By the NHS Confederation and the National Mental Health Development Unit
Report on Personal Health Budgets – Service Users’ and Carers’ Views
August 28, 2011
Mind in Flux
I live in the UK and I have a collection of mental health related labels. I've been out of work for 3 years, after some time in retail management.
This site is an attempt to keep on top of the many changes happening to welfare and services, and how they are affecting people with disabilities and mental health problems.
I also blether about other things that may or may not be of interest to you.
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Its a Cloud
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Benefits Information - ESA/WCA
- Detailed guide to ESA
- DWP IB Reassessment Q+As for Healthcare Professionals.
- Incapacity benefits – the reassessment process – DWP
- Incapacity Benefits Migration to ESA info – Disability Alliance
- Proposed Changes to Contribution Based ESA – Q+As
- Reassessment of incapacity benefits An introduction for Stakeholders – DWP
- Reassessment of incapacity benefits Customer factsheet – DWP
- Reassessment of incapacity benefits: FAQs – DWP
- WCA (ESA) Mental Health descriptors.
- Work Capability Assessment Internal Review, DWP. March 2010.
Benefits Information - General
Benefits Reform Campaigns
Government Reports and Press Releases - Benefits
- 21st Century Welfare (Universal Credit)
- An Independent Review of the Work Capability Assessment
- Consultation on DLA Reform
- DWP Business Plan/Timetable
- DWP Consultation on ESA and Work Related Activities. Have your say.
- DWP official review of ESA Work Capability Assessment. July 2010.
- DWP Press Release – Benefit Fraud Oct10
- DWP Report on ESA and the Work Capability Assessment – Statistics
- ESA Press Release OCT10
- ESA: WCA BY HEALTH CONDITION AND FUNCTIONAL IMPAIRMENT: Official Statistics OCT 2010
- Universal Credit: welfare that works.
Government Reports and Press Releases - Other
- CQC Report on the Mental Health Act. Oct10.
- Dept Health Consultation on the NHS
- DWP Press Release Oct10 – New employment programme for disabled people is launched
- Life Opportunities Survey Interim Report
- Office for Disability Issues – Right to Control
- Roadmap to Disability Equality
- Spending Review 2010 – Complete Report
- The Office for Disability Issues – HM Government
- Well enough to work Customer Transitions Customer Insight findings report
Guest Posts
Blogs - Carers
Blogs - Disability
- A Hermit's Musings from his hovel
- Benefit Scrounging Scum
- Chaos and More Chaos
- Confessions of an Immigrant on Benefits
- Crippen
- Diary of a Benefit Scrounger
- Disability Bitch
- Disability Xpert
- Forward – Feminists with Disabilities
- Incurable Hippie
- Life on Wheels – One man's journey on the path to revolution…
- Lil Watcher Girl
- Lisy Babe
- Same Difference
- Shoutaboutit's Blog
- Splott Dad Rants
- The Broken of Britain
Blogs - Mental Health
- Anxious Kaley
- Bipolarity and Brushing Your Teeth
- Blood in the Sand
- Future Notes
- Holistic Schizophrenia
- It's Just a Ride
- Magic Plum
- Mental Nurse
- Mentally Diverse.
- Pandora
- Purple Noise
- Relating Outcomes to Lived Experience
- the normality of madness
- The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
- This Compassionate Life
Mental Health & Disability Info
- Able Magazine
- Battle Scarred – Channel 4. Armed Forces and Mental Health
- Disability Alliance
- Disability Now
- Mad Pride Ireland
- MDF – Manic Depression Fellowship
- Mind
- One In Four
- Radar – The Disability Network
- Recovery Stories of coping with mental health problems (video)
- Rethink
- Richmond Fellowship
- SAMH – The Scottish Association for Mental Health
- See Me Scotland
- Shaw Trust
- Shift – Tackling Stigma
- Time To Change
- UK Disabled People's Council
Other Grooviness
Recommended Articles
- Benefits Cuts – Your Stories. BBC.
- Benefits Health Tests Unjust Say Charities – Blog
- Benefits Test Unjust Say Charities – Guardian.
- Breaking the Circle: Racism and Mental Health
- Care services minister outlines revised mental health strategy
- Cheer up love, it might never happen.
- Colin Cameron – further towards an Affirmative Model of Disability
- Councils to deny social care support to all but most needy
- Daily Mail goes after the disabled
- Dark Times for Those That Cannot Work – Disability Alliance
- DARK TIMES FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT WORK: No Competence, No Compassion in Incapacity Benefits Reform
- Disability Changes Could See 1 million Lose Out
- Disability in the UK 2010
- Disability: We can all do better. Naomi Jacobs.
- ESA – A new harsher test.
- Frances Kelly – Work, disability and real change
- Funny ha ha: The Comedy of Mental Health Issues
- George Osborne's secret plan to slash sickness benefits
- Govan Law Centre – Chancellor's Further £4bn Benefits Cuts 'Ruthless and Reckless'.
- Government ‘peddling myths' to sell housing benefit cuts – Crisis
- Housing Benefit cuts: Chancellor’s example only applies to three families
- I've got ME, I'm not a benefits cheat.
- Is Welfare Reform Worth This?
- Jody McIntyre – a personification of the state's contempt for the disabled
- Johann Hari: Protest works. Just look at the proof
- Report highlights struggle of disabled people
- Speedy access to mental health treatment is vital
- Spending review: Disabled people dread impact of cuts
- The disability benefit reforms fail the liberal test.
- The Proposed Changes to ESA Will Fail Those With Incurable Illnesses
- The truth about George Osborne's reforms
- The war on welfare scroungers, part 77
- This talk of 'benefit cheats' is not only stigmatising, it is slanderous, too
- Thousands more could be stripped of incapacity benefit.
- Two welfare workers describe how the coalition's cuts will undermine their clients' already precarious livelihoods
- We Disabled People aren't Shirkers
- Welfare: Disabled and sick pay the price to save winter fuel allowance
- Why Osborne's benefits crackdown won't just hit the workshy.
- Women prisoners with personality disorder going 'under the radar' says Centre for Mental Health report
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