A Life in the Day: Volume 6 Issue 2

Editorial

Peter Beresford

In these extracts from the inaugural Henry Hawkins Annual Lecture, Professor Peter Beresford, Professor of Social Policy at Brunel University, challenges the unthinking use of…

Bridging those troubled waters

Mo Hutchison

Many people who have even a short period in hospital through mental illness lose their jobs. In one Bristol hospital, a survey showed that about 80% of people who had jobs on…

Foundation for Employment and Further Education: Course at Bridgend College to help people with enduring mental illness

Huw Davies, Bob Davies, Stephen Davies, Diana Moule

There is more to life and personal development than work — although it is sometimes hard to persuade funders of this fact. This article traces the development of a supported…

New Publications

Adam Pozner

In this issue, we look at how a multi‐agency partnership project in the north west has developed culturally‐sensitive employment services for black and minority ethnic clients ‐ a…

Hard work to understand

Judy Scott

Judy Scott warns that the new rules on Permitted Work may not be as helpful as we have been hoping — and that the literature being issued by the Department for Work and Pensions…

Promises, promises

Bob Grove

Bob Grove looks with sadness on the decision by the Department of Health not to follow through on the implementation of Welfare to Work Joint Investment plans. But this is not the…

Your Flexible Friend: Finance Schemes in Mental Health

Jeremy Pritlove

It has often been said, as a sort of joke, that everyone would be better off if day services were closed and the money given directly to service users to spend on themselves. The…

Grasping the nettle with employers: defining the problem, identifying solutions

Andrew Webster

Andrew Webster needs no introduction to readers of A Life in the Day. In this article he draws on years of experience as a manager, employer and user of mental health services to…