Beyond proud to pick up the Best Use of Technology award for Chasing the Stigma #hubofhope at Charity Times Awards this evening. As always, huge thanks to Mashbo for making a vision a reality. #CharityTimesAwards

"My physical appearance does not dictate my ability and nor does my mental illness. As much as no one knows the path you walked, you shouldn’t assume to know a person’s whole life story." Read Charlotte's blog about the impact of stigma: bit.ly/2qmLOVq

Can anyone believe this? 5 and a half years since Connor died and Southern Health are still being rated as "Requires Improvement" by CQC. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

My truly brilliant colleague and comrade Helen Spandler gives keynote talk on mental health politics at Critical Voices conference in Cork ⁦CVNI Ireland⁩ ⁦@UCLanResearch⁩ ⁦UCLan Mental Health⁩ ⁦Asylum Magazine⁩ ⁦@unisontweets⁩ ⁦UNISON North West⁩

Taking Stock 2018 is under way. The introductory video narrated by two young girls who know more about the law than their father Neil Allen will be a tough act to follow next year!

A persuasive case from George Szmukler to abolish the discrimination against mental health patients inherent in the distinction between mental capacity law and the Mental Health Act at #ts18

Sobering reflections from jerusha #ts18

Sobering reflections from P.jerusha rani on the social, historical and cultural context of the specific discrimination experienced by African and Caribbean people - relating to mental health and beyond.

Powerful presentation at #ts18 from @Consultancy_HS demonstrating why critical and social theoretical concepts are essential in understanding issues of ‘race’ in the present social and political context, and in our mental health practice.

How can we do justice to the contribution of Neil Allen at #ts19 ? He should be on the telly, doing for mental health law what Brian Cox does for physics and cosmology.

Excellent to have Alex Ruck Keene back with us for #ts18 . Alex brings clarity to such incredibly complex areas of the law. If the government were just to do as he suggests we would be in a much better place!

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Booking page for this year's Taking Stock conference - 15/11/2019 - now open: eventbrite.co.uk/e/taking-stock…

Great - we look forward to seeing you on the day!

Apologies to anyone who has tried to contact us about the Taking Stock conference via the incorrect email address given on the Eventbrite page. We have now amended the typographical error!

We're planning an AMHPA podcast in place of the events we would normally be hosting. We have pilots planned to look at Community Treatment Orders and Covid-19. If you have any questions on these themes - or suggestions of any other themes - please let us know. Thank you.

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