{"id":23167,"date":"2019-07-29T08:41:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=23167"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:44:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T08:44:29","slug":"social-workers-and-a-new-mental-health-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/07\/29\/social-workers-and-a-new-mental-health-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Workers and a new Mental Health Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work, July 2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Report in response to the Independent Review of the Mental health Act 1983, that calls on the Government and NHS Trusts to recognise the social factors of mental health distress and promote the social model of health within new mental health legislation.  It also looks at the integration of health and social care, and how social workers\u2019 role can be enhanced in new legislation, in order to uphold the human rights of children and adults suffering ill mental health.  The report setsout four principles that should underpin new legislation: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u00a0Choice and autonomy \u2013 ensuring service users\u2019 views and choices are respected<\/li><li>Least restriction \u2013 ensuring the Act\u2019s powers are used in the least restrictive way <\/li><li>Therapeutic benefit \u2013 ensuring patients are supported to get better, so they can be discharged from the Act <\/li><li>People as individuals \u2013 ensuring patients are viewed and treated as rounded individuals <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allcatsrgrey.org.uk\/wp\/download\/social_care\/social_work\/Inquiry-Report-APPG-on-Social-Work-Social-Workers-and-A-New-Mental-Health-Act..pdf#new_tab\">Click here<\/a> to view the full report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Work, July 2019 Report in response to the Independent Review of the Mental health Act 1983, that calls on the Government and NHS Trusts to recognise the social factors of mental health distress and promote the social model of health within new mental health legislation. It also looks at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2019\/07\/29\/social-workers-and-a-new-mental-health-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Workers and a new Mental Health Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126,141,249],"tags":[3582],"class_list":["post-23167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation","category-mental-health","category-social-workers","tag-mental-health-act"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23168,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23167\/revisions\/23168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}