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An examination of why there has not been a greater uptake of personal budgets in mental health. Despite evidence that personal budgets provide improved mental health, it appears that there are systematic barriers preventing their more widespread use. These include:

- professionals who still perceive risk in allowing people with mental health problems controlling their own support

- a reluctance to shift from an emphasis on diagnoses and conditions

- a lack of NHS focus on personalisation, coupled with

- a growing trend among local authorities to distance themselves from mental health

It appears that without a concerted national focus within the social care sector itself, mental health provision in England will at best stagnate. What are your thoughts?

http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2015/jan/06/mental-health-personal-budgets-social-care

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All of us at Embrace-learning would like to wish you a happy New Year and we hope you have a very positive and uplifting 2015. Thank you for all your messages and contributions to our discussions and we look forward very much to hearing more from you!

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In 2014 the School for Social Care Research published "Care Home Managers: A scoping review of evidence". Authored by Katharine Orellana, the booklet attempts to provide for adults in England, an overview of evidence concerning the role and experience of the care home manager. Starting by addressing the question of who care managers are, attention then focuses on:

- their practice, experience and skills

- the supervision and support they receive from their superiors/home owners

- the challenges they face in practice

- gaps in the evidence base

Often alluded to as 'shadowy' figures, they have a defining impact on the culture of care.

http://www.sscr.nihr.ac.uk/PDF/ScopingReviews/SR8.pdf

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Peter Beresford's critique of the state of social care provision is essential reading. Frequently he makes reference to the ambiguity of political posturing in the face of an increasing state of emergency in the caring sector.

He calls for a radical policy review of personalisation and personal budgets; berates the abuse of 'eligibility criteria' as the smoke and mirrors of political expediency, which allows the likes of Paul Burstow to claim that there is "no funding gap", when estimates put it at £7billion; and describes, "... a fragmented social work education system ... what's most needed are skilled social workers spending more time with service users”.

http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2015/jan/05/revive-social-care-peter-beresford

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BBC Health Correspondent, Nick Triggle, reports on what the NHS needs to address at the start of 2015. Figures, which will be released later this week, are expected to reveal that performance in Accident and Emergency units in England has dropped to its worst level in a decade.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30633677

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