Month: July 2026

Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities

Parents with learning difficulties often face significant challenges that contribute to their overall disadvantage. Research shows these parents are over-represented in child welfare systems, with international estimates suggesting that 40-60% of their children are removed from their care at some point.

While safeguarding concerns remain central, these figures raise important questions about how parenting capacity is assessed and how parents are supported. We explore this further in our latest blog from the Working Together with Parents Network.

Link: Attachment and caregiving in families with parental learning disabilities | Research in Practice 

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Suicide Prevention and Self Harm bulletin

from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service

In this issue:  
   

  • Between Protocol and Presence: Clinicians’ Work in Suicide Risk Assessment
  • Recognizing Risk, Responding with Care: The Development of a Crisis Response Program for Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation in Children with Autism
  • The impact of patient death and suicide on mental health professionals: mixed-methods study
  • Psychological safety on mental health wards: more than preventing harm
  • Plus much more
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Norfolk’s Family Help model:

Championing Families First Partnerships

The Families First Partnership programme aims to transform how support for families is delivered across England. This includes implementing Family Help and multi-agency child protection reforms and increasing support for family networks.

In a new blog, Jen Dewar, Assistant Director for Family Help, Care and Protection within Norfolk Children’s Services, shares Norfolk’s Family Help model, an approach that aims to provide more responsive, inclusive family support. She outlines key elements of Norfolk’s model and the impact this has had on practice. 

Following an Ofsted inspection in February 2026, Norfolk Children’s Services was graded as outstanding across all five categories. The report, published in May, highlights the successful implementation of the Family Help model.

Read more here: Championing Families First Partnerships in Norfolk | Research in Practice

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Latest Neurodiversity Bulletin

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Welcome to the new Neurodiversity Bulletin!

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In this edition:

  • Changes to the definition of deprivation of liberty
  • The high cost of undiagnosed and untreated ADHD: Unequal mental‑health access and the care economy
  • How gaps in education, work and welfare support can push neurodivergent people into homelessness
  • Can We Talk About Suicide Among Men with ADHD?
  • Local areas prepare new Experts at Hand teams
  • Unlocking dyslexic potential: our new strategy for 2026 to 2030
  • Plus much more

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July’s Adult Aphasia, Dysarthria and Dysphagia Bulletin

Some articles are accessible with an OpenAthens username and password. To register for this please visit https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ (it is best to use an NHS PC to do this)

If you are unable to access any of the full references and work for RUH or our partner organisations, please let us know and we will source them for you.

Please note that ‘Get Confident with Evidence’ training advertised in the Bulletin is only available to staff and students based at the RUH, GWH, SFT, and partner organisations.

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dementia bulletin

from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service

In this issue:

  • Dementia blood biomarkers in the context of post‐stroke cognitive outcomes: Systematic review and evidence synthesis
  • Income level and the risk of incident dementia among adults aged ≥50 with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: a population-based cohort study using the NHIS-Senior database in South Korea
  • Association between the use of anti-herpetic drugs and subsequent initiation of Alzheimer’s disease drug treatment: Dutch population-based inception cohort study
  • Development and temporal validation of a machine learning model to estimate total MoCA scores from telephone-based items in patients with mild cognitive impairment
  • Plus much more
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Depression & Anxiety Bulletin

from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service

In this edition:

  • Immersive VR therapy for young people: promising, but early days
  • England facing children’s mental health ‘crisis’ as referrals hit 1m
  • Is There an Association Between Poor Sleep and Worsened Mental Health Outcomes in Medical Students: A Systematic Review
  • Interventions for smoking cessation in inpatient psychiatry settings
  • Plus much more

ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/depression-anxiety/2026/07/6-july-2026/

Neurodiversity Bulletin

Welcome to the new Neurodiversity Bulletin!

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The latest Neurodiversity Bulletin is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/neurodiversity/2026/06/3-june-2026-2/


In this edition:

  • First Impressions Count: A Systematic Literature Review Exploring Parents of Autistic Children’s First Encounters With Healthcare Professionals
  • ADHD and the female reproductive stages: menstruation, perinatal and menopause
  • Differentiating tics and functional tic-like behaviours in children and young people: personal and family mental health profiles and their clinical implications
  • New survey shows nearly two thirds of school staff worry about keeping children with SEND safe
  • Workplace Gaslighting Disproportionately Impacts Neurodivergent Professionals
  • School trips aren’t always accessible for autistic children – but they can bring huge benefits
  • Plus much more

Community Health Bulletin

The latest Community Health Bulletin is ready for you to view at  https://www.evidentlybetter.org/community-bulletin/2026/06/3-june-2026/

In this edition:

  • Prevention Starts Here: Health visitors, school nurses and children’s health in England
  • Young people with mental health conditions are now more likely to be NEET
  • Health Bill: summary – fact sheet
  • What would it take for the NHS to treat violence against women and girls as a public health emergency?
  • Trauma-informed care and racialised communities
  • Ageing with purpose: the surprising science of frailty reversal
  • Plus much more

Latest Depression & Anxiety bulletin

Dear all,

The latest Depression & Anxiety Bulletin from Mersey Care Evidence and Library Service is ready for you to view at https://www.evidentlybetter.org/depression-anxiety/2026/06/23-june-2026/

In this edition:

  • Suffering is not inevitable: a thematic analysis of a roundtable on ADHD and mental health
  • When staff wellbeing programmes backfire: lessons from a systematic review of mental health ward interventions
  • Should we wait until age 13 before giving our kids a smartphone?
  • Long-term disparities and mediators of psychological distress in mothers with and without out-of-home care experience: analysis of prospective cohort data
  • Plus much more

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