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Janine, the magic of MST, and the myth of easy-to-get food bank vouchers
Originally posted on londonfoodbank: The new lie in circulation is that people are heading to food banks in vastly increasing numbers simply because they’re now aware that food banks exist. Was it Chancellor George Osborne who got this myth up and running earlier in 2013, when he suggested food bank use had gone up, ‘because people have been made aware of the food bank service through jobcentres’? The insulting implication being that a bunch of layabout chancers are flooding through the doors of food banks in search of freebies that ‘hard-working people’ would never dream of taking. It’s been emphasis...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 18, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Dad deported from UK for having cancer
Originally posted on Pride's Purge: (not satire – it’s the UK today!) The coalition government is so desperate to show it has reduced immigration before the next election, it’s now taken to deporting NHS workers, psychotherapists, chemical engineers and dads with cancer. Cameron’s nanny, however, stays. Ralph Marx is a chemical engineer. He lived in the UK for 13 years with his British (former Royal Navy chief petty officer) wife and their 10-year-old daughter Alexandra. Then in 2012 he was refused residency by the Home Office. He was told it was because he had been diagnosed with cancer. He was deported ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 17, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Good riddance to bad rubbish: Universal Jobmatch to be scrapped
Originally posted on Vox Political: Leaked documents from the Department for Work and Pensions have shown that Universal Jobmatch is set to be scrapped – not only because it is full of fake and repeat job entries but also because it is too expensive. But the government is bound to its contract for another two years and is unlikely to try to release itself until the agreement (with a company called, appropriately, Monster) comes up for renewal. The plans have been revealed by The Guardian, after the documents were passed to the paper from an unnamed source. It seems there was no mention of the adverts for illegal j...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 17, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

War on Welfare Common’s Debate 27/02/2014
Originally posted on Disability in Business: WOW (War on Welfare Common’s Debate 27/02/2014)  The link to the War on Welfare petition that led to the debate in the House of Commons asking for an independent assessment of the impact of the Coalition’s welfare reforms (Please watch the slide show as it makes fascinating reading https://storify.com/public/templates/slideshow/index.html?src=//storify.com/CllrPaul4Cowick/27-02-14-wowpetition-wowfeb27#1) The full transcript of the Commons’ debate is below – it makes for an interesting read although it is lengthy, the opening part of the debate can be viewed on th...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 17, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Government Advisor Plots Two Tier NHS Waiting Lists For People In Work
Originally posted on the void: A shocking proposal from a so-called expert at the Department of Health has suggested that people in work should be given priority for treatment in the NHS. In a move which could hit pensioners, disabled people, lone parents and unemployed people, government advisor Dame Carol Black has said: “I personally think we should perhaps be more honest and debate more fully if we would prioritise such patients if it was a question of getting them back to work.”  In other words if you are currently without a job, for any reason, then forget about accessing healthcare as you are pushed ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 9, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The Rationale behind Poverty Street Media?
Originally posted on jaynelinney: Independent Voices today carries a piece discussing the 200 year tradition of writers and the well to do ’visiting’ the poor to see for themselves how we live; I suppose if my 19 Century great great…grandmother were able to access the articles and books scribed of these visits she may well have felt as I do – incensed. The difference is she most likely didn’t, indeed she would have been fortunate to be able to read, never mind have access to what was written. Today these journeys into poverty have become a sport; each time I read articles of yet another new TV ‘reality�...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 9, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Sanctioned for Working- and being honest about it!
Originally posted on SMILING CARCASS'S TWO-PENNETH: My son was recently offered a day’s work; just over two weeks ago, it happens and on his signing day. The offer was made out of office hours, with no opportunity to notify the benefits agency, but he took the day’s work and notified the benefits agency at the earliest opportunity- the next day that he had done the day’s work and that this was the reason he was unable to attend the benefits office to sign on at his regular day and time. He was interviewed and signed on that day. Yesterday, his normal payday, his benefits had not been paid. When he telephon...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 9, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

TV3 Documentary
Originally posted on Leonie's Blog: On Monday 10th February, TV3 will air a documentary covering the events surrounding the death of my son Shane and his killing of Sebastian Creane. We decided to participate in this programme because it provided others with the opportunity to hear about the role that SSRI antidepressants played in the tragic deaths of both young men. This is information we wish we had known before Shane’s death and which we believe may prevent other families suffering the pain we all now live with. Vincent Browne and Lisa-Marie Berry (the Producer) assured us that the programme will be ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 8, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Dementia = Loneliness
Originally posted on Creating life with words: Inspiration, love and truth: I am currently wrestling with a deep sense of loneliness. In my search for wisdom, I have just re-read a Wakley Prize Essay, Dr Ishani Kar-Purkayastha’s moving essay   An epidemic of loneliness  and it was a timely reminder of the problems most recalcitrant to our research based and outcome-driven health care providers. Loneliness involves both social and emotional components – aloneness and sadness . It relates to the subjective difference between people’s expectations of relationships and their social experience. It is a resp...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The questions that Sunday Politics WON’T ask Iain Duncan Smith
Originally posted on Vox Political: Like it or not, politics in the UK is far more nuanced today than it has been at any time in the last 100 years. How can it be anything else? All the main political parties are trying to occupy the same, narrow, centre-right ground. Even so, one man has emerged as the pantomime villain of British politics: Iain Duncan Smith. View originalFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Why mental illness is on the rise in academia
Dark thoughts: why mental illness is on the rise in academia University staff battling anxiety, poor work-life balance and isolation aren’t finding the support they need…. http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2014/mar/06/mental-health-academics-growing-problem-pressure-university?CMP=fb_guFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

What political “ism” is this?
Originally posted on The Blog of Knitted Fog: A shocking proposal from a so-called expert at the Department of Health has suggested that people in work should be given priority for treatment in the NHS. In a move which could hit pensioners, disabled people, lone parents and unemployed people, government advisor Dame Carol Black has said: “I personally think we should perhaps be more honest and debate more fully if we would prioritise such patients if it was a question of getting them back to work.”  View originalFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

The nhs & the private sector: the two 2013 studies that the tories want you to forget
Originally posted on The Slog.: Even the IFS, Nuffield and the Competition Commission admit that there is precious little demand for private healthcare Last year, the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) and Nuffield Trust (part of the private health provider) issued a report on the relationship between the NHS and the private sector since 2000 – or thereabouts. It is a good and full report, but its interpretation is that of a neloliberal think tank (Margaret Thatcher was an early member of the IFS) and Nuffield which – despite its protestations of balance – does have an agenda. Given these factors, some of the ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Universal Jobmatch Still Riddled With Illegal Unpaid Work
Originally posted on the void: “Not paying the National Minimum Wage is illegal and if an employer breaks the law, government will take tough action,” “Anyone considered a worker under the law should be paid at least the minimum wage, whether they are an intern, or someone on work experience.” Employment Relations Minister Jo Swinson MP View originalFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 6, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs

Mary Ellen Copeland launches WRAP app – how cool is that! #MentalHealth
Mary Ellen Copeland and Peach Press are pleased to announce that the WRAP APP for iPhone® , iPad®, and Android™ are available from the App Store℠ and Google Play.        http://mentalhealthrecovery.com/store/product50.html?utm_source=MEC+03-04-14+&utm_campaign=MEC+03-05-14+Emessage&utm_medium=emailFiled under: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Tagged: Mary Ellen Copeland, Peach Press (Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy)
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 6, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Mary Ellen Copeland Peach Press Source Type: blogs