Bulletin July 2008

Issue 33

Communities & Local Government

CSIP South West has recently Target shake up delivers stronger focus on
issues that matter to the public
changed to a new communications
system. To contact CSIP employees The results of a comprehensive shake up of council
please use the following email targets and priorities were published recently.
combination The priorities - agreed in partnership with central
Firstname.Surname@csip.org.uk government - show the pattern of issues across
(e.g. carol.prescott@csip.org.uk) England that councils will now have to grapple with
over the next three years.

Click below to read the full news article.

National News
Department of Health
World Class Commissioning Assurance System
The delivery of the world class commissioning vision
and competencies will take place within a
commissioning assurance system. This will drive
peformance and development, and reward PCTs as
they move towards becoming world class
commissioners.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Managingyourorganisation/C
ommissioning/Worldclasscommissioning/Assurance/i
ndex.htm
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/8664
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The chosen priorities in every local area in England
can be viewed at:
http://www.localpriorities.communities.gov.uk
Department of Health
Health Secretary’s Goal to Tackle Health
Inequalities
The Government's commitment to tackling health
inequalities and helping the most deprived
communities was set out by Health Secretary Alan
Johnson on 10 June 2008 together with details of
£34 million to fund programmes to support local
communities.

Click below to view or download the full news article.

http://nds.coi.gov.uk/environment/fullDetail.asp?Rele
aseID=369909&NewsAreaID=2&NavigatedFromDep
artment=False

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 National Offender Management Service
The Offender Management Guide to Working with
Women Offenders
This document gives guidance to probation areas,
offender managers and Regional Offender Managers
and Directors of Offender Management, to improve
service delivery to women in the criminal justice
system to help them to reduce their offending. The
intention is to promote the best possible provision for
this, generally vulnerable, offender group at all
stages of their ‘journey’ through the criminal justice
system, with the aim of breaking cycles of re-
offending and, where appropriate, providing effective
alternatives to custody for socially excluded women
at risk of offending .
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/managem
ent-guide-to-working-with-women-offenders.doc
NHS Confederation
Cabinet Champion Needed for Better Mental
Health for All, says new Coalition
A New Vision for Mental Health, from the Future
Vision Coalition', calls for action to build on the
successes of the National Service Framework (NSF)
for Mental Health, to put mental wellbeing at the
centre of public policy and to improve the quality of
life of all people with mental health problems.
Click below to view or download the full press
release.
http://www.nhsconfed.org/issues/mediacentre-
listing.cfm/pressrelease/794
Department of Health
Transforming the quality of dementia care -
consultation on a National Dementia Strategy
The Government's first National Dementia Strategy
consultation document was published recently. The
Strategy is one of the first national strategies that
focuses on the Commissioner's responsibility in
delivering high quality services. This is a move away
from previous national strategies that has expected
providers to drive improvements.
Click below to view or download a copy of the
Consultation paper.
http://www.changeagentteam.org.uk/_library/Strategy
.pdf
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Department of Health
Carers at the heart of 21st century families and
communities: a caring system on your side, a life
of your own
The carers' strategy sets out the Government's short-
term agenda and long-term vision for the future care
and support of carers.
The carers' strategy is underpinned by £255 million
to implement some immediate steps alongside with
medium and long-term plans.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Pu
blications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_0853
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Department of Health
Strategic Health Authorities’ Visions for Better
Healthcare
Each of the nine Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs)
involved in the Review published their visions for
better healthcare during May and early June 2008.
These vision documents will be the basis of Lord
Darzi’s final Our NHS, our future report, which will
enable and support their delivery.
Click below to view or download a copy of the South
West Vision
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Pu
blications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_0854
00?IdcService=GET_FILE&dID=166899&Rendition=
Web
South West News
CSIP South West
Health, Social Care & Criminal Justice (HSCCJ)
Programme
The HSCCJ has developed an area on the CSIP
South West website. To visit these pages click
below.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/our-work/health--
social-care-in-criminal-justice.html
Publications & Resources
National Offender Management Service
National Service Framework – Improving
Services to Women Offenders
This is a strategic framework to achieve improved
and effective service delivery to women in the
Criminal Justice System to enable them to reduce
their offending.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://noms.justice.gov.uk/news-publications-
events/publications/strategy/NSF-Women-
08?view=Binary
Mental Health Foundation
Keeping the Faith – Spirituality and Recovery
from Mental Health Problems
The potential for a positive relationship between
spirituality and mental wellbeing has been illustrated
previously by the Mental Health Foundation but how
this is occurs at a practice level has been largely left
unexplored. This report, funded by the Department of
Health, explores how spiritual activities as part of an
integrative approach can support the mental health
and healing of individuals.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/keeping-
the-faith.pdf
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The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
Mental Health into the Mainstream – An ADASS
Discussion Paper
This discussion paper calls for a new, ten-year,
cross-government national strategy for mental health
and wellbeing focusing on eight priorities:
• Enabling people to live ordinary lives,
• Putting the person first,
• Safeguarding people,
• Developing effective and accessible services,
• Creating a mentally healthy society,
• Supporting people who care for people with
mental health problems,
• Building capacity in public services.
• Taking forward Vision 2015: the future of
mental health, published by the Sainsbury
Centre for Mental Health, the NHS
Confederation, the Local Government and
Association of Directos of Adult Social Services
in 2006
Click below to view or download a copy of the
document.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/mental-
health-into-the-mainstream--an-adass-discussion-
paper.pdf
A Collective Responsibility to Act Now on Ageing
and Mental Health – A Consensus Statement
Formal consultation on the National Dementia
Strategy for England has begun - the organisations
endorsing this statement firmly believe it should mark
only the starting point of a comprehensive
commitment to address the full range of mental
health problems in later life. Dementia cannot and
should not be seen in isolation from the rest of
mental illness in older people. For instance
depression affects three times as many older people
as dementia. It is essential that the funding and
resources necessary are made available to
implement sustained improvements across the
spectrum of later life mental disorder, which must
also include a focus on mental health promotion.
Click below to view a copy of this document
http://www.snpearstesting.org/consensusfinal.pdf
 National Statistics
Attitudes to Mental Illness 2008 Research Report
This report presents the findings of a survey of
attitudes towards mental illness among adults in
England. Questions on this topic have been asked as
part of TNS's face-to-face Omnibus since 1994. The
most recent previous surveys in the series were
carried out in 2003 and 2007.
The aim of these surveys is to monitor public
attitudes towards mental illness, and to track
changes over time.
Click below to view or download a copy of this report.
http://www.londondevelopmentcentre.org/cms/site/do
cs/Bulletin/July%2008/DH_084573[1].pdf
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Experiences of children and young people caring
for a parent with a mental health problem
This briefing focuses on the experiences of children
and young people under 18 years of age caring for a
parent or parents defined as having mental health
problems that are ‘serious’ or ‘severe’, and
‘enduring’.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
briefing paper.
http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/briefings/files/scar
e24.pdf
Department of Health
Mental Health Act 2007: Report on the
Consultation Exercises on the Draft Revised
Code of Practice and Secondary Legislation
This report covers the consultation exercises
conducted from 24 October 2007 to 24 January 2008
on the draft revised Code of Practice to the Mental
Health Act 1983 and on the secondary legislation to
be made in the light of the Mental Health Act 2007. It
details the process, analyses the responses received
and explains which comments were accepted and
which discarded and why.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.londondevelopmentcentre.org/cms/site/do
cs/Bulletin/July%2008/DH_084606.pdf
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The Equalities Review
Engendered Penalties: Transgender and
Transsexual People’s Experiences of Inequality
and Discrimination
This research project was undertaken for the
Equalities Review between the period of July 14th
and September 1st 2006. During this 6 week period,
the researchers undertook a mixed quantitative/
qualitative approach to collecting and analysing
information on transgender and transsexual people’s
experiences of inequality and discrimination in the
UK.
This report is an analysis and summary of the results
obtained, and it outlines the levels of inequality and
discrimination that trans people face.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/engendere
d-penalties.pdf
Department of Health
Support, Time & Recovery (STR) Worker – A
Competence Framework
This Best Practice Guidance sets out the
background; purpose; and development of the
Competence Framework for Support, Time and
Recovery (STR) workers employed across health
and social care sectors.
Click below to view or download a copy of this
document.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/str-
workers--a-competence-framework.pdf
National Events
Changing Minds, Social Perspectives Network,
Social Care Institute for Excellence
Power to the People? A study day exploring
personalisation in mental health
8 July 2008 -10.00am – 4.00pm
The Sturtridge Suite, Weedon Road, NN5 5BG,
Northampton
This study day is open to all service users, careers,
practitioners, managers, commissioners, academics
and other people interested in sharing good practice
and examining the challenges for all the stakeholders
in realising the promise of this bold new agenda.
Click below for further information or  020 7089
6864
http://kc.csip.org.uk/viewdocument.php?action=viewd
ox&pid=0&doc=38497&grp=1
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
The Heart & Soul of Change. What Works in
Therapy?
14 July 2008
EMMTEC Building, University of Lincoln
This workshop will provide a detailed recipe for
enhancing what works based upon the empirically
validated guidelines of how change actually happens
in therapy.
Click below for further information.
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/heart--
soul-workshop.doc
Neil Stewart Association
Transforming Social Care: Putting People First
15 July 2008
Jurys Great Russell Street Hotel, London
This is a milestone conference for senior managers
and policy makers in adult social care from health,
local government, the voluntary and private sectors.
It will provide a unique opportunity to bring together
the full range of players from the Putting People First
consortium and provide high level policy guidance
and feedback on how this change is being taken
forward.
Click below for further information or  020 7324
4363,
http://www.neilstewartassociates.com/sh244/
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Substance
After the Event: Culture and Sport – Access &
Legacies
15 & 16 July 2008
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
This conference will focus on events of every hue -
from the global to the local; from the mega to the
mini; from cultural to sports. It will ask: ‘How do we
make them ‘open’? How do we make them work for
us? What do we mean by legacy?’
Click below for further information.
http://app.e2ma.net/app/view:CampaignPublic/id:594
0.1017880211/rid:f871be3a7b268c91f411a963e1a0c
7da
Department of Health
Towards a Strategy to Support Volunteering in
Health and Social Care
2 September 2008
Somerset County Cricket Club, Taunton TA1 1JT
The Department of Health launched on the 3rd June
2008, a ‘Vision towards a Volunteering Strategy’, for
consultation. The aim is to promote the role of
volunteering in the context of health and social care
reform, and inform improvements to support
volunteering across the health and social care
system.
For further information and a booking form, please
go to:
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/towards-
strategy-to-support-volunteering-in-health-and-social-
care.doc
Nacro
Improving Health, Supporting Justice: Meeting
the Challenge
3-4 September 2008
University of Derby
‘Improving Health, Supporting Justice’, strategy for
offender health and social care, sets out a template
to meet the mental health needs along the criminal
justice pathway and includes both those offenders
being resettled from prison and those supervised in
the community.
Click below for further information or  020 7840
6466,
http://kc.csip.org.uk/viewdocument.php?action=viewd
ox&pid=0&doc=38261&grp=1
 B-U Events Ltd
Pavilion Dual Diagnosis – Clinical Skills Conference
Future Challenges – Exploring creative ways for 8 October 2008
mental health education and training to bridge Leicester Racecourse, Oadby, Leicester
the gaps between legislation, policy and practice
10 & 11 September 2008 Living with Dual Diagnosis, mental health and
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham substance use means a complex presentation to
services, which, at times do not hold the key skills to
This conference will examine the role of address the issues. This conference aims to discuss
education and training as an essential bridge these issues and explore ways of moving services
between legislation, policy and practice. This forward for service users.
will be done through:
• presentations on the key themes of Click below for further details or  07527 201051 or
07964 698163
implementing legislation and
consolidating recent innovative
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/dual-
initiatives in education and training
diagnosis--clinical-skills.doc
• concurrent sessions concentrating on
specific areas and challenges for
education and training
• a concluding session to evaluate the Association of Directors of Social Services & Local
conference, draw together key messages Government Association
and set the scene for the 2009 National Children and Adult Services (NCAS)
conference. Conference
22-24 October 2008
Click below for further information or  0870 890 Liverpool Arena & Convention Centre
1080
The theme for this conference is “Sharing the Vision -
http://www.pavpub.com/pavpub/conferences/showfull Shaping the Future”.
.asp?Conference=721
The programme will consist of a mix of keynote/
ministerial addresses and other significant plenary
sessions by key players in the adult and children
sectors. There will also be the opportunity to take
Cygnet Health Care
part in a variety of participatory breakouts and
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Adults with
networking sessions.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
2 October 2008
Click below for further details or  01609 532705
Royal College of Physicians 11 St Andrews Place,
Regent’s Park, London NW1 4LE http://www.adss.org.uk/events/2008/conf08.shtm
l
The conference will address the mental health
problems that affect adults with Autistic Spectrum
Disorders (ASDs). Experts in the field will give an
overview of how mental health problems present with
ASDs, including what they are, how common they
are, and what causes them.

Click below for further information or  01438

342942

http://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/about-us/news-
events/spectrum-meeting.html

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 NHS Employers
Leading Workforce Thinking
4-6 November 2008
International Conference Centre, Birmingham
This conference promises a high quality programme,
innovative thinking from high profile speakers and
the chance to make connections through networking
with colleagues.
The conference offers a unique opportunity for
healthcare leaders to discuss workforce issues,
exchange views and ideas and expand their
knowledge. Featuring a mix of thought-provoking
plenary sessions, interactive workshops, in-depth
masterclasses and a first class exhibition, this
important event is your chance to take a step back
from your day job, learn and be inspired.
Click below for further information.
http://www.nhsemployers.org/toolkit/conference.cfm
South West Events
Care Services Improvement Partnership – Valuing
People Support Team
Supporting People with Complex Needs
8 July 2008
The Royal Hotel, South Parade, Weston Super
Mare
A number of people will deliver presentation relating
to services, networks and therapies to help support
people with complex needs.
For further information, please contact Jackie
Edwards, Valuing People Carer Co-ordinator on
01934 875643 Jackie.Edwards@ukonline.co.uk
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CSIP South West
Dementia Strategy Consultation Event
17 July 2008
The Warspite Room, Council House, Civic Centre,
Royal Parade, Plymouth
Following the Department of Health Listening events,
the National Dementia Strategy is due for publication
in early June. This event will explore the content and
how this will be taken forward by health and social
care organisations. The final publication is due in
October 2008 following this period of consultation.
The flyer is available at:
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/dementia-
strategy-flyeer.pdf
and a booking form from:
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/dementia-
strategy-rsvp.doc
CSIP South West
Dementia Strategy Consultation Event
23 July 2008
British Airways Workers Association Healthcare
& Leisure Centre, Southmead Road, Filton,
Bristol
Following the Department of Health Listening events,
the National Dementia Strategy is due for publication
in early June. This event will explore the content and
how this will be taken forward by health and social
care organisations. The final publication is due in
October 2008 following this period of consultation.
The flyer is available at:
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/dementia-
strategy-flyeer.pdf
and a booking form from:
http://www.southwest.csip.org.uk/silo/files/dementia-
strategy-rsvp.doc
 Equality South West
Get Involved in the LGBT Health Summit
4-5 September 2008
BAWA Healthcare & Leisure Centre, Bristol
The theme of this year’s summit is Equality and
Diversity. The key objectives are to:
 raise awareness of differences in health
outcomes affecting LGBT people;
 share ideas and good practice regarding the
removal of barriers to service access for LGBT
people;
 focus on the specific and differing needs of a
broad range of LGBT people, including older
people, BME communities, disabled people
and those living in rural settings;
 foster partnership working and to make
recommendations about improving health
outcomes for LGBT people.
Click below for further information.
http://www.lgbthealth.co.uk/userimages/Abstract_sub
mission_form_FINAL_07_05_08.doc
Noticeboard
South Somerset MIND - Re-Launch & Open Day
24 July 2008 - 10.00am – 3.00pm
The Markwick Centre, Dampier Street, Yeovil.
BA21 4EN
For further information about this event  01935
474875 or 01935 410138
Voluntary Action Swindon
Swindon LINk Development Officer
Full time, 35 hours/week
£23,749 - £25,320 pa + up to 5% pension
contribution
Closing date: 4 July 2008, 4pm
Interview date: week commencing 14 July 08
Voluntary Action Swindon is a local charity
supporting voluntary groups in the community. There
is an opportunity for an outstanding individual to
support and develop the Swindon Local Involvement
Network (LINk):

For further details and an application form, you can

Newsletters/Web Links visit the website at: http://www.vas-swindon.org
Equality South West
News from Equality South West The successful applicants will be subject to a CRB
check.
Click below to view or download a copy of the July
Newsletter.

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than 20th of each month, at
carol.prescott@csip.org.uk

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