🗣"Fix mental health and fix so many of the UK's problems" 💷It costs England alone £300bn a year. 🙋‍♂️It's not just about numbers, its about people. Centre for Mental Health's new report with Mind sets out the facts in an ambitious new report. Listen: tiny.cc/MHM341

Last week we hosted our sister organisations Mind and SAMH (Scottish Action for Mental Health). An insightful two days which re-focused and inspired our united dedication to supporting millions of people with their mental health across all 4 nations 💜

Good story in ⁦Third Sector⁩ on our #CharityReformGroup essays being launched today. Our sector needs a stronger voice in the national discourse. For that to happen we need to be louder and clearer on what we’re about. thirdsector.co.uk/charities-beco…

If the govt is going to deliver its missions where others have failed, it should work in partnership with the charity sector from the start, bringing their expertise, reach and knowledge of what works to their mission boards - the message sent to the PM by charity leaders today.

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The implication that ‘middle class women’ are having a go at a working class bloke is wild. This statement is oozing with misogyny & classism that only serves to reveal an audacity and entitlement that is deeply worrying! Wow 😠

Don’t even get me started on the ridiculous question I keep seeing ‘why didn’t they speak sooner’! Bore off with this nonsense, if you don’t know by now why then I suggest you might be the problem! Fix up people, fix up! 😡

Important insights Peter Wanless about the reality for our children. Austerity and online harms hurt our kids, yet it’s virtually impossible to get real action, that’s why civil society must keep going and not hide away from the hard truths!

My quote from today’s piece in The Times and The Sunday Times by Sue Tibballs of Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) - we at the #CharityReformGroup published a series of essays on this theme last week. You can read them here smk.org.uk/what-we-do/cha…

#TheBumBumTrain… 🤩😮🤐

Tune in today: 12.30pm on itv1/itvx for Loose Women's 25-hour Talkathon in aid of Britain Get Talking.  Our Loose Women will be continuing the conversation round the clock to raise awareness & funds for mental health helplines & services. Mind YoungMinds SAMH

Yes, so are we Mind 😔

🧵 Too often, inpatient mental health services are marked by coercion and restriction in environments that risk re-traumatising patients rather than helping them to recover. We've been exploring what #CareBeyondBeds could look like 👇centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/c…