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Centre for Mental Health
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Speaking up for social justice in mental health. Find out more https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/
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Together with @cypmentalhealth.bsky.social, @mind.org.uk, @rethinkcharity.bsky.social and others we have written to equalities minister Bridget Phillipson MP urging her to safeguard the mental health of trans and non-binary people the across UK. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
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December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Kadra Abdinasir is Associate Director for Policy @centreformh.bsky.social She speaks about highly punitive schools impact on young people’s mental health. So much important research and thoughtful insights + race, behaviourism, sanctions.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We welcome today’s announcement that the DHSC will launch a review to examine rising referrals for mental health, autism and ADHD services. We hope it will spur action so we see start to see a decline in prevalence and better outcomes for those who need support. Read more 👇https://bit.ly/449JN2h
Centre for Mental Health welcomes launch of prevalence review - Centre for Mental Health
Our response the launch of the government review into the rising referrals for mental health, autism and ADHD services.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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We welcome today’s report from @commonshealth.bsky.social
which rightly highlights the urgent pressures facing community mental health services. These services are the backbone of mental health care and must be strengthened. Read our response 👇 www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/ce...
Text: Today's report from the Health and Social Care Select Committee rightly highlights the urgent pressures facing community mental health services. We urge the Government to implement these recommendations in full and ensure community mental health services receive the sustained investment and attention they urgently need.
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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On #WorldAIDSDay, @davidwoodhead.bsky.social reflects on the collective memory and mental health legacy of the AIDs crisis of the 1980s and 90s.
Read David's blog 👇https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/echoes-of-survival-queer-reflections-on-getting-older-mental-health-and-world-aids-day/
Text: The mental health legacy of AIDS is complex. It encompasses deep psychological wounds and catastrophic re-enactments (the unconscious repetition of post-traumatic events). We know, for example, that suicide rates among gay men are disproportionately high, and many report depression and anxiety. David Woodhead. World Aids Day. Text: Yet it also conveys a kind of empowerment. We want to be visible and acknowledged. We have a deep pride in who we are in all our diversity and difference. And we display profound resilience in the face of our ongoing, and sometimes growing, marginalisation as members of an international LGBTQIA+ community. David Woodhead. World Aids Day.
December 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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New @england.nhs.uk data released today underlines the inequalities that create so much mental illness health in our society. Read our response from @andybell-centremh.bsky.social www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/ad...
Text: New report exposes how serious mental illness is related to inequality. We urgently need a cross-government plan to build a mentally healthier future.
November 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Ending the two child benefit cap is brilliant news but we are disappointed that mental health was absent from the Chancellor’s speech today. Read our response to the #Budget25👇
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Text: Autumn budget’s silence on mental health sends a worrying signal. Mental health must be treated with the same urgency as physical health.
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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“Am I Queer Enough?” @davidwoodhead.bsky.social reflects on visibility, ethics, and contradictions as a a middle-aged gay man in recovery and a mental health researcher.
Read more in the journal from @durhamimh.bsky.social 👇
thepolyphony.org/2025/11/24/am-i-queer-enough/
Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide
David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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We stand with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social as a coalition of racial justice, migrants’ rights and civil society organisations, calling for this divisive guidance to be revoked immediately. Read the full letter 👇https://www.runnymedetrust.org/news/open-letter-home-secretary-police-guidance
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We've written to the Home Secretary and Chair of the National Police Chiefs’ Council raising our concerns that guidance encouraging police forces to disclose the ethnicity and nationality of suspects charged in high-profile cases is having a devastating impact on our country.
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Young women are facing stark inequalities in mental health. They are twice as likely to have a mental health problem than young men. But when they need help they're too often let down by services that don’t meet their needs. This has to change. www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/why-young-wo...
Icon image representing five people. Text: Young women who had experienced sexism were five times more likely to experience depression than those that hadn’t. (Young Women’s Trust, 2019) Icon image representing a group of people. Half are highlighted. Text: half of all women seeking mental health support do so as a direct result of domestic abuse. (Woman’s Trust, 2025) Icon image representing two people with speech bubbles. Text: We need investment in bespoke support for young women in places they feel safe and listened to. Without it, young women will continue to be let down.
November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Young women are twice as likely to experience a mental health problem as young men, but they are being let down by mental health services which aren’t meeting their needs. www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/news/item/yo...
Text: Mental health difficulties are twice as common in young women as in young men. Among 17-19 year olds, 31.6% of young women have a mental health problem, compared to 15.4% of young men. This gap persists for those aged 20-25, with 30.4% of young women and 13.4% of young men affected. (NHS Digital, 2023)
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Brilliant day with the @cypmentalhealth.bsky.social bringing together members on their 15th birthday to celebrate the progress made in the children’s mental health system in the last 15 years and create ideas together to make things better for children and young people for the future
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Windrush scandal was not only a political scandal of UK structural racism. It was the start of a mental health crisis. Professor Patrick Vernon describes the hidden, intergenerational health toll and calls for a covenant of care, justice & respect www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/towards-a-wi...
Towards a Windrush Covenant: Healing the Mental Scars of Injustice - Centre for Mental Health
Professor Patrick Vernon describes the hidden, intergenerational health toll of the Windrush scandal, and calls for a covenant of care, justice, and respect
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The climate crisis is also a public health crisis, drastically impacting physical & mental health. And much of the news from COP30 is bleak. To build true climate resilience, protecting mental health is as vital as reducing emissions. Read more: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/climate-chan...
Close-up photo of a protest with people holding sings reading: no planet B, and green new deal. Text: It’s not just the ice caps that are melting – our mental resilience is also under pressure. Addressing the crisis means catering to the planet’s sustainability needs as well as our own psychological needs. Dr Angela Smith
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Yesterday we had a brilliant thought provoking day with some of our trustees and brap to explore the complexities and challenges of anti-racist work and how we can help drive forward anti-racist practice in mental health. www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/about-us/ant...
Group of staff and trustees at Centre for Mental Health
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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The Government has announced an independent investigation into the rising number of young people not in education, training or employment, with a particular focus on the impact of mental health conditions and disability. Read the announcement
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November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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What started as a small idea to address the subtle but harmful effects of microaggressions has grown into a movement tackling microaggressions, racism & discrimination in education. Crown Agabi reflects and looks to the future of Not So Micro: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/not-so-micro...
Text: "Through discussions and campaigns, we challenge the normalisation of everyday racism and highlight how racial trauma can affect self-esteem, belonging, and mental health." Not So Micro
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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New research from @healthequals.bsky.social finds that 15 million people in the UK live in homes with issues like damp, cold or mould. The impact on our mental health as well as our physical health can be devastating, causing respiratory symptoms, depression and anxiety.
New research from Health Equals finds that 1 in 4 people in the UK live in homes with issues like damp, mould and cold. These issues are known causes of mental health problems.
November 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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"If we want to improve productivity, we have to make use of the resources that we already have by shifting focus towards preventing mental ill health and intervening earlier." Hear from Kadra Abdinasir our Associate Director of Policy in this piece👇 www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...
Will Britain ever be healthy enough to work properly?
Our country is increasingly full of young struggling to work. Helping them is key to our future prosperity and growth.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Black mothers face significantly higher risks and barriers to perinatal mental health support. We're at Parliament with the Motherhood group and Maternal Mental Health Alliance highlighting the urgent need for culturally competent, trauma-informed perinatal mental health care for Black mothers
A group of mostly Black woman sitting around a table in a meeting room, listening to one woman speak. Text: We’re supporting the Motherhood Group’s urgent call for action on perinatal care, to ensure all women, babies and families have access to the mental health support needed during pregnancy and early motherhood. Two Black woman smiling at the camera. One is holding a report titled Black maternal mental health report 2025
November 4, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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The new NHS Medium Term Planning Framework will be used by ICBs to make decisions on how to use scarce resources but it offers little hope of the kind of transformational change and investment we need.
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What does the NHS Medium-Term Planning Framework mean for mental health services? - Centre for Mental Health
For mental health services, the Planning Framework presents at best a mixed picture.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Webinar - Join us on Thurs 13 November to hear about Barnardo’s Inner Resilience and Development service. BIRD supports children and young people who arrive at emergency departments with mental health difficulties. Full details and registration here: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/webinar-brid...
Text: Thursday 13 November 2025. 12:30-13:30. Online webinar: Bridging the Gap. How Barnardo’s BIRD service supports children and young people’s mental health. Image: a young girl walking on a residential street, holding her mobile phone
October 31, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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A @barnardos.org.uk service which supports children and young people outside hospital improves their mental health and helps families understand their needs, our latest report finds.
www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications... #BridgingTheGap
Text: "it was really helpful and saved my life" 13 year old referred to BIRD due to self-harm behaviours.
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Yesterday @dumpthescales.bsky.social as secretariat of the APPG on Eating Disorders launched an important report on the prevention of eating disorder deaths. This lays bare a system failing people and calls for urgent, coordinated action.
Read the report here: www.dumpthescales.org/our-reports
October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM