of hardship’ after autumn statement
Eight landlord MPs spoke during debate on renters’ rights
Revealed: Housing associations urged ministers to let them increase rents
Landlords of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants secretly lobbied the government to let them charge more rent – while paying their executives nearly £300,000 a year each
‘Banning no-fault evictions won’t stop landlords making us homeless’
Opaque think tanks, landlords and the arms industry dominate Tory conference
Renters aren't all ‘weed-smoking bad people in gangs’, says Tory housing minister
‘No-fault’ evictions ban delayed indefinitely after landlord lobbying
Delay in ‘no fault’ evictions ban leaves 48,000 households facing homelessness
‘Destitution’ warning as DWP rejects calls to pause benefit deductions
Religious liberty’ is being weaponised by the American Right
Even police doubted my arrest was legal, claims anti-royal protester
Britain treats republicanism as a bit of a joke. Time to take it seriously
Suella Braverman accused of trying to ‘derail’ Chris Kaba murder case
Record number of Universal Credit claimants relying on hardship payments
The anti-women agenda of the woman set to be the next Italian prime minister
Spy tech firm won £27m government deal after introduction from ex-MI6 boss
I posed as a private jet customer ✈💰
Tories have taken £291,000 in gifts from airports as Sunak eyes runway U-turn
How the UK’s arms trade funnels public cash into private pockets
1 in 4 nurses pinched from poorer countries
if we had universal basic income + community land trusts + – perhaps we could look after our loved ones ourselves ? Prevention ? - Wendy
Revealed: Nearly 200 ex-police work at ‘independent’ police watchdog
New name for scandal-hit anti-abortion charity?
Neoliberalism can’t solve the climate crisis. We need activism
Why Russia's nuclear energy company Rosatom has avoided sanctions
Government’s own research contradicts Sunak’s 20mph speed limit claim
Cancel culture? Trans-inclusive writers say they face abuse and censorship
Farmers' union successfully lobbied against food waste transparency
Government has ‘no plans’ to stop arms sales to Israel despite civilian deaths
Facebook whistleblowers in the UK
Hey, YouTube – leave our kids alone
A lot more to do on government algorithms
Support Facebook content moderators in calling for fair treatment
Taking on the tech giants: the lawyer fighting the power of algorithmic systems
Join us – tell Sadiq Khan to take action against Uber
Matt Hancock: Drop your plan to put NHS patients' health data into one massive database - PETITION
fresh evidence: disappearing messages and "government by WhatsApp"
"this algorithm decides who eats and who goes hungry"
Government by WhatsApp – email your MP
Facebook on notice of legal action – SIGN LETTER
They exploit Facebook moderators and call it “ethical”. Help us stop them
facebook is violating Kenya’s hate prevention guideline – PETITION
no palantir in our NHS – PETITION
Palantir’s latest NHS data move – EMAIL MP
Facebook fanning the flames of war – PETITION
Email your MP – ask them to demand answers about the failed NHS Palantir pilot projects
What you need to know about Palantir, the US firm in line for a £480m NHS deal
Freedom of assembly
Campaign for freedom of information
ICO should end its near invisibility on FOI
Call for tougher FOI enforcement and other news
ICO action against government departments for FOI delays
Social housing and Freedom of Information
FOI challenges on national security, social housing and the environment
send a postcard of support to Jimmy Lai
Graham Smith of Republic is to sue the Met Police
Questioning of journalist at UK airport highlights increasing overreach of border forces
In bad faith - How religion is being weaponised by the right
Article 19 – defending freedom of expression + information
PROTECT: Help us build a free, open, inclusive Kenya
The right to abortion: A year on from Roe v. Wade
Standing in Solidarity: Supporting Journalists Under Threat in Turkey
advocacy for freedom of expression and protection of journalists at the UN
‘What we want for the internet cannot be accomplished with the state of concentration we currently have…
Because concentration creates bottlenecks of power.'
Agustina Del Campo, free speech expert
'Anger is not sufficient to maintain motivation over time;
you also need to have hope,
and to believe that you can make a difference.'
Kathryn Sikkink, author and human rights academic
‘It is beyond outrageous that the authorities plan to deprive millions of girls and women of access to schools and universities and the right to education in a bid to subdue their spirit of resistance and freedom-seeking.’
Saloua Ghazouani, ARTICLE 19’s Director for Middle East and North Africa
Iran's Tech-Powered 'Hijab and Chastity Bill'
The Global Expression Report 2023 is out now
Empowering Women Journalists: Equally Safe
How can we tackle disinformation? Global efforts are on the rise
Agenda 2030: How informed voice ensures we leave no one behind
an important step for the right to know
the Internet We Want empowering all people
End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
Protecting the Right to Protest
Younger people
How to keep children safe online
mental health – SUPPORT INFORMATION
Together we're helping children to report abuse
email the new Minister in charge
support for Care leavers – update
It's Care Day! What young people want YOU to #KnowAboutCare
Young people risk missing out on right to vote ⚠📮
Launching a new Inquiry with MPs on #APPGCare
Louise's #GoneTooFar story on Channel 4 News 📺
"So far, so little" - our response to Government
A Life More Wild – Dr Alex George & Brook House Woods
Society needs to change. Have your say on how
Supporting your child with anxiety
Tips for coping with peer pressure
Toxic masculinity and mental health
tips on the start of your eating disorder recovery journey
Rediscovering your identity in eating disorder recovery
Tips for coping in these anxious times
Read our tips and advice for supporting a friend
building positive mental health – including worksheets
culturally-informed guides with young people
support if you are experiencing Islamophobia
What to do if you’re experiencing eating problems
A guide to eating problems for parents/carers
How to support a friend with an eating disorder
How to have a conversation with young people about mental health
Five tips for looking after yourself during family arguments
How I'm learning to cope with travel anxiety
Fighting for the right to learn 🎓
From Afghan girls, to you: “our story is full of hope”
My body - my sanctuary - how body shaming affects girls beyond self-esteem
From Guyana to Indonesia, Assembly is the place for girls' voices 📢
When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful 🌟
Girls like me are taking action – EMAIL MP
Girls forced to marry – PETITION
The Stranger Series with Coram’s Young Citizens
End violence against women + girls
Do you want to unlock your potential
We see you; we hear you and we care about you – SUPPORT LINES INFORMATION
Ask your MP to do more to prevent online hate speech
New report reveals one size fits no one
Including peer researchers
How we’re working towards a more equal world of work
🤯Shocking stats revealed: know your rights
Paid unfairly? Know your rights ❗
Maternal Mental Health Alliance
10 November 2022 – Report - Key perinatal mental health findings
40% of deaths within the year after pregnancy were from mental health-related causes
Suicide remains the leading cause of direct maternal death in the first postnatal year
Suicide during pregnancy or up to six weeks after is increasing:
In 2020, women were three times more likely to die by suicide during this period compared to 2017-19
Very few women who died by suicide in 2020 had formal mental health diagnoses, but significant numbers had a history of trauma
Maternal mental health briefing for integrated care systems
We want all integrated care boards and partnerships to work collectively across the NHS, local government, other public services, and voluntary sector organisations to provide services that support maternal mental health, reduce health inequalities and use public money wisely so that all women and their families can access the care they need
A step in the right direction for pregnant women's safety at work - EMAIL MP
Are you on maternity leave Take our survey
We're calling for maternity pay to be increased – will you help us
Baby Loss
0192 420 0799
0207 733 2653
0800 014 7800
0808 164 3332
support@birthtraumaassociation.org.uk
020 7713 7486
British Pregnancy Advisory Service
03457 30 40 30
Twins Trust Bereavement Service
bereavementsupport@twinstrust.org
0808 802 6868
If you are in crisis and need immediate support, you can access help from these organisations:
available 24/7 for listening support on 116 123.
text ‘SHOUT’ to 85258 to speak to a crisis counsellor
open 9am-midnight, call 0800 068 41 41 for support around suicidal thoughts and feelings.
CAMHS Crisis Line
a free confidential NHS helpline offering support for young people aged 17 and under in crisis on 0300 303 1320
a free confidential NHS helpline offering support for adults aged 18+ on 0800 012 6549
real-time, online support
0800 1111. 7:30am – 3.30am
0800 58 58 58
0808 808 4994 3pm – 12am everyday
Creative Activites for your family... 🎷🪩📔🌄🐔
Ask pornography sites and the government to protect children more
Government bodies
mental health act statistics – annual figures 2021 - 22
Still, we suffer – Wendy
draft mental health bill – EASY READ
Mental Health Strategy Delivery Plan for 2022/23
Rapid review into data on mental health inpatient settings: final report and recommendations
Proposed NHS mental health access standards for patients
Energy Bills Support Scheme explainer
Health research authority (HRA)
Health quality improvement partnership (HQIP)
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health: Annual report
Our equality objectives 2021-2025
Now available: State of Care – CQC's annual assessment of health care and social care in England
From Paternalism to human rights
Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: progress report
Monitoring the Mental Health Act
Putting people at the centre of system regulation: learning to lead in changing times
our new single assessment framework
Our revised plan and approach for transformation
Restrictive practice — a failure of person-centred care planning?
Our approach to assessing local authorities
Office for National Statistics
A report from the Office of National Statistics revealed an estimated 778 people died in England and Wales while homeless in 2019 – an annual increase of 7%
This is the fifth year in a row that the number of people who have died has increased.
It is the highest number since records began.
The lasting impact of violence against women and girls
Beneath our feet: improving estimates of UK land value
ONS blog - Inclusive measures of growth – How ONS is moving Beyond GDP
Boosting the UK’s research capabilities to help solve the challenges of the day
Geographic divide in health, disability and unpaid care
ONS - Disability: When the numbers alone are simply not enough
Census 2021 – Shining a light on the population
DHSC Voluntary Sector Newsletter – INCLUDING HELPLINE FOR SUPPORTING + BEHAVIOUR
Launch of new autism strategy to help autistic people live more independent and fulfilled lives
Revisiting safeguarding practice
Health and Care Bill: launch of new white paper
Adult social care – making person centred a reality
Ombudsman news special – annual review launched
local government + social care ombudsman – update
Ombudsman considers everyday human rights in new report
Broken trust: making patient safety more than just a promise
local government association (LGA)
Inclusive economies and healthy futures: Supporting place-based action to reduce health inequalities
Debate Not Hate: the impact of abuse on local democracy
Get in on the Act: Mental Health Act 2022
Including monthly Mayor’s Question time
27% of schools are exposed to dangerous levels of air pollution.
It took decades to protect our children from cigarette smoke.
We can’t make that mistake again; we must tackle toxic air pollution right now.
That’s why we introduced the Ultra-Low Emission Zone, cleaned up our buses and taxis and tackled emissions from construction sites.
But we must go further to protect the health of Londoners across our city.
My number one priority is to protect the health of Londoners, and the life chances of future generations.
I will do all I can to ensure that every Londoner can breathe clean air.
Clearing the air: pollution in London
Reforming private renting in London
My society – including support with FOI requests
PETITION – Vital information hidden
NIHR – Lockdown raised anxiety in people with anorexia and their carers, but online resources helped
Transforming out-of-hospital care for people who are homeless
Caring for older people at home can be just as good, or even better, than hospital care
Vegan diet could control blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes
seeking views on ways to substantially reduce research bureaucracy
Antipsychotics are increasingly prescribed to children and teenagers
diabetes + ways to save NHS money
New research to reduce risk of cardiovascular disease in people with “severe mental illness”
Together in research – Autumn 2023
Reducing car congestion and pollution could cut risk of disease and injuries
Stop talking and take action: working together to tackle health inequalities
Health and Social Care Committee
Health + Safety Executive (HSE)
Stress, anxiety and depression survey
Local Government Authority – Update
Would you like to shape the future of Patient Safety within the local NHS
Complete our NHS and ICS websites survey for a chance to win £100 vouchers
Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
New end of life and palliative care report
SCIELine: New strengths-based approaches resources and learning
free mental capacity act e-learning +
Strengths-based practice for council services and more
Strengths-based leadership / safeguarding / workforce
what is strong rather than what is wrong
Covid-19, learning disabilities and autism
Why are we stuck in hospital ?
Wandsworth
Enough is enough - Hard-hitting report tackles ongoing health inequalities in mental health services
Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN)
In the UK, people with brown skin are being denied equal and compassionate mental health care.
They are more likely to be brought to and kept in hospital without their consent.
They are more likely to access mental health services through the police and criminal justice systems, and to find themselves unwell and back again once released.
People with brown skin, particularly men, are more likely to be forcibly restrained and given more than the recommended amount of medication.
WCEN 2021
If you are unhappy with the care or treatment you have received from the NHS, and would like help to make a complaint, POhWER can help
They provide guidance, information and advocacy to help people get matters put right
Telephone: 0203 553 5960
Email: LondonIHCAS@pohwer.net
Letter: London IHCAS Advocacy Hub, POhWER, Hertlands House, Primett Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 3EE
If you live in Wandsworth and need support to tell people what you want, and to understand your rights, you can contact VoiceAbility
They provide advocacy for people who may be vulnerable and need support to speak up about their care needs
Telephone: 020 7924 7772
Email: wandsworth@voiceability.org
Letter: VoiceAbility, Unit B102, Trident Business Centre, 89 Bickersteth Road, Tooting, London, SW17 9SH
If you are unhappy with the care or treatment you have received from an NHS or social care service, and would like help to make a complaint, Rethink could help. They provide guidance, information and advocacy to help people get matters put right.
Telephone: 300 7900 559
Web address: Rethink Advocacy Independent Service in Wandsworth and Richmond leaflet 2.pdf
For guidance and help to find organisations and services to support your health and wellbeing needs, you can contact the Wandsworth Wellbeing Hub
Telephone: 020 3880 0366 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Email: waccg.wandsworthhub@nhs.net
Letter: Wandsworth Wellbeing Hub, 120 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London, SW19 1RH
If you, or someone you know, have / has care and support needs, and you need information and help, you can speak to Wandsworth Adult Social Services. Adult social services provide information and help to adults who have difficulty with everyday things
Telephone: 020 8871 7707 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Email: accessteam@wandsworth.gov.uk
Letter: Adult Social Care and Public Health, The Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PU
Emergency out of hours
Please contact the switchboard on 020 8871 6000 and ask for the emergency social worker
If you need information on the activities and support services that may be available to you and your family, you can contact THRIVE Online (previously known as the Family Information Service)
THRIVE Online provides information and assistance to parents, children, young people and professionals on support services and activities for the 0-19 years’ age group (25 if the young person has a special need)
Telephone: 020 8871 7899 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)
Email:thriveonline@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk
Letter: THRIVE Online, THE 4, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London, SW18 2PU
Richmond
Richmond community drug + alcohol service (RCDAS)
Mon – Weds – Thursday – Friday – 9am to 4.30pm
Tuesday 9am to 1pm women only
Tuesday 1pm to 4.30pm
Ilex House
Unit 2
94 Holly Road
TW14HF
0203 228 3020
Mortlake community association
part of Neighbourhood care group
Richmond town centre has a new ‘Safe Space’ on Friday and Saturday nights
sometimes we do not realise we are lonely
We’re expanding our Psychotherapy and Counselling service and looking for new members of the team
mindfulness – weekly from October 2022 to July 2024
Mental Health Act stats demonstrate increasing racial injustice
Compared to other London boroughs
Richmond has
The highest rate of hospital admission for mental health
The second highest rate of admission for self-harm
The 4th worst youth wellbeing scores
A third of those aged 16-19 already have a mental health diagnosis
Statistics from the Richmond Borough Health and Care Plan 2019-2021 and the Mental Health Needs Assessment 2022
Your ideas wanted
contact engagement@rbmind.org
Join carers community
contact carers@rbmind.org
Mind responds to announcement of Work Capability Assessment reforms
Bridge the gap – support booklet
Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College
New Easy News story: Nurses, teachers and postal workers strike
Shared Lives, allotments and film review
Earthquakes kill 1000s of people in Turkey and Syria
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month
Guide to Richmond’s NHS, Care & Support
Lots of info and assistance available
Focus group discussion for parents of children with SEND
breast cancer screening survey for the NHS; and - Learn the signs of sepsis
Lifelong learning in person and online - Community Partners
Persistent cough? get it checked by your GP
Connect to Tech staying safe FREE online workshop + Arts Richmond Young Writer's Competition
Including Directory of services
Talking Bubble – Telephone Befriending with Language Options
Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond
NHS South West London Integrated Care System: News & First Meeting
Children and Young Peoples Digest November 2023
including debt write off – Wendy
Winter Engagement Fund 2023/2024
Training to Support Your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Goals – 1 + 22 November
Richmond council – LBRUT – events + news
Richmond has more homeless – August 2023
Community hub – a dedicated helpline to deal with local enquiries and help signpost people to the right support at this difficult time
The helpline number is 020 8871 6555
Please visit the council’s website for the most up to date information: www.richmond.gov.uk or phone 0208 891 1411
Find out more here: www.richmond.gov.uk/community_hub
Advertise your event / activity on LBRUT website
Got a good idea – get community funding
need help finding food or essential home items
Careplace are promoting – Free Community Counselling Service – Available online or over the phone
Struggling to pay your fuel bills The Council can help
Additional grants are also available from the Household Support Fund for food, bills and other essential items, via Citizens Advice Richmond and Richmond AID
Claim £150 towards your energy bills
Free home sensors for unpaid carers in Richmond
Mental Health Awareness Week: Coping with feelings of anxiety
Free minibus service to Richmond Park
November with Richmond Libraries
Special Edition - Introducing Richmond Reads
My Richmond App | Community Centres | Build a Wetland
Meet the new Chair of the Violence Against Women and Girls Community Forum
all ability cycling in Kneller Gardens
contact outdoor.learning@outlook.com
Centre for Governance + Scrutiny (CfGS)
Bolstering scrutiny / scrutiny frontiers / guest blogs / Health & Care Bill update
Health & Care – special newsletter
council constitutions owned + understood by all
Including Anticipating, managing + adapting framework
governance & scrutiny newsletter
including the review of council constitutions + the operation of schemes of delegation for decision making
Afghanistan & Central Asian Association
Stop Levelling Down London’s Transport
Update on proposed SWR service reduction
Pressing Government for Zero Carbon Homes
Munira – stop levelling down London’s transport
Twickenham repair cafe -3rd Saturday of each month 10:30 to 13:30
I’m continuing to hold regular advice surgeries, and my team at the Twickenham office are doing all they can to help too
cost of living crisis – resources + support + advice
Help with bills + …
Hounslow
You can find details of health services in your area from NHS Choices
Call 999 for emergency services
Emergency and urgent care health services – 111
Hounslow Council: Out of hours social care support – 020 8583 2222 For more information please click here
Hounslow Council: For more information on Adult social care, please click here
Hounslow Council: For more information on Children and families, please click here
CarePlace: Provides a Directory of Services, Information and Guidance enabling direct access to local care and community services. For more information, please click here
West London NHS Trust – Mental health crisis: 24-hour helpline 0800 328 4444. For more information, please click here
safe space Hounslow crisis helpline – 0203 475 5185 – 11am to 11pm – 365 days per year
Vision for quality housing design
Here come the Community and Family Hubs
Opportunity for residents to shape the future of Council-owned buildings
Transforming consumption habits through communities
Grow food for free - gain new friends
Downton Abbey actor Jim Carter OBE has today offered support for Hounslow Council’s trailblazing new programme
Grow for the Future
a first-of-its-kind policy in the UK to turn wasteland across the London borough into new allotments - community gardens and orchards to grow food and pair them with local schools to teach children about healthy living - sustainability and biodiversity
Heston farm community space to grow fruit + vegetables – get involved
English lessons for asylum seekers
contact
Autumnal fun at Boston Manor Park
Come and visit the Community Hub at Feltham Assembly Hall every Tuesday, 2pm – 5pm
Opportunity for residents to shape the future of Council-owned buildings
contact spp@hounslow.gov.uk
Hounslow Council reaches record-breaking allotment occupancy
apply for an allotment – why not ? - Wendy
Hounslow hosts first Serious Violence Summit at Brentford FC’s stadium
a first-of-its-kind circular neighbourhood
Cost of living + general support
Fridays – 10 -1pm
Upskill into green opportunities
Cost of Living Marketplace Roadshow
One in 14 people live with diabetes, and every one of them matters
The Know Diabetes Service is a local North West London digital health platform that can help with self-care, behaviour change, and lifelong learning messages to the 360,000 people with diabetes and those at risk of type 2 in our area
Mental health + wellbeing resources for Londoners
downloading the free NHS weight loss plan
Hampton Kempton waterworks railway +
Get laughing – it’s free therapy +
including ideas around coping + thriving despite anxiety
Including support regarding cost of living rises
Healthier Together – a Hounslow Initiative
Hounslow Heath Community Walks - every Monday
'Bark' to the future - give us your views on dog plans
Hounslow’s young people to benefit from UK’s first mental health crisis cafe
Hounslow providing training for Green Jobs + lots more
Activities in Hounslow + Cllr Salman Shaheen’s desire to expand allotment provision in the borough
Transforming unused land into community plots
Should other boroughs follow suit? - Wendy
Anyone can struggle to maintain good mental health from, no matter who they are
Whilst there's no permanent fix, these 5 free things can help to lighten the load
1 – Talk to someone
If you’re not in the place for extra support like therapy this is one of the best things you can do to take care of yourself and others. Or use the power of talking for even more good and become a Community Champion
2 – Get out in nature
There are lots of gorgeous green spaces in Hounslow, and across London
Check out what's going on outdoors this season at in Hounslow
3 – Set aside time for yourself
Self-care doesn’t need to mean spending on bath bombs
Dedicate time to something you love – cooking, reading, gaming, drawing, journaling, watching movies, playing an instrument and more can all help you de-stress
4 – Gentle exercise
You don’t need to do HIIT workouts at the gym to benefit from exercise
As little as 15-30 minutes of walking can give you a serotonin boost
Looking for something more serious
Try the free NHS Couch to 5K app or find free classes
5 – Visit
Our Take Care, Take 5 hub offers accessible solutions for mental health concerns
Find support on physical health, financial worries, and employment skills here too
Fly Tipping is a problem, not only in Hounslow, but across London and the country
In 2021, Hounslow Council received over 24,000 reports of fly tips across the borough which cost us over £1.3m
We are determined to reduce the incidents of fly tipping which will make our borough cleaner and greener
Support for loneliness – don’t blame yourself for feeling lonely it happens to us all
younger people’s mental health hub
crafting + festival of story telling
Make a connection for Children’s Mental Health Week - events + Place2Be
Looking out for those around you
Looking out for friends and colleagues at work
Looking out for your friends (aimed at young people)
Looking out for children and young people (aimed at parents and carers)
community provision
Connecting people with activities that can help them to overcome the barriers they face
A travel training service to help people with disabilities to travel independently
Supporting people with disabilities into training and employment opportunities
The Art of Coproduction - A Guerrilla Guide
Or ask for one for free
care in the community – really – Steph de la Haye
Hounslow Wellbeing network
contact
07466 736718
Sutton +
Sutton Healthwatch – Mental Well Being
The economic case for investing in the prevention of mental health conditions in the UK
what drives health inequalities
Mental health and the cost-of-living crisis report: another pandemic in the making?
Check out our ways to cope with anxiety
Working at system level to eradicate health inequalities for the UK’s black community
A pebble in a still pond: the impact of community-led work on health inequalities
Sutton Mental Health Foundation – Sutton Wellbeing Line
We all get more forgetful as we get older, but there are things you can do about it.
The way you live your life, and in particular the way in which you eat,
can make a huge difference to your memory, slowing down cognitive decline or even reversing it
Westminster Drug project (WDP)
How less pay has affected people's mental health and wellbeing
New podcast: Do we care enough
New analysis: Care home residents hard hit by reduced hospital care
Action as an antidote to despair
Do patients prefer online consultations in general practice
Taking action to build good health
including importance of social determinants
Let’s talk differently about health: why framing matters
Quantifying health inequalities in England
Building an organisational culture of continuous improvement
What are the public’s priorities for the NHS And is the government listening
A framework for NHS action on social determinants of health
A time for radical innovation and improvement
What’s important when building a strong learning community to drive improvement?
Can automation help with growing dissatisfaction among GPs?
Why housing matters for health
The NHS was never meant to go it alone
Everyday Racism: How racist is Britain
CRÈME project – stands for Communicating the Race Equality Message Effectively
By 2025, we aim to:
Engage 1 million people
Support 5,000 Digital Inclusion Hubs across the nation
We want:
Everyone to have the internet access they need
Everyone to have somewhere local to go for help to use the internet
Everyone to feel able and safe in the online world
Let’s solve data poverty with people – not for them
Digital inclusion as a basic human right
9 million people struggle to use the internet independently and 7 million people
(11% of the UK's adult population)
are still offline
(Digital Nation UK, 2020)
1 October - aims
Scrap VAT on broadband social tariffs
All technology to be reused for good
Invest to fix the digital divide - to boost productivity and leave no-one behind
Black Identities – Student Discount – Hearing Voices – Wild Therapy
Therapists Challenging Racism and Oppression: The unheard voices
Camden +
Involvement Opportunity - Partnership Clinical Policy Working Group Representative
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Training in community research
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Does you have problems with social housing?
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Autism research
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Involvement Opportunity - Partnership Quality and Safety Committee Service User/Carer Representative
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Research into Trauma informed care – advisory group opportunity
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Body camera update
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Information about PIP assessment guide
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
London’s section 136 pathway and Health Based Place of Safety Specification guidance
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Community Development in Camden - Kentish Town Cycling Club
contact alice.langley@candi.nhs.uk
Research interview - antipsychotic medication for paranoia - 1 hour - £15
contact
Do you need proof of benefits letter for ID purposes?
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Have you been supporting someone on an impatient ward?
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Hestia's online groups and activity programme, volunteering and training
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
PETRA- Pregabalin study
contact thesidebysidenetwork@gmail.com
food support in Islington
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Safeguarding training at C&I
contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Do you take an antipsychotic medication
Contact GEMS@ucl.ac.uk
Housing issues – what is your view
Contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
[PODCAST] Deaths by Welfare – Resisting DWP violence – Dolly Sen
National Voices held a conference exploring the topic of Integrated Care Systems
As the ICS Bill works its way through the final stages of the Parliamentary process, and the last constitutional questions are being resolved, now is the right moment to identify the changes that we actually want to see as a result of this fundamental shift in the way the health and care system is organised.
We want to see better, more equal outcomes for people, especially those not currently well supported by existing models.
We also want to see more coordinated and effective care that enables people to live well, with fewer barriers between communities and formal services.
[RESEARCH] Participants over 50 required
contact harry.costello@ucl.ac.uk
[FUNDING] Green grants for Islington
Camden + Islington recovery college
Oxevision cameras and the Trust now in the Independent
Conversations Around Loneliness & Mental Health booklet
[OPPORTUNITY] PPI in Commissioning
There is a researcher looking to interview service users and carers who have experience on being involved with commissioning or working with commissioners.
The interview takes about 40 minutes and will be recorded but your name will not appear in the final paper against any quotes they use.
Let me know if you are interested and I will pass on your email address.
This is external to the trust.
There is a small payment for the interview depending how long it takes – probably £20 or so. paid by BACS.
contact TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Are you on a waiting list for your mental health
Contact
Does anyone have experience of calling 111 for help with their mental health
Any thoughts please contact TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Wanted – Coproduction anecdotes
contact TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Hand in Hand peer buddy – feedback requested
Any thoughts please contact TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Learn something new in 22 for free
New Peer Buddy Scheme – Hand in Hand Islington
Any thoughts please contact
TheSidebySideNetwork@gmail.com
Free Community Research online course launches | Co-Production Collective
Second independent audit of ECT published finds patient safety is being put at risk
A second audit of NHS mental health Trusts, using Freedom of Information Act requests has confirmed that both the administration and monitoring of Electroconvulsive Treatment (ECT) in England are failing to guarantee the safety of patients.
ECT involves the passing of sufficient electricity through the brain, under general anaesthesia, to cause a seizure.
Some claim it is a safe and effective treatment for severe depression.
But a recent review found little evidence that it is any better than placebo and concluded that it causes persistent or permanent memory loss in 12% to 55% of patients.1
The largest study to date has just confirmed that it does not, as claimed, prevent suicide.2
The audit confirmed that about 2,500 people are given ECT annually in England.
The majority continue to be women (67%), and over 60 (58%).
More than one in three (37%) are being forcibly given ECT against their will, and 18% of Trusts are not complying with the law regarding second opinions relating to compulsory treatment.
There were slight declines, compared to a previous audit,3 in the use of appropriate measures to assess efficacy, down to 30%, and standardised measures of memory loss, down to 24%.
There was a 47-fold difference between the two Trusts with the highest (Avon & Wiltshire, and North Staffordshire) and the lowest (Mersey Care) rates per capita.
Thus, the probability of getting ECT seems to be a postcode lottery based on the opinions of local psychiatrists.
The majority of Trusts were unable to provide any data for positive outcomes or for adverse effects during treatment (usually a 3-week period involving about 10 electroshocks).
None provided data on efficacy or adverse effects beyond end of treatment.
ECT in England is supposed to be monitored by the Royal College of Psychiatrists via their ‘ECT Accreditation Service’ (ECTAS).
But ECTAS does not monitor some of the issues addressed by this independent audit, such as how many Trusts are using proper assessment measures, how many are complying with the Mental Health Act regarding second opinions for forced treatment, and how many ECT patients had first been offered psychological treatment – in compliance with N.I.C.E. guidelines.
ECTAS has no powers to sanction ECT clinics that fail to meet even their limited set of standards, and has never disaccredited an ECT clinic.
About 10% of ECT clinics do not bother to sign up to the ECTAS process at all
The audit concluded:
'Given the apparent failure of current monitoring and accrediting ECT clinics in England, by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ ECT Accreditation Service (ECTAS), an independent government sponsored review is urgently needed.'
[RESOURCE] Recovery After Rape
We have obtained a copy of the workbook - Recovery After Rape
As it can be triggering, I won't send it out indiscriminately but if you want a pdf of it for yourself or someone else, just say.
Contact
thesidebysidenetwork@gmail.com
[EVENTS] Wednesday workshops for young black men aged 18-25
[RESOURCE] Mental Health and Debt booklet
Click here for the write to your MP template
National Voices' submission to the Health and Social Care Select Committee
DIALOG+ and the Recovery Star
Dear Friends,
I was wondering if you have experience of either DIALOG+ or the Recovery Star
(or other stars – more about those here: History of the star + Recovery star 4)
There was an element of co-production in the Recovery Star for Mental Health, and there has since been an Un-Recovery Star, also from the user-survivor movement which outlines the things that work against our recovery
These are the questions that the DIALOG
tool asks
and these are the areas of the 4th Edition Recovery star
Note that it used to contain “work” but this has been dropped now
The Recovery Star covers ten outcome areas:
Managing mental health
Physical health
Living skills
Friends and community
Use of time
Relationships
Addictive behaviour
Home
Identity and self-esteem
Trust and hope
The Recovery Star (4th Edition) is underpinned by a five-stage, ten step Journey of Change model:
Stuck (1-2)
Accepting help (3-4)
Believing and trying (5-6)
Learning (7-8)
Self-reliance (9-10)
I would be interested to hear your opinions and in particular how you think they compare.
Thanks
Bev
Impact assessment of the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019
Do you have experience of the Camden Early Intervention Service
We are looking for people who have has some experience of the early intervention service – the one based at Greenland Road at the moment.
If this might be you, we would love to hear from you.
Kind regards
Bev
thesidebysidenetwork@gmail.com
for all aspects of family live
DANCE for JOY
McPin Involvement Bulletin - Issue 47 - September 2023
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry which uses the format of three lines.
Here are our haikus.
We hope you enjoy reading them.
The Benefits System:
I have no money.
Brown envelope arrives, phew.
Do I deserve it?
Racism:
You pray to their gods
Then, under your burning cross,
You murdered them all
Propaganda:
Feeding me with lies
Why not report some good news?
Keeping me in fear.
Truth About Disability Benefits: Dispatches
UC Success Rate Secrets Out, Cost Of Living Payments Still Missing, UC Migration Cover Up
PIP Means Test Fear, 25 Fold Long Covid Award Increase, DWP Call Centre Warning
Budget Good and Bad News, PIP Extension Delay, UC Cruelty Warning
Missing PIP Payments, Legacy Benefits Uplift Case, New Benefits Rates
Legacy Benefits Appeal Fails, WCA May Be Scrapped, PIP Assessment Changes Delay
Is this the solution to the DWP not answering the phone? From 4 PIP points to 50 without an appeal
Alarming Increase In PIP Disqualifications, DWP Snatches Back Money Using Secrets and Lies
The Hardest Conditions To Claim PIP For, Protection From PIP Punishment, New Sanctions Trap
WCA To Be Abolished, Your PIP Success Chances May Be Better Than You Think
First Cost Of Living Payment Date, Secret Reports To Be Published, Massive Attack On Claimants
DWP Telephone Disaster Puts Claimants at Risk, Disability Benefits Fraud Film Disgrace
No Legal Safeguards When WCA Abolished, Disability Cost Of Living Payment Dates
Atos Wiped Out In PIP Bidding War, Media Hate Campaign Against Support Group Claimants Begins
DWP Deliberately Cut-Off Half Million PIP Callers In April, PIP Vs ADP Success Rates
It’s OK to not feel OK during challenging times
Codependency- The Unexpected Addicts
Kingston hospital + Hounslow + richmond community healthcare (HRCH) are developing a joint strategy – 30 November + 5 December
contact
Kingston Hospital’s Health Talks podcast
Quality Priorities for 2022/23 – We would like to hear from you
Contact
South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
Sutton Crisis Café – Sutton Mental Health Foundation (smhf.org.uk) – for info regarding the café in Sutton
Constructive & non-clinical alternative to A&E | Sunshine Recovery Cafe | Mental Health Crisis – based in Merton
Mental Health Recovery Cafe | Hestia – based in Wandsworth
Recovery Hub – Richmond Borough Mind (rbmind.org) – based in Twickenham
South West London Patient Engagement Group (PEG) – join now
Survey regarding mental health + physical health
contact sherry.fuller@swlondon.nhs.uk
External Opportunity – Creating information sheets for women on Sodium Valporate & 1 to 1 interview to test a new communication tool ‘Is valproate the right treatment for me to manage my mental health’
contact
or
Can you help with some Carer Recovery Research
South West London Mental Health Strategy
Dear Lived Experience Network Members
help-claim-benefits-and-increase-your-income
Ways to claim benefits and increase your income
https://www.gov.uk/the-warm-home-discount-scheme
Warm home discount schemes for residents in London
https://www.richmond.gov.uk/services/cost_of_living_hub
Cost of living hub for residents in Richmond
https://www.merton.gov.uk/communities-and-neighbourhoods/money-advice/cost-of-living
Help for Merton residents
https://wandsworth.gov.uk/cost-of-living-hub/
Cost of living hub for Wandsworth residents
https://www.sutton.gov.uk/w/cost-of-living-support-1
Sutton Council cost of living support webpage
https://www.kingston.gov.uk/benefits-5/support-rising-living-costs
Kingston council cost of living support webpage
Additionally, we recognise that for others the added stresses, financial strains and change in routine can put additional pressure on people
Crisis Cafes are open at different times over the festive period for anyone living within Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton or Wandsworth who needs additional emotional support
Sutton Crisis Cafe - Sutton Mental health Foundation
for info regarding the café in Sutton
Constructive & non-clinical alternative to A&E | Sunshine Recovery Cafe | Mental Health Crisis
296a Kingston Road, SW20 8LX- run by cdars based in Merton
Mental Health Recovery Cafe | Hestia
based in Wandsworth
Recovery Hub – Richmond Borough Mind (rbmind.org)
based in Twickenham
for Kingston residents
Alternatively, there is also the 24-hour Mental Health Crisis Line: 0800 028 8000
Mental health crisis line (swlstg.nhs.uk)
SWLSTG Stakeholder Bulletin - Autumn 2023
Survey NHS England : Learning from People about Things That Go Wrong in the NHS
contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Strategy Stakeholder Steering Group - 11 December
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
New Hearing Voices Group in Teddington every 2nd Thursday of each month 5.30-7pm - Starting 9 November
contact
Kevin.Fullicks@swlstg.nhs.uk
Lived Experience representative for the Perinatal Transformation Programme by 13 November
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
SWLStG Carers' Survey
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Wellbeing courses for carers - free online workshop Monday 13 November
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Your experience of adult eating disorder community outpatient and day unit services at SLaM and SWLStG's
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Invitation to a Carers' Workshop – 22 November 2023 - Everyday Church, Wimbledon
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Opportunity for Young adults (18-25yrs) to join the Vested Panel
contact
Promoting Hospital Rooms Exhibition & Workshop
contact
Owen.Reilly@swlstg.nhs.uk
Thinking Works - Fuel poverty support service, information
contact
enquiries@thinkingworks.co.uk
Community Peer Support Sessions for people with a diagnosis of Schizophrenics
contact
nigel.muris@swlstg.nhs.uk
Free Carers Week Activities for Carers, Families and Friends
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Carers / family and friends Group and welcome mornings - Avalon Ward
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Workshop on developing a perinatal mental health peer support for women exposed to partner violence
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Joining Black Thoughts, every 1st Thursday of the month, 6:30-8pm via EventBrite
Contact
involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Become a Peer Leader in the NHS - Peer Leadership development Programme
contact
New pilot service launched to support adults with eating disorders in south west London
contact
Adultseatingdisordersteam@swlstg.nhs.uk
Or BEAT ? - Wendy
Voluntary participation using MindMeds App : share your views and feed back
Contact
Opportunity:- Use of Force Focus Group
Contact
Involvement Opportunity – ENRICHMENT
contact rhiannon.foster@city.ac.uk
IAPT Rebranding survey
contact
Check-in with the Involvement Team – 2 paid, 1 hour check-ins per year – please tell us what day(s) of the week, and time(s) are best for you
We will get in touch to arrange our check in
contact involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Mindful Movement to Boost Mental Well-being
contact involvement@swlstg.nhs.uk
Research Study :- Survey on supporting Young people’s mental health aged 16-25 years
Help us develop a new mental health strategy – South West London Integrated Care System
contact
Survey from National Institute of Health Research – Understanding the experiences of people who have been living at home with a family member with dementia
contact
jayne.astbury@manchester.ac.uk
Participants needed for Social Cognition in Anorexia Study
contact
Advert for: IAPT Internship Program Talk Wandsworth
For further details / informal visits contact:
Noel Brown (Wellbeing Lead) on 07779 451 172 or
Opportunity with Healthy London Partnership – Delays in S135 Assessments Task & Finish Group – opportunity for service users to become expert advisors for London wide project
Opportunity – sharing your lived experience – Occupational Therapy Course Programme @ St Georges University of London
J.Cronin-Davis@sgul.kingston.ac.uk
Gathering your views of SWLStGs services
email on
Digital Inclusion Information
Involvement have gathered information regarding digital inclusion
Contact
Mental Wellbeing weekly football-based programme – Queen's Park Rangers Community Trust
Contact Connor Bagenal
Inclusive Projects Officer
QPR In the Community Trust
07483 006 992
Twitter: @QPRTrust
Have your say on our five-year digital strategy – SWLStG's
Contact
THE CREATIVE WELLBEING PROJECT
EMAIL:
OR TEXT OR CALL 07711 938 921
Social prescribing in Richmond – connecting people with activities in the local community – Ruils in partnership with the Richmond GP Alliance
Please contact Narinder Dosanjh, our project manager, for more information
To read more about our link workers click here
To download our new Healthy Lifestyle Resource, click here
Link to you tube video re: what is social prescribing
Link to the Ruil’s website – Social Prescribing | RUILS Charity
You can self refer to this service you do not need to go through your GP
Britney Spears: What is lithium, the drug she claims she was put on
Your views on the use of digital technology to enhance the care and support offered by South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
contact
Free Live Online Exercises Classes with Clinical Exercise Therapy Team – Mon + Weds + Thurs
contact exercisetherapy@swlstg.nhs.uk
Coral Mental Health Crisis Hub
Thousands to benefit from soups and shakes diet on the NHS from today
Talk Wandsworth – Well-being resources
Talk Wandsworth – Well-being workshops (under wellbeing subtitle)
Your local IAPT websites can be found at:
Merton Uplift: https://www.mertonuplift.nhs.uk
Sutton Uplift: https://www.suttonuplift.co.uk
Talk Wandsworth: https://www.talkwandsworth.nhs.uk
Kingston: https://www.icope.nhs.uk/kingston
Richmond: https://www.richmondwellbeingservice.nhs.uk
A Caring Mind | A blog for carers of mental health
Safely Held Spaces | Wellbeing & Compassion | UK
SWLSTG Online Live Exercise Sessions
contact exercisetherapy@swlstg.nhs.uk
Springfield Village development
Have your say about Kingston Hospital’s communications
HOUNSLOW AND RICHMOND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
You can join NHS foundation trusts then put yourself forward as a governor
Ideas to help boost your mental wellbeing
Do something active - to be kind to your mind
Reduce your stress by tackling your money worries
Struggling to sleep? - top tips to help you put sleep first
Education
Level 2 Qualifications – Without paying a penny
Covid-19: how tech could transform education
we find any learner – free training
London school of Economics – EVENTS
LGBT Foundation
A helpline for LGBT+ people
They provide confidential listening, emotional support and advice for any issue.
Call 0345 330 3030 between 9am-9pm (Mon-Fri) and 10am-6pm (weekends)
Switchboard
A helpline and instant messenger service for LGBT+ people
They provide non-judgmental, confidential and supportive listening for any issue.
Call 0300 330 0630, or use the instant messenger service at https://switchboard.lgbt
Both available between 10am-10pm, 365 days a year
Samaritans
A freephone service for anyone in a crisis, providing confidential and non-judgmental listening.
Call 116123, any time, 365 days a year
SHOUT
A freetext service for anyone in a crisis
They provide non-judgmental listening and signposting to help people in distress feel calmer and safer
Text the word SHOUT to 85258, any time, 365 days a year
Papyrus
A free text, phone and email service for young people in crisis, offering confidential and non-judgemental listening
Text 07960039967, Call 0800 0684141 or
between 9am-12am everyday or access their website for resources on
SOS (Silence Of Suicide)
Offers a crisis helpline over the weekend and a non-crisis chat line of selected days.
Crisis helpline 0300 1020 505 (Friday-Monday 8pm-12am) and non-crisis chatline 0300 1020 505 (Tuesday-Thursday 8pm-12am) or access their website for more support
https://sossilenceofsuicide.org
London Friend
Organisation offering various LGBTQ+ support e.g. counselling, drug and alcohol support and social support groups etc.
Website
https://londonfriend.org.uk
Galop
Support for LGBTQ+ people who have experienced abuse and violence
Various support services and helplines
National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline0800 9995428 (The helpline is open:Monday to Friday 10am – 5pm, Wednesday and Thursday 10am – 8pm)
Webchat
https://galop.org.uk/get-help/helplines/ (Wednesday and Thursday 5-8pm) or ChatBot (Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week)
LGBT+ Hate Crime Helpline 0207 7042040 (Monday-Friday 10-4pm)
to ask for a call back to avoid charges
National Conversion Therapy Helpline 0800 1303335
(Free of charge open Monday-Thursday 10am-8:30pm, Friday 10-4pm)
Free National Saturday Club at St Mary’s University – creating positive change
Power to people
✊ Perseverance 💙
Citizens commission on human rights international – the MH industry watchdog
Ban Electro convulsive treatment – PETITION
👨👩👧👦 Let's get the FDA to do its job
🔎💊 Drugging Foster Care Children
World health organisation + UN commit to zero psychiatric coercion
UN Human Rights Council Condemns Forced Psychiatric Practices
Including Electro convulsive treatment - this report is many years old (2018) so why no action locally from Health + well-being board + Integrated Care Board ? - despite knowing about the issue ? - are these boards failing us ? - Wendy
Time magazine wrote :-
America has reached peak therapy why is our Mental Health getting worse ?
which states
"research suggests both misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis are common in psychiatry
One 2019 study even concluded that the criteria underlying psychiatric diagnoses are 'scientifically meaningless' due to their inconsistent metrics, overlapping symptoms, and limited scope
That's a sobering conclusion because diagnosis largely determines treatment."
We need to look at “social determinates”of well being ?
Power to people ?
Housing + income ?
Well being / doughnut economies ? - Wendy
Every year - 12 million Christmas jumpers are sold in the UK
95% of Christmas jumpers are made of plastic - so that jumper will probably live longer than you will
dust
Byssinosis is the medical term for the impact that inhaling fabric fibres has on human lungs
for a world were everyone matters
Global standard for self-directed support
freeze social rents – EMAIL MP
We need to commit to building the power of ordinary people to fight against wealthy elites
Community food systems should be part of the new normal – here’s why
Poverty is the result of a welfare system which denies people the means to live a dignified life
Levelling up begins with quality public services
Making workers foot the bill for social care and pensions is deeply unfair
From Universal Credit to a Living Income
Tell the Prime Minister to give us a Great Homes Upgrade – PETITION
The victim-blaming culture of housing associations has trickled down from the government
The environment is paying the price for bad economic advice
The UK is in a crisis of living standards, not public finances
well being economy – Wakefield
Why don’t we just understand why it costs more to be poor
Fuel duty cuts in the UK will largely benefit the SUV-driving elite
A care workforce fit for Britain
We can’t fix the NHS crisis until we fix our social care crisis
We need universal basic services to tackle the climate crisis
Why carbon taxes should be spent on insulating the UK’s draughty homes
Government will pay landlords 5 times more than it will spend on affordable housing in next 4 years
The £58bn housing benefit bill dwarfs the £11.5bn Affordable Homes Programme
think tank New Economics Foundation has found
How long would it take you to earn the amount a FTSE 100 CEO makes in one year?
Unless Whitehall devolves its powers, ‘levelling up’ is doomed to fail
not just Whitehall ? - Wendy
Three fifths of private renters cannot afford the cost of living
Have we been conned by consultants?
Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing
A 2% tax on the UK’s richest families could raise £22bn a year
Universal credit is £890 short of what’s needed to meet the cost of living
Should we all be troublemakers at work?
Migrant agricultural workers face absolute poverty while supermarkets profit
Why asset managers own the world
Why antiracism means anticapitalism
People on the lowest incomes are paying even more of their salaries in tax under this government
Why the climate crisis means higher prices
Well being economy now ? - Wendy
The best things do come through big, bold change
Trapped in poverty by our social security system
how we can enshrine every person’s right to life’s essentials:
education, health and social care, a decent home, childcare, nutritious food, clean air and water, energy, transport
Change won't come from politicians at conferences
Locality – the power of community
Keep it Local – read and share new research from Bradford and Bristol
NEW RESEARCH: role of community orgs in illness prevention services
NEW RESEARCH on VCSE organisations & neighbourhood health
community power revolution – manifesto
Introduce a Community Power Act
Create a National Community Ownership Strategy
Put communities in charge of local economic development
Make collaboration – not competition - the guiding principle of public services
Champion community-led housing and neighbourhood planning
use collective intelligence to solve public problems
Five stories of change for a sustainable future
Including South Korea’s Green new Deal
Our diet is harming the planet
How do we eliminate the school readiness gap
How junk food advertising impacts young people
What the government needs to do to reduce the cost of heat pumps
Have you ever seen a heat pump?
Three quarters of UK adults underestimate the amount of calories in snacks
The low-carbon workforce of the future
Dates for your diary 🗓 - October – November
Democracy doing it for ourselves - 📅 15 November 2023
How to turn big ideas into reality 🚀 - 16 November
healthcare in a modern age - 📅 28 November 2023
How climate action can transform the world 🌏 - 7 December
How to build healthier neighbourhoods 🍎 - 11 December
Directory of Social Change people to work a four-day week
Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)
realisable strategies for local economies
Our aim is to achieve social justice, good local economies and
effective public services for everyone, everywhere
the final report of the Liverpool City Region Land Commission: Our Land
Community Wealth Building Centre of Excellence (CfX)
community wealth building: a history
Raising council tax won’t fix local government
Levelling up paper falls way short of what is needed
Building community wealth in Lewes
Community-led development: a roadmap for asset ownership
Building Community Wealth in Scotland
“It’s not about us asking for trust, it’s about us radically trusting citizens”
Audrey Tang
We're witnessing a fundamental shift in public participation patterns
Community members want to participate on their terms and on their preferred platforms
community calling: people want more influence
We found that the feeling of disconnect runs deep between decision makers and the public, with 79% of people agreeing that Westminster and Whitehall are making decisions about people and places they know little about
We also found significant support for community power
71% of people think that there should be a legal right for communities to have a say over how local services are run
"The local people know what's best for them and the decisions that need to be made."
Focus group participant
A community-powered NHS: making prevention a reality
It's time for a Community Power Act
What ever happened to 'taking back control'
Six years after the Brexit campaign promised British voters the opportunity to 'take back control', nearly eight in ten people say they have not much or no control over important decisions that affect their neighbourhood and local community
Islington: a community powered approach to inequality
New Local has been working with Islington Council’s Inequality Taskforce to launch a bold new approach in one of London’s most deprived boroughs
Investing in the future of our communities
Public service reform is back on the table
how building trust can help tackle health inequalities
The Westminster bubble must be burst
not just the Westminster bubble ? - Wendy
Community engagement and the power of ‘what if?’
Does economic growth lead to higher happiness?
why councils of the future need to be small, nimble and digital
The Welsh Wellbeing of Future Generations Act has lessons for us all
There is real opportunity for big reforms
How we lost sight of the point of public services
The case for whole system reform moving towards strengths-based and relational services
Accountability is not a one-way street
Labour must fill the policy void on public services and put a focus on prevention
"The public sector has lost any sense of long-term strategy. In its place is a bunch of increasingly incoherent, ad-hoc initiatives and interventions”
How We Did It: Tackling rough sleeping
“You hit the target but you miss the point because it's all about numbers not people.”
What next for ICSs? The Hewitt Review at a glance
Fiscal devolution: why we need it and how to make it work
How can local areas ‘design out’ severe hardship? A new framework
Five reasons to give communities power to tackle poverty
We’ve assembled a rebel alliance – but their ideas should be mainstream
Evidence unpacked: does community power boost wellbeing?
NHS at 75: why the workforce plan should start with communities
Levelling up’s mission: redistributing power and resources to communities everywhere
Building the Rebel Alliance: How community power is driving change in Norfolk
“It felt like a levelling out”: How people in poverty are changing the system in Trafford
“This is the best opportunity we’ve had for community power”: Claire Hazelgrove
featuring the idea of mature + immature councils – Wendy
A Labour Vision for Community Power
Participation - prevention – devolution
“A Labour government would inherit public services in crisis
yet from day one it will need to demonstrate a different way of doing government and empowering communities
Traditional top-down decision-making is hoarding too much power at the centre
and change will need to come from the grassroots up.”
Labour council leaders have set out a route for Labour to deliver its objectives in government
starting with giving communities meaningful power and influence
In the context of heavily constrained public spending
the group of seven Labour leaders say the party will need to focus on making better use of existing money if it is to ensure better outcomes and improve local neighbourhoods
Their vision sets out how Labour's Take Back Control Act can redistribute power across the system
offering locally rooted solutions to complex issues from poor health to inequality
Trusting the People: the case for community-powered conservatism
As a member of our community group you get a free space – Wendy
How We Did It: Unlocking community assets through local partnerships
Including Wandsworth Council – I would love to know if this is the reality “on the ground” – Wendy
Can we democratise city planning? 🏙️
Nurturing wellbeing in our neighbourhoods
Big change as Power to Change launch new website
Community Power Act – get involved
Take Back the High Street – community right to buy
How can we encourage a more equitable community business sector? 🤝🏽
Work in progress: Levelling up perspectives from the community to the national level
Community powered high streets
understanding community business compared to other 3rd sector orgs
Plunkett Foundation – events +
including community managing public funding + community right to buy
including events
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION REMOVED HOMOSEXUALITY FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES IN 1990
32 YEARS LATER, ATTEMPTS TO ‘CURE’ US ARE STILL HAPPENING (and LEGAL).
Conversion therapy includes medical, psychiatric, psychological, religious, cultural or any other interventions that seek to change, “cure”, or suppress the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of a person.
Figures from the UK Government’s National LGBT Survey found that:
7% of LGBT people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy.
10 % of asexual people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy.
13% of trans people have been offered or undergone conversion therapy.
Equality Trust blog: Why do we need to talk about mental illness, shame, stigma and inequality
Carer's Leave Act, wealth surplus research, prevention in health and social care
including action to include community groups in supply chain
Strategic comms training, workplace discrimination, strip searches of children
State of child poverty, Disabled people's rights, Roma homelessness including events in September
Threats to the Rule of Law, discriminatory Voter ID, fertility-friendly workplaces
including events
Racial justice priorities, rights of older people, VAWG sector manifesto
Disabled People's Manifesto, algorithmic discrimination, immigration detention
Cost of giving, racism and the environmental emergency, attitudes towards domestic abuse
Baker Street Irregular Astronomers
both in Richmond + Hounslow
Real junk food project – twickenham
Capital Growth – Training + events
Are councils doing enough to support Londoners to grow food
The role of councils in community food growing
Come celebrate the harvest season🌽
Building relationships between schools and peri-urban farms in London
Cosy up with our autumn programme 🍂
Don't miss our autumn workshops
Can urban food growing tackle the climate and nature emergency
including community assets - Wendy
The Harmony Project’s new report calls for greener prisons
harmony project – educating young people
The Story of Umgibe: A farm in a plastic bag
Reducing reoffending through growing, cooking and eating good food
Linking GPs and farms: The potential for improved health and healing
The garden as refuge: The restorative power of green spaces and nature
You'll never guess what the Government's done now!
Child Poverty and Children's Dietary Health
Hull residents given new Right to Grow Food
15 November – protecting food growing sites
Marcus Rashford's #WRITENOW Campaign calls on MPs to #EndChildFoodPoverty
📯 270,000 children are due to benefit from a major announcement made on 20 February 2023
Latest figures show 3.7 million children have experienced food poverty
What do food shortages say about our food system and what can be done about it? 🍅
Crucial Healthy Start target missed
How baby foods are marketed and the importance of nutrition in early years
free school meals across the UK
New report celebrating volunteers across the UK passionate about creating a better food system
How can we reduce health inequalities amongst children?
Affordable food for all – WHICH PETITION
How your small decisions can make a difference
Top five herbs you can grow at home to help save the bees
Tips to up your recycling game
National allotment week – a proud history
Tell the government to tackle ultra-processed foods – PETITION
Choosing the healthier alternative
Can you help us share 1,000 events in London National Park City? 📣☀️
Heritage Open Days – Online Event Directory Live
including energy advice + funding + gardening
lots of events
community assembly – 10 December
Peak migration, new podcasts and anti-pollution plans 💧🦆
Marking South Asian Heritage Month
Open House Festival at The National Archives
Commemorate the 75th anniversary of Windrush 📣
Presenting the 2022 recipients of our Activate Levelling Up Fund for Activists
Act now to get London walking more
London walking routes map goes from strength to strength
Chancellor confirms £2bn investment for walking and cycling
Children nationwide taking steps to reduce air pollution
Latest government data confirms quieter streets are safer streets
Please send a tweet to your MP and let's #ReclaimOurPavements
We all deserve safer streets – agree – ACTION
Have your say: Respond to clean air consultation
Share your #WalkToSchoolStories
Art
for Claire
A conversation about Starseeds
Arts activism + cultural exchange
Co-op Community Fund and All Change
Known in Your Bones Podcast – Episode 1
Known in Your Bones Podcast – Episode 2
Known in Your Bones Podcast – Episode 3
Known in Your Bones Podcast – Episode 4
Known in Your Bones Podcast – Episode 5
Who were the Impressionists? 🌤️
Experience the world through art 🌍
imprint 👣
creating art from things around you🪁
A moment of joy in here
Spot a moment of joy in your day, sit in it, recognise it and embrace the feelings it brings
Think about how you could capture this one moment in a creative way
It might be a poem, or a sketch of something that elicited the joy
It might be a song that's brought you joy and you might create a dance or a musical response inspired by the moment
Create some land art
Find a space to create your own land art, it could be in a local park or on your street
Use natural objects you can find in your immediate surroundings like stones, twigs, leaves and arrange them in whatever shape or pattern you'd like
If you're not outside or can't find any natural objects immediately around you, you could draw them and experiment with textures in any medium you like
List 10 words that are things you feel grateful for
The words could describe feelings, people, objects, environments – anything
Now, get creative with your words
You could create a poem that has each word at the start of a sentence
You could create a drawing to visualise each word
You could find a song which has each of those words in, make a playlist and hit the dance floor
There is an alternative (TIALT)
Download your FREE chapter from Wanderful
Wander and wonder
Sitting still is overrated
If you are in a bad mood go for a walk
If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk
Hippocrates
Ignite Imaginations – latest news
Autumn Season Announcement: Murmurations | Pop Up Performance Shop | Butterflies
Drumming Workshops and Ukulele Workshops
Neurological Music Therapy Group
Developing a theory of thriving
Growing the loneliness evidence base
New Zealand Living Standards Framework update and first wellbeing report
Personal power: reframing the locus of control
Civic strength and a purposeful nation
Beyond GDP what matters to national well- being
Understanding how agency and control matters for community wellbeing
Belonging and wellbeing through physical activity
I want respect, loyalty, trust, understanding, listening, ability to compromise and love in my relationship
Participant - aged 17
The Continuation on Prevention Through Creative Arts
#BeTender - 14 Acts of Kindness Challenge
The Impact of Kindness - #BeTender Campaign
Visa and Mastercard stop ads on Pornhub following child porn lawsuit
Introducing: Expose the harm – PORN
kids at risk the longer online safety bill is delayed – EMAIL MP
Our Online Safety Bill response and how you can get involved – EMAIL MP
A word to the porn industry: your day in the sun is over
Open Letter to the PM: Keep Kids Off Porn
Watch Now Mansions of the Future: A Lasting Legacy
Peer Support
Parliament debates current toothless inquiry to be a full Statutory Public Inquiry 31 January 2023
ESSEX FAMILIES – SUPPORT FROM PARLIAMENT GROWS FOR A STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY
Professor Simon Baron-Cohen declares support for Statutory Public Inquiry in to Essex MH Services
Essex mental health patient deaths probe calls backed by professor
Amy + Dannielle + Lauren + Shaun
NHS mental health services set to face full public inquiry to force staff to give evidence
Failure to 'appropriately assess' girl, 17, contributed to her suicide, coroner says - PETITION
LEADING MENTAL HEALTH CHARITY SANE JOINS CALL FOR STATUTORY PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO ESSEX MH
Essex Mental Health Inquiry: Chair renews push for legal powers decision
Edwige Nsilu: Inquest opens into death of young woman at mental health unit in Basildon, Essex
Essex mental health staff fell asleep on duty, inspection found
Reasons to be hopeful: It's Notwestminster weekend 💚
Transforming communities for inclusion
According to gov.uk at least 30% of prisoners have learning difficulties and/or disabilities
Fully recovered from an eating disorder
breath circle – every Wednesday – 9.30 pm
Free workshops and small grants for activists
Peer support is about social change
"I don't go down there to talk to someone or to give them advice
I go down there to listen, to have a conversation."
Chris Masters
Academy of Peer-supported Open Dialogue
Friends, Families and Travellers
we're going to the Supreme Court
Community catalysts CIC – update
Women's Aid launch Expect Respect Prevention Toolkit
“We are here for survivors”
The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac)
0808 801 0331
Mad COVID – free yoga – Sundays
The truth about mental health inequality
Working in partnership: creating an effective rough sleeper strategy
New approaches to supporting young men's mental health
Behind closed doors How to make safe, compassionate inpatient care a reality
No health without housing: why supported housing is at the heart of integrated mental health care
Social needs among people living with mental health difficulties
Big ideas for dismantling mental health inequalities
Mental health, nature and gardens: expanding the narrative
How local councils can support better mental health for all
Finding ways to end the toxic impacts of poverty: our first Festival of Ideas event
How can local councils know if their mental health services are working well?
Championing trans and non-binary people's mental health
Mental health and the climate crisis
Building a mentally healthier nation
A constant battle: exploring the intergenerational consequences of racism in the UK
It's a constant battle that knocks you
idea of golden triangle of influence
Data
Lived experience
practice
journeying with grief - it looks different for us all
Seniors
Good homes for all: a proposal to fix England's housing
has found that one in six older renters have less than £100 disposable income a month after their rent
That’s just not enough to live on, and leaving many stressed and anxious about how they’ll pay for the essentials
52% of older people on a low household income were unaware of broadband social tariffs before taking the survey
September 2023
Information on ways to boost your income
a beautiful video with some familiar faces
Affordable, good-quality homes for everyone 🏠
You can get support and advice from:
Domestic Abuse helpline: 0808 2000 247 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week). You can also visit their website where there’s a live chat and online messaging service, if you don’t feel able to call or email.
Adult Social Services at your local council.
Your GP or other NHS health providers.
Hourglass helpline: 0808 808 8141 (9am-5pm, Monday-Friday) Hourglass are an organisation dedicated to ending harm and abuse to older people.
The Police: you can call the local Police on the 101 non-emergency number, or call 999 immediately in an emergency. If you are unable to speak when the operator answers, cough or tap your phone, and if prompted, press 55. This lets the operator know if you’re in an abusive household and need the Police but fear being heard.
Age UK Advice Line: 0800 169 65 65 (8am-7pm, 7 days a week) Or you can contact us online here.
The Silver Line: 0800 4 70 80 90 (24 hours a day, 7 days a week) The Silver Line is a confidential helpline for older people
It’s not 100% on you to make sure you’re safe online
Does your story sound like mine?
Age UK – RICHMOND runs FREE IT courses +
Democracy
labour party to lead by pluralism + inclusivity not control + exclusion – PETITION
Our report reveals that even if Labour can win,
voters now have little faith that our political system can address the big challenges of our time:
🌡️51% say the system is unable to address the critical issue of climate transition
📈 50% don’t think the system can fix inflation and avoid economic turmoil
🌍 63% don’t believe it can help us find a better approach to immigration
🚨 63% say our politics is failing on wealth inequality
🏘️ 64% believe the system isn’t able to cope with the housing crisis.
But it’s even worse than that:
🤑 73% of voters believe the political system mostly serves the rich and the powerful
❌ 71% say it doesn’t work for ordinary people
🤲 63% say it puts too much power in the hands of a small number of swing voters
⌛ 64% see the system as too short-term
💂 67% judge it as far too London centric
➗ 64% think the system cannot bring people together and unite the country
Endless opposition or a Progressive Alliance
All great political movements are born in exile
As ever, we are the people we have been waiting for
All You Need to Know about a Progressive Alliance
Politics needs to change so we can change our society – to make it much more equal, sustainable and democratic
We are convinced that can only happen if parties of the left and centre start to work together, or at the very least stop fighting one another
After the Market Capitalism and Social Democracy in the 2020s
From a post-pandemic reorientation around care to an embrace of citizens’ assemblies, the future is surely a shift from top-down directives to a plural politics that harnesses the bottom-up power of community
Labour must embrace new power and a new democracy
The Green Route to Alliance-based Power
minority report: preparing for multi-party government
Poll shows majority of Labour voters want to Only Stand to Win
Tell our leaders: to deepen democracy, we need to get it together
Treating causes not symptoms: Basic Income as a public health measure
our choice – chaos or cooperation – PETITION
We have to do better than this - PETITION
Old power v. New Power ? People before profit ? - Wendy
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Call for a new left party – SIGN OPEN LETTER
the government decided to go with the strictest ID rules every time
Voter ID is a ‘gerrymandering scheme’ suggests Jacob Rees-Mogg
First Past the Post in mayoral elections means less choice and a weaker voice
Majority oppose resignation honours
Northern Ireland’s local elections show the benefit of the Single Transferable Vote
End the male super-majority in the House of Lords - PETITION
How did Denmark get proportional representation?
How do Finland’s elections work +
The political reforms that were lacking from the King’s Speech
do you agree : the out of date way MPs are elected to Westminster is failing voters – PETITION
over 115,635 signatures – why is no one listening ? - Wendy
How honourable are honours lists?
Including Welsh government progressive electoral reforms
Street stall
25 November
10.30 – 12.30
Wimbledon
Wimbledon Piazza
SW19 1RF
Open space principles:
Whoever comes are the right people
Whenever it starts is the right time
When it’s over, it’s over
Whatever happens it is the only thing that could happen
Trust for London – Tackling poverty + inequality
CEO pay survey 2022: CEO pay surges 39%
Tax Haven Money in London Real Estate
Racial justice fund launches soon + Disability & deprivation
including cannabis legalisation
New Living Wage Rates + Black History Month
Housing - Gender identity & deprivation – Pay inequality
pay inequality in London – LBRUT tops the chart + Kingston comes 3rd – Wandsworth is not doing well either -
this is a bad thing + needs to be sorted ! How could we sort it ? Universal basic income ?
Wendy
Millions of Londoners below minimum income standard
including open letter on temporary housing + other amazing stuff – including peer research - Wendy
anti-violence work in the West Midlands
Partnership work with the NHS will harness lived experience
Almost 13 million adults now struggling to pay bills, debt charity warns
What does HSBC and BlackRock have in common? - EMAIL MP
There are now 8.5 million people heavily in debt
That’s 1 in 6 of us
So far little has been done and the pressure, including on people's mental health, can be unbearable
One person told us that ‘Debt has social, emotional and mental side effects, the like of which are a silent venom.’
Together against debt – The people’s manifesto
debt + colonialism + resistance - 8 – 17 November
Debt justice is climate justice
People of the global South have been rendered vulnerable to climate change because of poverty
Discrimination and precarious living conditions are intensified under this ever-rising debt problem
The global financial system is extractivist in essence –
[characterised by] the extraction of human and natural resources for the relentless pursuit of profit and the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels..."
Mae Buenaventura, Asian People's Movement on Debt and Development
Drop Debt Save Lives – PETITION
Medical Cannabis access on the NHS – Alfie and I need your help – PETITION
Despite Some Progress on Legalization, the War on Cannabis Is Not Over
Call off the attack on UK democracy – LETTER
A message of support for Ukraine – ADD YOUR NAME
Reforming the House of Lords – HAVE YOUR SAY
Limit MPs' 2nd jobs – PETITION
2% of voters - PETITION ABOUT VOTER ID
Dealing with HMRC is a famously laborious experience but they’re very aware that while members of the public might not like paying taxes, most of them tend to play by the rules.
Sadly, we can’t say the same about our universal credit system.
The Public Interest Law Centre recently pointed to an example of a client who had been asked for a “photo of you next to your street sign with your right hand holding it” and a “photo of you holding your local newspaper for the area you live (not a national tabloid paper).
This should be dated the same day as you upload the photo.”
Councils have spent nearly £700,000 paying internet bills for staff working from home since 2019
information obtained using Freedom of information act ? - Wendy
Council tax rises – interactive chart
In 20 years LBRUT council tax has risen by nearly 49.18%
In 20 years Hounslow council tax has risen by nearly 37.71%
Civil servants have received £400,000 in bonuses last year
Whitehall offices empty as civil servants work from home
Daily mail reports that council staff can work up to 4 days a week at home
Raising the question do local authorities need so much costly real estate
Hospital estate spending - £220 million could be saved
Rail union bosses take home £500,000 in pay and perks
DfT splurges thousands on away days
£4 billion worth of PPE procured by the government during the pandemic could end up being burnt
Public sector pension liabilities hit £2 trillion
NHS 'blows' millions on PRIVATE care while 'patients face record waiting lists'
Time to sell council offices
An investigation by The Times found that more than 90 per cent of council staff are still working from home in some local authorities.
This rightly raised concerns about whether taxpayers are getting bang for their buck, as they continue to foot the bill for empty desks in deserted town halls
after 5 years + £5.5 billion of Taxpayers cash the army’s Ajax tank procurement program has yet to produce a singe working tank
£265, 007 was spent on booze in taxpayer subsidised parliamentary bars + canteens in a single year
between April 2021 and the end of March
local council luxury limos – 2,689,959 pounds
London borough Richmond upon Thames spent 12,389 pounds
this is a waste of public money ? - Wendy
Public sector hiring spree sees a workforce bigger than Tesco join since September 2018
English taxpayers foot bill for Welsh government ‘ghost offices’
£44, 000 to create calming sea creatures
Council Spaffs £33,000 on Corgi Statues, Sells Them for Just £2,000
MP medal madness + a cash sum of up to £162,000
PETITION : stop council tax rises
We’ve shown time and time again that there’s room for savings in town hall budgets
From the
£15 million spent on unpopular artwork
to
at one council
to
there’s plenty of waste in local government
That’s not to mention the nearly
3,000 council employees receiving over £100,000!
Council tax freeze in Scotland
NHS has spent £4million paying property taxes for EMPTY buildings in last three years
Information obtained using Freedom of information act - Wendy
cost of sending the children of diplomats to some of the country’s top private schools
costly consultants - £16 million on consultants + temporary staff
Ministry of Defence logging £806 million in annual losses
Outrage as taxpayer-funded jobs for civil servants surge by more than 100,000
Public sector ‘pensions aristocracy’ to get pay rise three times the average
Personal freedom going up in smoke?
As households across the country face record council tax hikes and a cost of living crisis
our latest Town Hall Rich List has revealed that 2,759 council bosses received more than £100,000 in total remuneration in 2021-22
We're calling on local authorities to offer value for money and stop council tax hikes!
High salaries in London Borough Richmond upon Thames + Hounslow + Kingston upon Thames - people assemblies ? – participatory budgeting ? – community land trusts ? - power to the people ? - Wendy
Force energy companies to put people before profit – PETITION
McDonald’s has a sexual harassment problem – PETITION
Stop the Next Pandemic, McDonald's – PETITION
Public Sexual Harassment – EMAIL MP
Environment
An inspiring journey into the repair community
Will 2023 be the year of community-led repair?
Why a working vacuum cleaner means a broken system
Our factory of the future turns one year old!
The joy (and power) of repairing together 🛠🥳
author of wasteland
Help us ban the destruction of perfectly functioning electronics!
ENVI Member of the EU Parliament of choice
Right to Repair for smartphones
Webinar: Financial incentives for repair: from national success stories to a European framework
Anna + Sandrine + Biljana + Malte + Sara + Sean + Franck
Centre for alternative technology
they have monthly online meetings
Greens win majority control of council for first time in UK
There is no climate justice without racial justice
Creating resilient communities is vital to develop economies that work for people and planet
why collaboration is important in politics to enact radical change
We launched a petition calling for tax incentives to favour retrofitting homes over new builds
Find alternatives to traditional consumerism
Collaboration Over Competition in Politics
Wales -The Future Generations Act
Weaving together regeneration and social justice for generations to come.
Because everything is a Green issue.
They have the ‘world’s first commissioner of the unborn’, responsible for delivering social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being for current and future generations.
How does it work
How do we measure impact on the future
Are mindsets changing in Wales
Is the act creating the systems change it set out to achieve
Why do we need an act for future generations
And what can England and beyond learn from Wales, as the Future Generations Bill is brought to Parliament
The awful policing bill – EMAIL MP
Scottish Greens pledge new deal for renters
Intersectionality in the Green movement
petition calling for a Wellbeing Economy
What is education for, and who pays
Universal Basic Income is a key part of Green Party policy
Natalie Bennett wrote about why we need a complete system change to save the planet
The Green Party warned that the government's pledge to resettle Afghan refugees is 'empty pr'
A bill to protect our planet – PETITION
Britain is still:
⚠️Talking about a new coal mine in Cumbria
⚠️Considering a new oil field off Shetland
⚠️Foreseeing a £27bn road building programme
⚠️Planning airport expansions
Overcharged Londoners paid £25 billion too much rent
Ensure Trans people are fully protected under any conversion therapy ban – PETITION
Don’t test UK cosmetics on animals - PETITION
Build back better – Green Jobs for All – sign the petition now
Do you think bankers need a pay rise
Polluters are making billions. So what next?
The home office is ruining lives – I had to do something
PETITION – tell Labour leaders – no more austerity
climate reparations now – PETITION
We oppose the illegal immigration bill – PETITION
What’s the urgency? - Stephen Fry
People vs Oil!
18 November 12:00 / 13:00
London Eye
Jubilee Gardens
17 November – embodied relational community
16 November – 6pm – 19.15 – end advertising green-washing
meet 17:45 Orange street / whitcomb Street
Methane Emissions From Dairy and Meat
The outcome of the People’s Assembly for Nature
rooted in the values, ideas and experiences of people from all corners of the UK
will be The People's Plan for Nature which will make recommendations for governments (local and national)
food and farming businesses, non-governmental organisations
communities, and individuals
Extinction Rebellion Demands
XR’s three core demands remain the same:
Tell the Truth
Act Now
Decide Together
We are also demanding a citizen-led democracy to end the fossil fuel era and a fair society that includes reparation
Don’t Obey A System That Is Killing You
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
The mainstream media blackout around the Bill makes it all the more urgent that we all get behind this campaign now.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they legislate against you…
25 October & weekly
is offering a weekly listening circle
Around the world in eight Citizen Assemblies
A deeper dive into citizens' assemblies that have happened around the world
We recommend this for people with a basic understanding of Cas
You can also read more about Citizens' Assemblies here
Every WEDS 19:00-20:15
How to Deliver XR Welcome Sessions
THURS 10 Feb, 10:00-11:30 and future Thursdays
MON 14 Feb, 18:00-19:30 and future Mondays
Animal Rebellion v McDonalds
Should the public be better informed about the connection between animal farming and the climate and ecological emergency
The meat industry clearly doesn’t think so – just like Big Oil, Big Meat spends millions to crush good climate policy
And no doubt, they’d also prefer us to be unaware that meat production leads to thousands of air quality related deaths every year + an EAT Lancet report found that, in order to feed a population of 10 billion within planetary boundaries, we need to slash meat consumption by 90%. Animal agriculture causes 80% of Amazon deforestation and McDonalds is content to source products from illegally deforested areas
So, watch this 22-min documentary that explains why and how Animal Rebellion is demanding that McDonalds transitions to plant-based food within 4 years
To add to the nudge, sign this petition
world’s first Global Citizens’ Assembly
Send PCSC Bill Holiday Cards to the House of Lords
Let’s wish them a happy New Year and thanks in advance for protecting the future of UK democracy …
by voting against the Bill Everything needed is here
2-mins watch
TUES 11:30-12:30
FRIs 15:00-16:00
XR Song Carriers invite you to sing – no lyrics or experience needed
Everyone is welcome at these weekly sessions and particularly anyone interested in becoming a song carrier
Every WEDS, 15:00-16:30
These gatherings are for CEE Bill campaigners who want to share information, ideas and experiences about campaign activities at the grassroots level or ask questions of the CEE Bill Team
Help stop the Jackdaw gas field
Sign the open letter to stop the new Cambo oil field
The UK has given £4 billion to big polluters since the Paris Agreement
BREAKING: We’re going to Court on Dec 8th
£14 billion for the oil and gas industry
Three big things that happened in court ⚖️
The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill
Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill – PETITION
Empathy Cafe: our feelings and the future
Share the petition & help prevent a tidal wave of plastic pollution
The Momentum is Building: Global Plastics Treaty – PETITION
The Reusable Cups Helping Concerts, Festivals and Sports Events Reduce Waste
making reuse a reality – explainer
How Coke Killed the Refillable Bottle
The Story of Stuff Project - Nestlé's Troubled Waters
New Nestlé Owners, Same Old Game – PETITION
This community does not buy anything
50 ways to save money on your energy bills
Make companies accountable for harm to people and the environment – PETITION
Councils – pension fund + fossil fuel
NEW: Majority of UK believes polluters should pay, not us
The Great Big Green Week has begun! 🥳
Blue Carbon, Adaptation in Scotland, Heat & Buildings, Oil & Gas
CCC 2022 Progress Report to Parliament
Letter to new PM, Citizens’ panel on home energy decarbonisation report and more
Energy efficiency, carbon offsetting, supply chains and more
The right to Land is a human right!
Expose Israel’s trade in repression
defend the right to protest – EMAIL MP
Beyond extraction, towards justice
Say NO to the anti-Boycott Bill
Fashioning the future for people and planet
Colombian communities vs. corporate courts – PETITION
Are we inferior? Should people die like this ?
Our rights are not negotiable ! - Wendy
East Africa - It's the 11th hour – EMAIL MP
People who are demanding change in 2023
Record temperatures – and record profits for polluters
Belita + Teodora + Govinda
The Prime Minster needs to hear from you
Our voice is louder with the support of others
We must pull together for Afghanistan’s children
DEMAND G7 LEADERS STEP UP TO FIGHT GLOBAL HUNGER
Tell us how you want to change the world – SURVEY
Colgate-Palmolive: Stop Destroying Rainforests, Before It’s Too Late – PETITION
The Truth About Britain’s Allotment Waiting List
Tree planting season is around the corner
I do not want any more planes over London
Frequent flyers are being rewarded for pointless pollution
Guess who is driving the dirtiest cars ?
Badvertising: polluting our minds and fuelling climate chaos
Why community energy is so important – EMAIL MP
Watch: The Power of Persistence
system change not climate change
The four-day work week is coming: Here's what it could mean for you
Iceland leading the way? - Wendy
Citizen Science Month is here!
🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
Let's tackle racism in food and farming
Will Rishi put hungry children first
Food Poverty: Nothing about us without us is for us
Food Poverty: Tracking Council Action on Food in London
Over 100 busloads of toxic poo are produced by factory farms in the UK every single hour – ACTION
LGBTQ+ inclusion in the food movement
Luton launches new policy to restrict unhealthy food advertising
Take action for children’s health – EMAIL MP
Factory farms are destroying our wildlife. The solution? Our local councils
Families miss out on £68 million in Healthy Start support
Roots to Work - Big Livestock Versus the Planet
Get paid to help save the planet
Campaign for preservation of rural England (CPRE)
We join 250 organisations in signing an open letter against the Policing Bill. Here’s why
The government’s bottling it – PETITION
Deposit return: a quick update
Ministers ‘to ditch overhaul of planning laws’ after criticism
New research shows space for 1.3m homes on recycled land is being ignored
we can learn so much form its rhythms – self care inspired by the seasons
Coal: the final push – PETITION
Why the government needs to make sure net zero is in local plans
250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development
More solutions to this? Not monocultures? Common land? Right to build? Self build? Community land trust? More allotments?
- Wendy-
Urge the government to put brownfield first – PETITION
The hidden homelessness crisis
Using rooftops for solar - moronic and absolute nonsense?
As much energy as 10 new nuclear power stations – PETITION
QUIZ – do you know the true power of rooftop solar?
Coal Action Network – Adani coal mine – ACTION
Five million people will die this year due to fossil fuels globally, only 40,000 of those in the UK
Coal in Steel: problems and solutions
Is HSBC about to rule out Adani
Lloyd's insurers asking them to rule out the Trans Mountain Pipeline
Take action: Colombian communities' coal-mine blockade
do not finance the East Africa crude oil pipeline
Take action: Colombian communities' coal-mine blockade
legal action against UK's biggest illegal coal mine
Don't gamble public money on gas - PETITION
Suella Braverman: Don’t ditch key Windrush commitments - PETITION
AVAAZ – petition for cheap public transport to help combat climate change
as per Spain + Germany
Close to a million people world wide have signed this - Wendy
6 kids vs 33 governments - PETITION
block Boris Johnson’s honours list – PETITION
Is pay-as-you-drive the future
Please act now: clean air for London
The way forward is public transport
call for affordable public transport – EMAIL MP
A celebrity video and a new competition
Speak up for bus lanes – EMAIL MP
Travelcard success! But, fares need reform
Including cut on tax for domestic flights which will lose £130 M in lost revenue in a year ? - Wendy
SCRAP THE TORY TRANSPORT TAX: SIGN THE PETITION
End War + Global Justice
The dirtiest plastic on earth – PETITION
Nestlé is bullying an entire town – PETITION
Email your MP: protect the right to protest
URGENT: Amazon needs you – PETITION
Tesco’s deforestation scandal – PETITION
Dark side of social media – SEND A MESSAGE
Stop Putin's disinformation machine – PETITION
meta – google- tiktok – stop promoting election disinformation – PETITION
the butchers of Myanmar – PETITION
No one puts their child in a boat unless the water is safer than the land
Home demolition is Al-Walajah – EMAIL MP
Take action to mark 17 years of BDS
#JusticeForShireen: Condemn the Killing but Hold the Killers Accountable Too
Calling on the UN General Assembly to investigate Israel’s crime against humanity of apartheid
Add your name: Urge President Biden to keep his promise to close Guantánamo prison.
Citizenship for all – PETITION
Palestine Solidarity Campaign – Stop KKL-JNF's Land Grab – EMAIL MP
A message from Benjamin Zephaniah…
#NoFairPlay in apartheid Israel – WRITE
Death of Khader Adnan - write to the Foreign Office
We NEED your help fighting the anti-boycott law
Palestinian Digital Rights Violations in War: Silencing Voices, Disinformation, and Incitement
Hateful Network: 9 out of 10 Palestinians were subjected to hate speech on social media platforms
Have you faced censorship or hate speech on social media?
Divest for justice for Palestine – ACTION
Israel spied on Palestinian human rights defenders with NSO Pegasus software
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Israeli Minister of Interior to Officially Revoke Permanent Residency of HRD Salah Hammouri
Israel's Failed Attempt to Criminalize and Discredit Palestinian Civil Society – ACTION
The Attacks on Palestinian Digital Rights
1 in 5 Palestinian civil society organizations are not on social media
Human Rights Watch agrees – it's apartheid
Stop ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem – WRITE TO YOUR MP
What does the online space for children and youth in Jerusalem look like
This Land Day tell CAF & PUMA to end support for Israel’s illegal land grabs
Keen to do more for a fairer world
We shouldn’t leave anyone behind
No one should die of tuberculosis - PETITION
Where does poverty really come from?
Stop fashion brands undermining garment workers' rights
A trade deal with India needs to be different – ADD YOUR NAME
Join our action for a vaccine patent waiver
UN-believable: rich countries still well short on climate finance – PETITION
Fossil fuel companies demanding $18bn through corporate courts
Fossil fuel companies are using the Energy Charter Treaty and other corporate courts to demand $18bn from governments over climate action.
There’s a real threat that they will succeed in suing governments into a state of climate paralysis
We know the danger, but we also know it is a system that thrives on secrecy.
When people learn about what is going on, they are up in arms and the system is indefensible.
Big banks profiting during the pandemic
lifting the curse – land justice
do not let corporate courts block climate change action – PETITION
Energy Charter Treaty – EMAIL MP
Big pharma’s £12bn NHS rip-off
BP’s profits must pay for climate damage
Why is aid money being spent on private hospitals? - ACTION
Stop big pharma’s £2.5 billion NHS grab!
1 in 3 people globally don’t have access to safe drinking water
2 in 5 people don’t have access to soap and water for handwashing
2 billion people are without toilets and latrines
Mercy Corps
Tell your MP: Fund farmers fighting climate change
Join our friends in Australia to stop a coal mega-mine
URGENT: Stop UK aid cuts to Yemen
Serco shareholders will pocket MILLIONS from this crisis
Public ownership of rail now – EMAIL
Join the fight for better buses today
Council leaders, call on Matt Hancock to Scrap Serco – EMAIL
3 weeks to win better buses for West Yorkshire
Do you want Virgin making decisions on your health
Stop the Corporate Takeover Bill: ask your MP to take the pledge
The government just made a BIG concession on the NHS Bill – EMAIL MP
The results are in: it’s time to end bus privatisation – EMAIL MP
Ed Miliband talked about the Green New Deal
committing to “a green Britain where public and alternative models of ownership play their proper role in making the transition affordable, secure and fair.”
The sleaze scandal gives you massive leverage – EMAIL MP
Sign the petition to demand the Lords protect our NHS
Stop the privatisation of vaccine development – PETITION
Bring energy into public ownership now - PETITION
Stop the privatisation of vaccine development – PETITION
4 ways public ownership could cut your energy bill
private health companies – EMAIL
Privatisation is driving the cost of living crisis
'Red Wall' voters overwhelmingly back nationalised energy and rail, poll finds
Let's celebrate our NHS's 74th birthday together
buy a public bus company for West Yorkshire – EMAIL
Let's make it SIX railway lines in public ownership🚆
💩 Stop the sewage: sign to end water privatisation NOW!
Campaign against the arms trade (CAAT)
Solidarity With Yemen Campaign
Syria – arms sales to dictators , displacement + militarised borders
Arms sales back on trial - PLEASE SHARE
New data published today by think tank SIPRI reveals that UK military spending increased by almost 3% in 2020, making the UK the 5th biggest military spender in the world.
Over next 4 years £24bn for the climate vs £188bn for the military
Tell your MP to support the new Israel Arms Trade (Prohibition) Bill
Justice for Yemen: tell the International Criminal Court to prosecute
Tanks Out of Twickenham and a Secret Court Case
Tell Keep Scotland Beautiful's CEO to end its partnership with BAE Systems
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
☮️ The truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Keep Space for Peace Week
Did you know that by 2030, the space industry will be worth over $1 trillion
Much of that is driven by the militarisation of space and Britain is at the forefront
East Anglia on the nuclear front line: US nukes to return to Britain
We need to stop the irresponsible behaviour of nuclear states
Going to see Oppenheimer? Know the facts about nuclear weapons!
Trade unions must step up for peace
☢️ More proof US nukes are returning to Britain!
Ceasefire now: CND response to attacks on Gaza
Keep Up Pressure on Saudi Arms Sales
The British Government is Isolated in its Support for the War on Yemen. We Must Force a U-Turn
Stop the War Condemns Biden’s Airstrikes on Syria
Lobby to end British support for the war on Yemen: Request a meeting with your MP
Ukraine: Peace Now #PeaceForUkraine – PETITION
The Tip of an Iceberg – SAS Death Squads Exposed Panorama Review
The Killing of Ayman al Zawahiri Will Not “Make Us Safer”
Peace Must Be The Priority For Ukraine
Lies that cost lives – PETITION
demand justice for victims of chemical attacks – PETITION
Syrian women deliver a message to the Assad regime
Searching for truth after ISIS
Take action: Syria’s death camp
Victory for Syria’s disappeared
Syria – LEST WE FORGET – EMAIL MP
Stop deportations to Rwanda – ACTION
Appeal from teachers: Protect Syrian children
Ask your MP to mark the 10th anniversary of the Syrian revolution
Syria -Demand urgent action from the UN to respond to the crisis in Idlib
Sign our petition and ask that everyone can live and love without fear in Italy.
Every child's right – PETITION
In Tibet: Taking Blood – ACTION
Urgent Action: Tibetan Children Forced Into Colonial Boarding Schools
Where is the Panchen Lama – ADD YOUR MESSAGE
Act Now: 1 Million Tibetan Children Separated From Their Families
10th March 1959
Thousands of Tibetans from all walks of life rose up in revolt against China’s invasion and occupation of their country
The protests were followed by a brutal crackdown across Tibet, claiming tens of thousands of lives.
Every 10th March exiled Tibetan communities, Tibet groups, and supporters come together on streets around the world to remember the bravery and strength of Tibetans, and to keep alive the resistance
Campaign Win: UK Government Department Ban Hikvision Cameras
Urgent Action: 800,000 Tibetan Children Need Your Voice
Take Action: Stop China's War on Buddhism
Act Now: 1.2 Million Tibetans Targeted in Mass DNA Collection
Free Lhundrub Drakpa - PETITION
Ban the import of cotton from the Xinjiang region – PETITION
Shocking human rights abuses – SEND A MESSAGE TO ZARA
demand better from NYT – PETITION
Tell Meta: Let Palestine Speak
Khalil Awawdeh has been on hunger strike for nearly half a year
Mohandas Gandhi also was on hunger strike at Yerwada Jail in 1932
Tell Biden: We’re done with U.S. support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing and apartheid
Five principles for dismantling antisemitism
Do not isolate antisemitism from other forms of oppression
Challenge political ideologies that promote racism, hate, and fear
Create environments that affirm and celebrate all expressions of cultural and religious life
Make undoing all forms of racism and bigotry both policy and daily practice
Practice safety through solidarity, not law enforcement
Stop Jerusalem Expulsions and Save Sheikh Jarrah – PETITION
New York Times: Tell the truth
Google worker defending Palestinian rights publicly resigns
live fire from the Israeli army in Masafer Yatta
Liege, Belgium, Cuts Ties with Israel
Groundbreaking NY law aims to halt funding to Israeli settlements
Israel attacks, and Jenin endures
I was held by police at the pride parade for holding up the Palestinian flag
Shahar + Einat + Evyatar + Nave
Send the four refusers a letter of support
Help amplify the refusers' voice
Persecution of Jewish and Arab peace activists by Israeli government is getting worse
What did the Palestinian Digital Space look like in 2020
World without Walls – Europe petition
No Israeli killer drones for the EU
URGENT: Angela Davis silenced by Butler University – PETITION
Action Alert: Stop Israeli home demolition and persecution of human rights defenders
Palestine: a people's steadfastness against ethnic cleansing
Nakba @74: More expulsions demand more struggle and solidarity to #EndEthnicCleansing
#DefendOurSchools and homes from Israeli apartheid
Maasai: An urgent call for help – SiGN NOW
Aboriginal flag banned from Parliament - PETITION
Five Aboriginal people have died in custody since March – PETITION
Mega fracker: it's worse than we thought
I didn't come from overseas
I came from here.
My language, in spite of whiteness trying to penetrate into my brain by assimilationists —
I am alive,
I am here and now
and I speak my language.
I practise my cultural essence of me.
Don't try and suppress me and don't call me a problem
I am not the problem
I have never left my country nor have I ceded any part of it.
Nobody has entered into a treaty or talked to me about who I am.
I am Arrernte Alyawarre female elder from this country.
Please remember that
Housing crisis in First Nations communities
Australia, we have a big coal problem
The cost : whistleblowers in Australia
The biggest marketing con since big tobacco
Please lodge a submission Beetaloo fracking
Mining giants have money, but we have a movement
Unite with Traditional Owners against fracking – PETITION
Australia - How people are getting rich from your unemployment
Michael West has blown the lid on Australia's secretive billionaires
9 new pharmaceutical billionaires while 300,000 die – PETITION
It’s ‘Freedom Day,’ but not for everyone – PETITION
Our voting rights are under attack
More alternative information sources
Black British Voices: A chance to get your voice heard
‘iPhones are made in hell’: 3 months inside China’s iPhone city
Unmasking Andrew Tate's War Room 'Brothers' + Solving WWII Photo Mysteries
Russia's Ghost Ships Smuggling Grain + A Mysterious Photo of the First Solar Panels
Geolocating Russia’s Disgraced General Surovikin + Measuring Objects in Open Source Material
Crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh and US neo-Nazi’s Ukraine Claims Exposed
In Saudi's mass murder of Ethiopian migrants, seeing is believing
4chan's Dalliance with DALLE-3 and Videos of Suspected Ukrainian Rifleman in Sudan
Lake Alice Psychiatric hospital
Can anyone defend this ?
Yet ECT is still done worldwide + in the UK – please see website for further details
Why do people turn a “blind” eye + say they can do nothing ?
Does that makes them complicit in the crime?
Wendy
The Bureau of investigative Journalism
Welsh Inclusive Journalism Network
The Sunshine Millionaire: How one man took £130m from British taxpayers
Britain’s evicted kids : dispatches
🕵️ Private spies: trained by the British state, working for autocracies
The strawberries you eat are picked by exploited workers
Amazon under fire for worker surveillance practices
Behind TikTok’s boom: A legion of traumatised, $10-a-day content moderators
What the hell are influence ops – and are they manipulating you? 👀
Del Monte security guards accused of brutal killings
Israel-Gaza disinformation is flooding social media
You're fired? Lord Sugar tries to dodge £186m tax bill
Only 11 rich Brits prosecuted for tax offences
Survivors of domestic abuse re-traumatised by justice system
Killing the journalist won’t kill the story
story in honour of Bruno + Dom
Backroom deals - mystery companies and a ‘killer lake’
Use Freedom of information act to get relevant information
The Bureau of investigative Journalism
are happy to help people with FOI requests
International Planned Parenthood Federation
We're recruiting: anti-capitalist researcher with a finance background
Murderous border policies, Big Oil profits and more
Tackling Canada’s opioid crisis
Including giving land back in Canada - Wendy
including land rights in East Africa
Who caused the inflation crisis
including Zambia
Palestine: The time to act is now
Has Israel pushed its allies too far?
Boris Johnson was able to rise because of powerful anti-democratic forces
The other 9/11: how to make a nation scream
The oligarch that took over Britain
Former British Soldier EXPOSES King Charles
Gary Younge on Race, Racism & Identity
Megaphone – Sick pay is key to containing the spread of the virus – PETITION
Have you heard the news
Mayor Andy Burnham has just announced he’s taking Greater Manchester’s buses back into public control
Can you get our West Yorkshire bus petition to 10k by asking a friend to sign
Introduce a Right to Disconnect for all UK workers
Grossly irresponsible – PETITION
Support cleaners organising for £10 an hour – PETITION
End fire and rehire for good – WRITE MP
Save London’s public transport – PETITION
Stand with striking scaffolders – PETITION
Tell your MP: Don’t derail our public transport
Churchill pay your cleaners a fair wage – PETITION
Anti-strike bill: Make your voice heard – SEND A LETTER
The housing crisis can’t be solved by listening to those who deny we have a shortage of houses
Local councils to spend more than £3.8 million on coronation events
Andy Burnham urges Labour to adopt proportional representation
PMQs: Rishi Sunak tries to massage damning rough sleeping figures
Boris Johnson trousered £21,800 per hour as MPs second job earnings disclosed
Britain’s tax system is rigged in favour of the rich
Boris Johnson roasted for making taxpayers pay £250,000 bill for his Partygate legal fees
Andy Burnham backs proportional representation
Jacob Rees-Mogg admits voter ID law was about ‘gerrymandering’ rather than tackling electoral fraud
Here's why unchecked corporate profiteering is the real reason for high inflation
Exclusive polling on what the public want nationalised
The four day week: Ending a century of economic ‘maladjustment’
Europe's lurch to the far-right, and its influence on UK Conservatives
Average rent £815 per month – 15% higher than 2021 average £708
The mayor tweeted:
“This is a disgrace
Rents are soaring while landlords profit
I’ve repeatedly asked the Govt to let me freeze rents, saving Londoners £2,988 over two years
“With the cost of living crisis raging, this is more urgent than ever. The Govt must act.”
Andy Burnham to introduce bus fare caps a year earlier to ease cost of living crisis
£2 a journey + £5 a day cap from September
Andy Burnham calls for an end to current whips system to give MPs more freedom
Tory donor Peter Cruddas warns he will withdraw support unless Tory’s change their rules
Less confrontational, more diverse and more nuanced politics: Caroline Russell on PR in London
Women’s rights next on the list of government’s so called ‘war on woke’
Prem Sikka: Some of the wealthiest Brits are calling for socialist policies
The $63.2 trillion shadow banking industry is likely to be site of the next financial crash
Tory leadership contender Suella Braverman slammed for demonising the poor
Diane Abbott MP: This must be the time for a major change in housing policy
Lib Dem Conference: Activists force party to keep commitment to national housebuilding targets
Our media isn't diverse
It’s the second most socially exclusive profession in the country
94% of people working in journalism are white
Less than 1 in 20 journalists come from Muslim backgrounds
Only 1 in 50 are black
Do rules not apply to billionaires either
Our housing market is broken: let’s put first homes first, second homes second
Cannabis, ketamine and speed to be decriminalised in London by Sadiq Khan
Rishi Sunak + wife is worth £730 million
A culture of 'rank misogyny' in Westminster
A neat division between the online world and the offline world is a false dichotomy
What happens online on social media platforms seeps from the web and has direct consequences for people and communities offline
As someone who has grown up in and lives in Luton, I’ve witnessed first-hand how false, inaccurate and sensationalist claims on social media empowered far-right groups like Britain First and Tommy Robinson to march through my home town
It was a relief for many knowing that far-right groups who spewed hatred and misinformation online would no longer be able to spread their poison on social media after tougher action by companies
However, upon the news that billionaire Elon Musk has reached a deal to buy Twitter, republican politicians such as Marjorie Taylor Greene who was banned from the platform for spreading fake news about COVID – 19 and groups such as Britain First are delighted at the news Musk will be in charge – read more here
Angela Rayner says Mail on Sunday article not just sexist but also ‘steeped in classism’
Tories take control of Electoral Commission in dark day for democracy
Misogyny and the objectification of women is so deeply ingrained in our society
Time for a universal basic income
Universal Basic Income trialled in England for first time
The right-wing takeover of Britain’s media
Khan sets out plan to provide universal free primary school meals next year
London Renter Left Homeless After Black Mould Complaints Go Unanswered for Years
Largest four-day working week trial shows it has been a huge success for businesses and workers
Norwegian oil and gas giant Equinor has now reported £62bn in profit for 2022
Equinor is state owned ? - Wendy
Tory MP filmed offering to lobby for gambling industry investors for up to £4,000 a month
‘Scourge of corporate profiteering’ must be stopped to tackle inflation
We the 174,183 demand allotments
Millionaire Mohamed Amersi has claimed that through a combination of membership fees to Conservative party co-chairman Ben Elliot’s company + donations to the party, he has met Prince Charles + been invited to dine with ministers.
He has referred to the set up as “access capitalism”
Logical thinking, curiosity, evidence-based decision making and fresh perspectives are all benefits brought by neurodiversity
Not About the Bad Apples: Exploring Crime Prevention Through Community and Wellbeing - 16 November
How universal basic income’s impact on people’s finances could transform the nation’s health
We gave $7,500 to people experiencing homelessness — here’s what happened next
Medical gaslighting: when conditions turn out not to be ‘all in the mind’
Narcissism, immorality and lack of empathy: the dark psychology that can poison elites
THE 2023 FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE - 21 October - 17 November
Vegan diet has just 30% of the environmental impact of a high-meat diet, major study finds
How community gardening could ease your climate concerns
People who grow their own fruit and veg waste less food and eat more healthily, says research
Homelessness in England has reached record levels – here’s why, and how to fix it
A drink each day or just on the weekends? Here’s why alcohol-free days are important
Three ways to get your nature fix without a garden
Slavery stole Africans’ ideas as well as their bodies: reparations should reflect this
Social media algorithms warp how people learn from each other, research shows
France used 10% less electricity last winter – three valuable lessons in fighting climate change
How oil and gas company tax reliefs could lose the UK billions
Western sanctions haven’t curbed Russian oil profits, but the green energy transition could
It could cost the taxpayer £169,000 to deport each migrant to Rwanda – and possibly even more
Home ownership is shrinking, private renting isn’t working – what’s next?
Private equity: when big profits come at a heavy price for human rights
Renters reform bill: protections for renters are overshadowed by new powers for landlords
Why you’re less likely to get rich these days if your parents aren’t already wealthy
time for community land trusts ? - Wendy
Antipsychotics are increasingly being prescribed to children – here’s why we should be concerned
How preventive healthcare could save the NHS – lessons from Finland, Japan and Singapore
Or us ? Or New local ? - Wendy
Billions is spent on cancer research globally – but is it money well spent?
Scotland’s legal go-ahead for safer drug consumption rooms is a gamechanger
Casey review: how different is the Met police from the UK’s other forces?
Thirsty tomatoes emit ultrasonic sounds – and other plants may be listening
Indian women’s struggle against sexual violence has had little support from the men in power
The whole “welfare” system is belittling + horrible ? Hostile environment ? Universal basic income now ? - Wendy
House in a skip: even tiny homes can’t address the privilege and insecurity of the housing market
Stop War in Sudan and Bring Peace Now - PETITION
The importance of solitude – why time on your own can sometimes be good for you
Why three-day weekends are great for wellbeing – and the economy
Does British tourism really need the royal family?
African leaders in Sierra Leone played a key role in ending the transatlantic slave trade
Jacinda Ardern: the ‘politics of kindness’ is a lasting legacy
Prince Harry is wrong: unconscious bias is not different to racism
Peru riots: unrest in southern Andes lays bare an urgent need to decolonise
Levelling up: how UK freeports risk harbouring international crime
Seychelles is becoming overwhelmed by marine plastic – we now know where it comes from
Perovskite: new type of solar technology paves the way for abundant, cheap and printable cells
New ‘healing’ prison in Ireland points to long history of progressive penal reform
Let’s protect nature, but not merely for the sake of humans
Future of Welsh rugby at stake after misogyny allegations
Data bombing and dead cats – how PR uses practices of secrecy to influence media and society
Dirty gold: the fly-tipping gangs costing councils millions – and how you can help
The Home Office is sabotaging its own plan to tackle the asylum backlog
Builders are making thumping profits by over-charging for new homes – new findings
Reporting Ukraine 90 years ago: the Welsh journalist who uncovered Stalin’s genocide
We now have a treaty governing the high seas. Can it protect the Wild West of the oceans?
The rise and rise of property guardianship and what it says about our broken housing system
Plastic recycling is failing – here’s how the world must respond
How cats and dogs affect the climate – and what you can do about it
The environmental pawprint of pets is huge – and it’s mostly down to what we feed them
Dog attacks on adults are rising – but science shows blaming breeds won’t help
‘A toxic policy with little returns’ – lessons for the UK-Rwanda deal from Australia and the US
How the private rental sector created a homelessness crisis in Ireland and England
Why economic growth alone will not make British society fairer or more equal
Humza Yousaf: Scotland gets a Muslim leader in a moment of extraordinary change for British politics
Uganda’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law could lead to death penalty for same-sex ‘offences’
Animal consciousness: why it’s time to rethink our human-centred approach
Sudan’s conflict has its roots in three decades of elites fighting over oil and energy
How a UK hydrogen car industry could cut fuel costs and carbon emissions
In the Ukraine Conflict, Fake Fact-Checks Are Being Used to Spread Disinformation
What Private Equity Firms Are and How They Operate
How to Outsmart Election Disinformation
churches are breaking the law by endorsing in elections – the IRS looks the other way
How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
How to “Follow the Money” in a Political Campaign
The global threat of rogue diplomacy
A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them
Congress Passes Bill to Rein in Conflicts of Interest for Consultants Such as McKinsey
Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire
New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars
These Documents Reveal Abuses and Breakdowns in Rogue System of Global Diplomacy
94 Women Allege a Utah Doctor Sexually Assaulted Them. Here’s Why a Judge Threw Out Their Case
A Christian health non-profit saddled thousands with debt as it built a family empire
New Mexico Has Lost Track of Juveniles Locked Up for Life. We Found Nearly Two Dozen
Investigating how the rich are getting richer
Parental Alienation: A Disputed Theory With Big Implications
Ruling Confirms Trump Used Fraud to Hype Property Values
Media
Undercover Hospital : patients at risk
Socialism Is Gaining Popularity, Poll Shows
Socialism = no war + no hierarchy + need not profit
Capitalism = war + hierarchy + profit not need
-Wendy-
Making Legal Abortion Accessible in India
Indian Government Backs Prosecution of Author Arundhati Roy
8 Women File Lawsuit After Being Refused Abortions in Medical Emergencies
Reclaiming Safe Abortion Access in Haiti
Naga Munchetty: I was failed and gaslit by NHS despite debilitating periods
How I Broke Free From Relationship Hierarchies
What Capitalism Has to Do With Falling in Love
One blunt heckler has revealed just how much the UK economy is failing us
Another fine mess / Clearing up the dog poo problem
Why 30 Minutes of Nature a Day Is So Good for Your Health
Making Intentional Friendships
Boris Johnson's government spends nearly £1bn on advertising
Met police strip-searched 650 children in two-year period
Met rammed boy, 13, playing with water pistol off bike and pointed guns at him
Met authorised baton rounds only for black-led events, FOI reveals
Metropolitan police ‘Size of a small police force’ are suspended or on restricted duties
To Transform Work, Start With Schools
Capitalism teaches us that we are worthy only when we’re productive
It pushes us to “rise and grind,” to monetize our lives as much as humanly possible
But we all deserve better
We deserve to rest, complete in the knowledge that we are worthy simply for being alive
We deserve to have our basic needs met, without sacrificing our health and well-being
China / Treatment of Uyghurs may be crime against humanity, says UN human rights chief
For a Healthier Society, Ditch the Myth of Normal
The Links Between Your Mental Health and Everyone Else’s
We Need a World Without Borders on Our Increasingly Warming Planet
GPs to prescribe walking and cycling in bid to ease burden on NHS
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
Duchy of Cornwall estate worth £1bn passes to Prince William
You Know What Else is Contagious Good Health
Police watchdog launches homicide investigation into Met shooting of Chris Kaba
Capitalism Fuels Disease, Trauma and Addiction. How Can We Heal
Windfarm windfall set to spark debate about funding of UK monarchy
1 Person Dies of Hunger Every 4 Seconds
The police killing of Chris Kaba
Police accused of widely misusing body-worn video in England and Wales
Freedom of information requests used to obtain data– Wendy
A Global Plastics Treaty Must Target Plastic Production to Fight Climate Change
Children as young as nine say they are ill from work recycling plastic in Turkey
What happens next in Turkey’s elections?
Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police
What is fuelling today’s culture wars
Twelve arrested at protests after death of Mahsa Amini in Iran
Eight report of human rights abuse within Mental Health wards – Edenfield + Essex + Huntercombe +
then there is Winterbourne + Whorlton Hall
please listen to us – Wendy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001ckxr/panorama-undercover-hospital-patients-at-risk
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hospital-undercover-are-they-safe-dispatches
https://news.sky.com/video/the-huntercombe-group-a-mental-health-scandal-12731576
Problem linked to local councils + housing? - Wendy
Including Norman Lamb mentioning Human rights abuse in MH system
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/locked-away-our-autism-scandal-dispatches
Institutions Often Treat Disability and Mental Health Not With Care But Violence
UK’s richest people avoid social housing rules in £1.2bn London flats project
how the assassination of Shinzo Abe became a political scandal in Japan
600 Million Metric Tons of Plastic May Fill Oceans by 2036 If We Don't Act Now
We the People Are All in This Together
The Collaborations That Create Change
Molly Russell: how a teenager’s death put social media on trial
The suicide of Emily Drouet: ‘She was used and made to feel like nothing’
Can being thinner make women richer?
The UK government is about to make some disabled benefits claimants even poorer
The "Problem" Isn't Disabled Bodies -- It's the Violent Structure of Our Society
Palestinian Hunger Strikers Are Facing Harsh Retaliation Inside Israeli Prisons
Park Chan-wook: ‘We must accept we have an illness in our society’
Secret footage reveals abuse of woman with dementia at luxury UK care home
20 Years After Iraq War Vote, U.S. Continues to Flout International Law
sack sexist + racist officers – Met police report rules
Huge failings kept hundreds of corrupt officers in the force, admits Met chief
BAE Systems in middle of dogfight between Saudis and Biden over oil
Activists Across the Country Are Making the Right to Housing a Reality
Reversing the Damage of Cannabis Criminalization
Unraveling the Root Causes of Violence in Israel and Palestine
Reparations for the War on Drugs
The Fight for Housing Justice in Los Angeles
Can We Build a People-Centered Economy?
Labour’s plan to insulate more homes ‘would create 4m job opportunities’
Jeremy Hunt’s economic plan turns the clock back to austerity
now is the time for a well being economy?- Wendy
Intersectional Activism in a Post-Roe World
Like copying a Louis Vuitton handbag’: big pharma hits out at Africa’s replica Covid vaccine
Most people on antidepressants don’t need them - Time to wean them off
An Indigenous Perspective on Reconnecting With the Land
‘Insulting’: shock as NHS uses offensive term for people with learning disability
bullshit jobs: the rise of pointless work + what we can do about it
The Blackstone rebellion: how one country took on the world’s biggest commercial landlord – podcast
‘A treasure beneath our feet’ How the Dutch went down the toilet looking for heat
Asset Management Firms Are Gaining Power Over Housing, Hospitals, Water and More
Private rents in Britain hit record highs, with 20% rise in some areas
time for community land trusts ? - Wendy
Ransomware hunters: the self-taught tech geniuses fighting cybercrime – podcast
How the Korean Concept of “Han” Teaches Solidarity
When Witnessing Becomes Activism
millions of people should pay less for broadband – says which
why do low income people always pay more for everything ? - Wendy
Operation Soteria: a new approach to investigating rape
When Reparations Grow From the Grassroots
Reforms could raise £37bn for UK public services, campaigners say
Two-thirds of cattle farms in north Devon cause river pollution
TikTok in danger of being major vector of election misinformation
Reclaiming Abundance Under Capitalism
Perpetrator of Tadamon massacre still working on military base
UK police use of live facial recognition unlawful and unethical, report finds
Growing Community in Vacant Chicago Lots
How men with guns aggravate global hunger
Why do cocaine traffickers like Belgium
probe into the Saint George educational trust extreme right wing links
National Trust members to vote on banning ‘divisive’ and ‘woke’ Pride celebrations
Costa Rica – how finance can slow deforestation
Wales to set up publicly-owned green energy firm
The arrest of Andrew Tate: the ‘king of toxic masculinity’
‘To his followers, this man is a messiah!’ Matt Shea on his long fight to expose Andrew Tate
How Russell Brand maintains his income and influence
‘There are dozens of Russell Brands’: female comedians say abuse is rife
"Assisted" Outpatient Commitment Advocates Manufacture Consent Via Manipulation
Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
Schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming’
Most people on antidepressants don’t need them
Report Reveals US Lied About Afghan Civilians Killed in 2021 Drone Strike
Ableism Is the Driving Force Behind All Forms of Incarceration, Says Abolitionist Talila Lewis
Chris Nota's mum keeps on campaign after teen's bridge death
America’s culture wars extend into medicine
NHS / Trusts tell patients they can go private and jump hospital queues
Atom Valley: Andy Burnham’s vision for regenerating Greater Manchester
The Unsung Caribbean Roots of the Vegan Food Movement
Government avoids questions on whether it will ditch Windrush reforms
House Republicans Just Made It Easier for Congress to Give Away Public Lands
Palestinian Journalism Faces Ruthless Censorship in Israel and U.S
Yemen / 87 civilians killed by UK and US weapons in just over a year
How community crofting experiment could help repopulate the Highlands
including community housing
Minister refuses to rule out changes to UK online safety bill
Surrey dog attack: woman killed believed to have been walking a number of dogs
What’s behind the rise in dog attacks?
Call to end forced installation of UK prepayment meters after millions suffer without power
The age of the grandparent has arrived
America’s far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
BIPOC Women Artists Find Collective Power
Essex mental health deaths review demands legal powers
Jailed for life for stealing $14
Resident-Owned Communities Are a Step Toward Housing and Climate Justice
The single penalty: why it costs £860 a month to be alone
Owner of UK care home group paid himself £21m despite safety concerns
Police to get powers to shut down protests before disruption begins
Mouldy flats and bidding wars: how did the UK rental crisis get so bad
Call for new taxes on super-rich after 1% pocket two-thirds of all new wealth
Priced-out UK house-hunters turn to lorry-sized tiny homes
Will the UK’s strict new voter ID laws damage democracy?
Over a Hundred Thousand Israelis March to Protest Netanyahu Government
Elite Metropolitan police officer David Carrick revealed as serial rapist
Liz Truss Jenga-style podium cost taxpayers £4,175
U.S. Corporations Are Complicit in the Repression of Uyghurs
Apartheid protesters’ convictions quashed in London after 51 years
Prosecute tech chiefs who endanger children, says Molly Russell’s father
‘Slap in the face’: Tory seats gain more from £4bn levelling up fund
Jacinda Ardern / Political figures believe abuse and threats contributed to PM’s resignation
Rishi Sunak criticised after third domestic RAF jet flight in 10 days
Poverty in UK could increase death rates during or after pregnancy, warns WHO
Fifth of LGBTQ+ people in UK subjected to conversion practices
Six lifestyle choices to slow memory decline named in 10-year study
Department of Health wasted £15bn on unused Covid supplies, watchdog finds
Tory chair faces questions over source of £30m unsecured loans to wife’s property company
Gulf royals own more than £1bn of UK property via tax havens
Britain’s newest islets are made of wet wipes
Overcoming Colonial Thinking to Connect With Life
child migrants racially abused and threatened with violence at Home Office hotel
The Deep Roots of the Racial Wealth Gap—and How We Undo It
Pornography / One in 10 children ‘have watched by time they are nine’
Pornography driving UK teens towards child abuse material, say experts
How Putin’s chef became the second-most powerful man in Russia
The scammers forced to steal people’s life savings – podcast
The children going missing from Home Office hotels
Plastic bottle deposit return scheme finally looks set to start in England
New $5 banknote will feature Indigenous history instead of King Charles
Watchdog looks into £220,000 public funding for Partygate defence
UK for sale / Almost 13,000 offshore companies with UK property fail to declare owners
"They filmed me without my consent’ / The ugly side of #kindness videos
U.S. Spends Most on Health Care of Rich Countries But Has Worst Life Expectancy
Study reveals links between UK air pollution and mental ill-health
Calls for bigger windfall tax after Shell makes ‘obscene’ $40bn profit
Shell announced £7.7 billion in profits
How Russia dodges oil sanctions on an industrial scale
Former Russian soldier reveals he saw Ukrainian prisoners of war tortured
US man cleaning out late grandmother’s apartment shot dead by police
Think yourself better: 10 rules of philosophy to live by
Embracing Financial Protections for Abuse Survivors
A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News
Celebrate Black Storytellers This Month
Anti-Abortion Laws Were Written to Confuse the Public -- and They're Working
Revealed: how world’s biggest fossil fuel firms ‘profited in Myanmar after coup’
How British Gas debt agents break into homes of vulnerable
"Honour’ killing of YouTube star sparks outrage
Tesco chicken supplier should pay to clean up River Wye, says charity
Children punched and hit over the head in care homes rated ‘good’
Guatemalan Tribunal Bars Leftist Presidential Ticket From Ballot
Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth and a More Just Society
Berlin's Pledge to Socialize a Quarter Million Apartments Faces Obstruction
Sanders, Warren Condemn GOP's "Disgusting" Move to Silence Ilhan Omar
Police-Perpetrated Killings Are Public Executions -- We Must Abolish Them
Our World Is Fragmented by Inequality. Why Is There Poverty Amid Plenty?
We Already Know Who's Winning Super Bowl LVII -- the Billionaire Class
Censored feminist movement finds solace in Sally Rooney
10 Black Women Innovators and the Awesome Things They Brought Us
For a Just Transition, Recruit More Women Electricians
Shortage of UK foresters prompts government to offer free courses
Black and Unapologetic in Nature
Consultants run private firms charging to cut waiting lists at their own hospitals
Patients in England not collecting NHS prescriptions because of cost
Labour condemns ‘catalogue of waste’ on government ‘credit cards’
How to Be an Antiracist: A Conversation With Ibram X. Kendi
The hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections
The software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles
‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigeria election, emails reveal
British Gas owner expected to reveal record profits of £3bn
Broadcaster BFMTV suspends presenter amid disinformation scandal
June Jordan’s Legacy of Solidarity and Love Remains Relevant
A Historic Ordinance Could Ban Caste Discrimination
After silencing critics at home, Narendra Modi goes after foreign media
How the young could save Nigeria
Defending Democracy Through Elections Won't Be Enough to Stop Fascism
Tory vice-chair Lee Anderson faces libel claim over bribery allegations
Health ombudsman issues unprecedented warning over safety and culture at scandal-hit NHS trust
NHS England chair fixed meeting for client of bank he advised
Could Alzheimer’s be caused by an infection?
How Black Classical Musicians Are Creating Community
Calls for radical reform of gun laws after shooting
The new tactics of Britain’s far right
Bernie Sanders Says It's Time for a 4-Day Workweek, With No Pay Cuts
The secret world of disinformation for hire
There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research
The human cost of electric vehicle battery production
UK risks falling behind Europe in controlling ‘forever chemicals’
Value of UK housing stock hit record £8.7tn in 2022
New York’s new drug problem: what to do with a billion dollar weed mountain?
BP Boss could be in line for special bonus of up to £11.4m
For Black Women, Self-Care Is a Political Act
The Gift of Ecological Humility
Seven healthy habits may help cut dementia risk, study says
Stunning Rupert Murdoch deposition leaves Fox News in a world of trouble
The number of people sleeping rough shows a sickness at the heart of our society
Liverpool becomes first UK city to commit to Paris climate agreement
What do Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages show? Not what the Telegraph wants us to see
A 4-Day Work Week Bill Is Being Reintroduced in the House as Idea Gains Speed
Groups Tell UN Experts That Overturning of Roe Violates International Law
Historian urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right
How bust payments company Wirecard ‘hired spies and lawyers to silence critics’
TikTok App ‘acting too slow’ to tackle self-harm and eating disorder content
Campaigners call for end to ‘peak fare rip off’ on trains in England and Wales
Commodity Speculators Reap Record-Shattering Profits Amid Global Hunger Crisis
Young black boys almost THREE times more likely to enter youth justice system
Children in mental health crisis spent more than 900,000 hours in A&E in England
This International Women's Day, Iranian Feminists Are at the Front Lines
How Ancient Grains Empower Indian Women
Vandana Shiva: Reciprocal Care Will Give Us a Future
We Need Collective Healing, Not Commodified "Self-Care"
Fossil fuels received £20bn more UK support than renewables since 2015
A Blueprint for Decolonization in Berlin
The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
Black remand prisoners held 70% longer than white counterparts in England and Wales
‘That was Lang Lang!’: ‘greatest living pianist’ gigs on St Pancras concourse
Experts praising new ‘skinny jab’ received payments from maker
More than 1,500 UK police officers accused of violence against women in six months
Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, study suggests
The wife of ‘Sir Stanley’ couldn’t tolerate his abuse and nor should the rest of us
It’s OK to be Angry about Capitalism review: Bernie Sanders, by the book
Will UK’s online safety bill protect children from adult material?
We Must Abolish Nuclear Weapons Before They Abolish Us
China-Led Iran-Saudi Arabia Diplomatic Deal Shows Alternative to US Hegemony
Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia
For Climate Solutions, Listen to Indigenous Women
We Must Recognize That the Eviction Crisis Is Also a Public Health Crisis
10 Black Women Innovators and the Awesome Things They Brought Us
Pregnant Black Woman Wrongly Arrested in Detroit Using Facial Recognition
Frontrunners in SNP leadership race vow to eradicate poverty
What do you really see when you visit hand carwashes in Britain? Exploited workers and criminality
I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health
are women really more mentally ill than men? As a psychologist , I’m not so sure
Electroconvulsive therapy mostly used on women and older people, says study
Abortion UK: Women 'manipulated' in crisis pregnancy advice centres
Protest laws ‘put UK on a par with El Salvador’
The Feminist Magic of the Older Witch
The Shape-Shifting Power of Menopause
Dogs and cats could be passing on drug-resistant bugs to owners, study finds
‘Skinny jab’ drug firm facing fresh inquiries after ‘serious breaches’ of industry code
Less medication not more for elderly – Chris Whitty
Inside the Underground Network Fighting for Asylum Seekers in Scotland
We Need to Talk About Gun Manufacturers
An Activity Book for the Anti-Racist
Braverman accused of ‘dangerous’ complacency in tackling police failings
MEPs condemn Suella Braverman over arrest of French publisher
Suella Braverman accused of fresh ministerial code breaches over undisclosed links to Rwanda
I saw the UK through the eyes of my French in-laws - and it was deeply embarrassing
Boy, 15, ‘handcuffed’ by civilian security staff at shop in Chichester
Dalai Lama apologises after kissing boy and asking him to ‘suck my tongue’
The Women Who Welcomed Immigrants
MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality
Over 170 ex-ministers and officials take jobs linked to old policy briefs since 2017
Rishi Sunak saved £300,000 in tax thanks to cut he voted for in 2016
PM publishes long-awaited personal tax details
A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During Mental Health Crisis
The machine that runs Britain’s state needs an overhaul
Gary Younge on how Britain buried its history of slavery
Why are British teenagers being locked up in ‘re-education camps’?
Rishi Sunak’s childcare policy risks conflict of interest with wife’s firm
Sunak took £500,000 worth of private jet trips in less than a fortnight
Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery
Slavery and the Guardian: the ties that bind us
Britons who do not pave over garden could receive water bill discount, Ofwat says
£3.5m of Tory donations linked to pollution and climate denial, says report
8 Must-Reads by Women Who Take on White Supremacy and Patriarchal Power
"Woman, Life, Freedom": Syrian Women Are Rising Up Against Patriarchy
Amid New Banking Crisis, It's Time to Change the Rules of the Game
Maker of Wegovy ‘skinny jab’ is funding NHS weight-loss services
Portrait series honours Black radicals
Livid London MP slams ministers for ‘abandoning’ five British children hiding from Taliban in Kabul
Men dominate 95% of local authorities in Britain, data shows
Government suspends relationship with CBI amid Guardian allegations
Firm fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s data
Greens launch local elections campaign with pledge to push for rent controls
Veterans Push Back Against Military Recruitment in Schools
Four Insights for Radical Organizing From the Mysterious World of Mushrooms
Indigenous Women Remain Unroken
Afghan Women Use Art to Resist the Taliban
The Power of Humor in Indigenous Activism
The Power of Black Imagination
Making Legal Abortion Accessible in India
The Blood Behind Britain’s Bling
CNN's Town Hall Didn't Hold Trump Accountable -- It Normalized His Lies
Trump Earned $82 Million From Properties in Scotland and Ireland While President
Reimagining Safety and Liberation Without Police
MPs condemn failure to tackle ‘glaring’ racial inequalities in UK maternal health
The cost of the global arms race
Defence spending in western and central Europe tops last year of cold war
Including table showing the money spent an weapons - Wendy
Why civil wars are lasting longer
Royals took more than £1bn income from controversial estates
How the British royal family hides its wealth from public scrutiny
India archive reveals extent of items extracted from colony in royal jewellery collection
The British monarchy’s ties to slavery are writ large in the historical archives
UK cannot ignore calls for slavery reparations, says leading UN judge
King Charles’s private luxury car fleet worth an estimated £6.3m
King Charles’s private fortune estimated at £1.8bn
British public support for monarchy at historic low, poll reveals
Cost of the crown part 1: valuing the royal family
King Charles urged to intervene over ‘insulting’ child sexual abuse payments
King Charles and Prince William face fight over taxpayer funds on Dartmoor
King Charles to receive huge pay rise from UK taxpayers
British TV ‘allowed monarchy to censor coverage of king’s coronation’
Caribbean nations set to demand royal family makes reparations for slave trade
Head of UK’s leading anti-monarchy group arrested at coronation protest
Belize likely to become republic, says PM as he criticises Rishi Sunak
Anti-monarchists receive ‘intimidatory’ Home Office letter on new protest laws
Police accused over use of facial recognition at King Charles’s coronation
Senior Tory MP was paid £2,000 a month by lobbying firm
Chilean President Announces Plan to Slowly Nationalize Lithium Industry
Too many people take too many pills
The West Is Drowning the Global South in Debt
Psychiatric Incarceration Isn't Treatment -- It's Violence, Survivors Say
How oligarchs use English courts to silence their critics
Trafficked: the trap – part one
Trafficked: the closed door – part two
Second woman claims she was raped by colleagues while working at CBI
Female firefighters in Kent made to strip to underwear in front of male colleagues, union says
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner?
Oh no, it happened again: a famous woman didn’t follow the rules of ageing
Warnings over NHS data privacy after ‘stalker’ doctor shares woman’s records
Scottish parliament patient safety commissioner bill
Inquiry into major UK maternity scandal slams NHS for failure to consult Black and Asian families
Mental health services that fail to improve could shut , says watchdog
MPs say poor transport to mental health services causing crisis in rural England
not just rural – people have raised these concerns about the Springfield site – Wendy
Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?
Gambling Firm allegedly paid blogs to link new mothers to its online games
Owner funded ‘dishonest’ lobbying against gambling reforms
Young people are wising up to the Great British student rip-off – and they’re voting with their feet
Graduate tax? Martin Lewis: ‘We must stop calling it a student loan’
UK arms sales reach record £8.5bn as global tensions escalate
US banker paid £73m dividend in 2021 after firm won millions in UK Covid contracts
Conspiracy theories and chaos: a week watching GB News
This report indicates that GB news is there to influence government ? - Wendy
‘It’s just not worth it’: why full-time work no longer pays in the UK
time for a 3 day week + well being economy ? - Wendy
From Farmworkers to Land Healers
How Regenerative Farming Heals the Soil
Are smartphones to blame for girls’ rising suicide rates?
How the Women of Standing Rock Inspired the World
Sunak’s secret meetings about the Lords — and why he thinks it needs reform
UK government poised to block Scottish bottle recycling scheme
Let's Accept Climate Science — And Also Reimagine Our Relationship to the Earth
Food producers and retailers lobby to delay UK household recycling reforms
Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
Held v Montana: the young people fighting for the climate in court
In Major First, Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youth Suing Over Climate Crisis
UK households missing out on £19bn a year in unclaimed welfare benefits
£150,000 levelling up grant awarded to Tory donor’s amusement centre in Hastings
NHS scheme will allow school leavers to train as doctors without traditional medical degree
‘Little evidence’ whether or not most antidepressants work for chronic pain
Cost of living: Health of London's poorest hit hardest
UK government wins right to take back control of military homes worth £8bn
19 suspects identified in hospital opioid deaths inquiry
Mental health hospitals are ‘making children worse’, leading charity warns
Met police to stop attending emergency mental health calls
Met police dealing with at least one dangerous dog a day, figures show
The Trans Joy Missing From Media Coverage and Legislation
First Randomized Clinical Trial Confirms Benefits of Gender-Affirming Care
Methodist Church apologises for abuse spanning decades
Why Public Art Is Good for Cities
Universal basic income of £1,600 a month to be trialled in two places in England
How well does your country provide for its citizens?
The Pursuit of Rest Under Capitalism
The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography
The Trans History You Weren’t Taught in Schools
The Radical Power of Storytelling
Nectar Nomad in the Land of Enchantment
Europe's War Against Refugees Is Fueling the Far Right's Ascension
The psychological immune system: four ways to bolster yours – and have a happier, calmer life
Lung cancer symptoms: what to look out for
UK provided £3m to Turkish border forces to stop migrants, FOI reveals
MPs paid £10m for second jobs and freelance work in past year
HMRC investigating tax affairs of one of Tory party’s largest donors
Deprivation causes extra 33,000 UK cancer cases each year, analysis finds
Voters Don't Have a Voice in Governance. Citizen Assemblies Could Be the Answer
If the Police Can Decide Who Qualifies as a Journalist, There Is No Free Press
Hollywood Finally Starts Skewering White Wealth
Food as Embodiment and Connection
How New York Socialists Won Big on Climate
How Young Climate Activists Are Confronting Power
The Norwegian secret: how friluftsliv boosts health and happiness
friluftsliv = communing with nature
How to Build Solidarity Across Difference
The Collaborations That Create Change
The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
Envisioning a New World Through Abolition Geography
Fruit, wildflowers, insects: the people transforming disused land in England
Social Movements and NGOs: Can They Get Along?
UK charity foundation to abolish itself and give away £130m
Community-Powered Solar in Puerto Rico
Italy’s Model for Renewable Energy Communities
Indigenous Women March for Their Rights in Brazil
For Climate Solutions, Listen to Indigenous Women
NYC Nannies Built an Underground Care Economy That Should Inspire US Policy
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Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds
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London Ulez: court dismisses challenge by five councils over expansion
Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?
Why we are all living in a Barbie world
Social media Government targeting minorities with ads despite Facebook ban
Calls for safe routes for refugees mount after six more Channel drownings
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London police defy ban on badges linked to far right and white supremacy
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The rise of antisemitism in the UK
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How a killing on the New York subway exposed a broken system
It is a problem in the UK too ? Possible solution ? Housing First at scale ? - Wendy
"I’m just trying to go home’: Tyre Nichols heard pleading in released video
people are restrained on Mental Health wards in the UK 1000’s of times a year
each number is a person like Tyre - please see our data below – Wendy
Mental Health Bill must tackle ‘unacceptable’ racial inequalities, MPs and peers warn
England’s ambulance crews spend 1.8m hours a year on mental health callouts
Lucy Letby: Police urged to investigate hospital bosses for corporate manslaughter
AI better than biopsy at assessing some cancers, study finds
More babies face harm unless NHS ends ‘defensive leadership’
not just babies ? - 1000 of people face harm on Mental Health wards each day worldwide ? - Wendy
Norfolk and Suffolk mental health campaigners want inquiry over data
Ministers order ‘rapid review’ into mental health inpatient care in England
Will the person doing the review have unconscious bias ? As per the Mental Health act review ? - Wendy
Is the UK housing market heading for a crash
Recent average price property in UK - £295000
9 times average salary
£500000 in London
Falling house prices may seem like a good thing – but it’s renters who are paying the price
Thousands of homeless people arrested under archaic Vagrancy Act
No more home makeovers! The horror show of renting in Britain finally comes to TV
How poor housing costs the NHS £1.4bn a year
Evicted review – no room is worth the extortionate rent these young people are being charged
About 700,000 UK households missed rent or mortgage payment last month
Average monthly rents hit £2,500 in London and £1,190 for rest of UK
More than 1,300 people died while homeless in UK during 2022
Renters’ reform must close loopholes for unfair evictions, campaigners say
One in three Conservative voters think ministers failing on housing
UK mortgage lending hits record low in sign of housing market stress
City centres: from offices to family homes
Record numbers seeking help with no-fault evictions
Gove’s department hands back £1.9bn meant to tackle England’s housing crisis
Private rents outside London rise by a third in four years
UK rents rise faster in deprived areas – and drag more people into poverty
If Rent Is Out of Control, Time to Control Rent
Centering People in a New Economy
England worst place in developed world to find a home, says report
Councils in England paying £1.7bn a year to house people in temporary homes
RENTING - Supply shortages and mortgage rate rises push UK costs to highest point ever
Housing -Living in privately rented homes linked to faster biological ageing, study finds
‘I’m very fortunate’: meet the Londoner who lives among billionaires for £200 a week
That is still a high rent for many people – Wendy
University students ‘have 50p a week to live on after rent’
Councils in England facing bankruptcy as lack of homes pushes up cost
Homelessness crisis looms as most renters one pay cheque away from potential eviction
Community land trusts NOW !
Why should people rent ?
- Wendy -
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Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures – 2020-21
Mental Health Act Statistics, Annual Figures – 2021 – 22
CQC ratings of NHS mental health trusts 2021
CQC ratings of NHS mental health trusts 2022
NHS England mental health trusts record 26,000 sexual abuse incidents
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2022 data – to see the full data set click on the Trust’s name below |
ECT |
Restraints |
Seclusion |
Serious incidents |
Meds.errors |
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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership |
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health |
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24 people 282 sessions |
913 |
167 |
67 |
69 |
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Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
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Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
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20 people 169 sessions |
961 |
168 |
9 |
290 |
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Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust |
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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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461 treatments |
932 |
41 |
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1079 |
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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust |
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Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust |
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Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
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Not provided |
979 |
641 |
76 |
1164 |
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Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust |
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East London NHS Foundation Trust |
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636 “treatments” |
2365 |
229 |
125 |
801 |
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Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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30 people |
1242 |
This trust does not seclude people |
120 |
795 |
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Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust |
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365 people |
1120 |
208 |
198 |
791 |
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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust |
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23 |
3481 |
270 |
11 |
717 |
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62 people |
1808 |
214 |
93 |
804 |
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Data not provided |
1711 |
121 |
47 |
Data not provided |
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17 people |
5477 |
837 |
394 |
2661 |
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53 people 409 treatments |
2266 |
71 |
311 |
1249 |
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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust |
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North East London NHS Foundation Trust |
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28 people |
1005 |
12 ? |
91 |
434 |
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15 people |
960 |
294 |
27 |
923 |
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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
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Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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24 people |
1022 |
37 |
43 |
2 |
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Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust |
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Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust |
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Solent NHS Trust |
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44 people |
2548 |
410 |
779 |
659 |
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17 people |
1492 |
261 |
95 |
437 |
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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust |
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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust |
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3 |
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Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust |
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32 people |
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91 |
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