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Dollit
Guest
I have been to a meeting today with the Secretary of my local Neighbourhood Partnership, the Manager of the local Community Development Centre and an officer of the local council.
For those of you who don't know Neighbourhood Partnerships and the earlyish stages of something called Triple Devolution. This basically removes all of the responsibility into the hands of the local councils who then (in theory) pass it to the communities via Neighbourhood Partnerships along with small budgets.
Neighbourhood Partnerships are two or three adjoining political wards typically numbering 20,000 or so people - some are higher than this.
In our Neighbourhood Partnership area we have the highest rate of people with mental health problems across the city. This is due to the fact that we have quite a high proportion of high rise flats and several supported housing units. Some of the residents in supported housing are permanent and others are transient.
We have been meeting to discuss how we can positively include people with mental health issues in to the community. We have all agreed that herding people into groups will not work and are looking at activities that can integrate people more fully into society and also allow them to take positive steps in gaining confidence in social situations and also perhaps experience that can be transferred meaningfully to a CV.
I'll keep you up to date with this when we get more concrete ideas and facts.
For those of you who don't know Neighbourhood Partnerships and the earlyish stages of something called Triple Devolution. This basically removes all of the responsibility into the hands of the local councils who then (in theory) pass it to the communities via Neighbourhood Partnerships along with small budgets.
Neighbourhood Partnerships are two or three adjoining political wards typically numbering 20,000 or so people - some are higher than this.
In our Neighbourhood Partnership area we have the highest rate of people with mental health problems across the city. This is due to the fact that we have quite a high proportion of high rise flats and several supported housing units. Some of the residents in supported housing are permanent and others are transient.
We have been meeting to discuss how we can positively include people with mental health issues in to the community. We have all agreed that herding people into groups will not work and are looking at activities that can integrate people more fully into society and also allow them to take positive steps in gaining confidence in social situations and also perhaps experience that can be transferred meaningfully to a CV.
I'll keep you up to date with this when we get more concrete ideas and facts.