"Postnatal wards are meant to nurture and support new mothers at a time when they are highly vulnerable, but this is the opposite of what I saw."
Alice Giucca describes how her experience on a postnatal ward showed a system in collapse
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
I spoke to Chris Smyth for this Times piece on the rising numbers of people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for anxiety & depression (link to the article at the end of this thread)
Here are the five key things we need to consider to understand this trend... 🧵
I don't think I could find data on this when I looked, but I'd guess that there are a lot of people with support needs who are living in temporary accommodation and getting no support, at a higher cost than supported housing. And if that isn't reliably recorded, how can we know the scale of need?
We have such uneven spending on housing for people in need, too - dwindling budgets for voluntary sector, commissioned housing (from legacy Supporting People budgets), vs escalating costs for reactive & unstrategic use of temporary accommodation and spot purchased, typically private provision
PLEASE SHARE! We are looking for info about providing effective support to young mothers and birthing parents (aged 25 and under) in the perinatal period. We are looking for papers/reports/evaluations/blogs/commentaries. Send to: [email protected]. Information: perinatalsupport.co.uk
Today we're in Birmingham for our 'Back To Their Futures Summit: Transforming Care for children subject to deprivation of liberty (DoL) orders'.
What do children on DoL orders need?
These principles of care were created alongside a team of experts: www.nuffieldfjo.org.uk/resource/pri...
We should not underestimate what a progressive step this is for our reproductive rights
www.bbc.com/news/article...