Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts (and more) that we’ve shared in our weekly bulletins this month. The main focus of this section in our bulletin is to share new, first person pieces written or made by people within and beyond our membership who have lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, or distress, as well as relevant articles about news and policy in mental health from sources such as Disability News Service.
We’ll be posting this roundup at the end of each month as a way to further bring together, amplify and also archive current, lived experience-focussed voices and perspectives in mental health.
The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves
Blog by Rick Burgess via Novara Media.
The management of patients who self-harm in adult inpatient mental health settings: A policy analysis of English NHS mental health trusts
Article by Hannah Sharp, Judith Johnson, Cathy Brennan and John Baker via PLOS One.
‘Disastrous’ cuts bill that leaves legacy of distrust and distress ‘must be dropped’
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Institutional abuse, neglect and harm in UK community mental health services: A scoping review of the peer-reviewed evidence
Article by multiple authors via OSFPREPRINTS.
NSUN Responds to the Universal Credit Bill
Statement by and via NSUN.
UN committee sounds alarm over Labour’s benefits bill: ‘It should shame the government’
Blog by Isabella McRae via the Big Issue.
Against Rights: Critiquing the contemporary neoliberal management of “difficult” mental health
Article by Lizzie Hughes and Jenny Logan via Abolitionist Futures.
Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash
Article by Frances Ryan via the Guardian.
Reviews into deaths and other harm linked to universal credit nearly double… as MPs vote for billions in cuts
Blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
The Government promised change, then chose cruelty
Blog by Dan White via Amnesty International.
What is Open Dialogue? Why It Inspires Me
Blog by Rai Waddingham via Dialogue Revolution.
Fighting disability cuts
Blog by Andy Mitchell via Unite Live.
Self-Harm and the Implementation Gap
Blog by Naomi Salisbury via Naomi Salisbury Consulting.
Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Only 17 peers back disabled people on cuts, as leading Tory says living on benefits is ‘not a life of dignity’
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.