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Originally posted on The Not So Big Society:
Here’s a bit further about Palace Gate Counselling Service (also known as Phoenix Counselling) in Exeter. As I
commented last week
, a long, bizarre post appeared on their blog. They state they are involved in a bitter dispute with two therapists who are accusing them of running a “therapeutic cult”. According to their director Lindsey Talbott, Palace Gate have been reported to a slew of agencies, including the police, Adult Safeguarding, the Employment Tribunal Service and the Advertising Standards Authority.
To date no findings of misconduct have been made against P...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 4, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
MP Calls on Government to Launch Impact Assessment on Welfare Reform
Originally posted on Dame Anne Begg MP:
During a Backbench debate on Welfare Reform, Dame Anne Begg MP called on the government to launch a cumulative impact assessment on their reforms to the welfare system which are unfairly targeting people with disabilities. The Back Bench Committee allocated time for this debate after a WOW petition was signed by over 100,000 people.
As Chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, Dame Anne has continually called for the government to carry out a full impact assessment of welfare reform to show the effect they are having on people with disabilities.
Dame Anne said
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 4, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Mental health units ‘are heading for a Mid Staffs scandal’, warns senior psychiatrist
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/02/sue-bailey-mental-health-staffsFiled 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 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
The limits of child psychiatry
Originally posted on The Not So Big Society:
This morning I read an article which I mostly agreed with, but contained a brief snippet that irritated me. Sean Duggan in the Guardian
rightly points out
that mental health services are suffering from a crisis of under-investment. It’s all very well for politicians to talk about “parity of esteem” for mental health with physical health, but that simply isn’t translating into services on the ground. Services are being slashed to the bone, with vulnerable people being left to sink or swim, and sadly, too many them sink and drown. Duggan is entirely correct to say that...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
A new low for the UK: disabled man starves to death
Quinonostante:Stunned but not surprised – horrific
Originally posted on Pride's Purge:
(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
A severely disabled and sick man – who had his benefits stopped after ATOS found he was ‘fit’ for work – has died of malnutrition.
Mark Wood’s GP said if either ATOS or the Department for Work and Pensions had contacted him he would have said in his professional opinion Mr Wood was not fit for work.
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 - February 28, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
#Broadmoor Hospital: Inside a Victorian ‘lunatic asylum’ – worth a watch
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26335033Filed 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 - February 28, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
A Truly Chlling Move: Part Time Workers To Face Housing Benefit Sanctions DWP Confirms
Quinonostante:You’re kidding…
Originally posted on the void:
In breath-takingly savage news, it has been reported that the DWP plans to stop Housing Benefit payments to low paid part time workers if they fail to carry out ‘work related activity’.
When Universal Credit is finally introduced, those earning less than the equivalent of the minimum wage for 35 hours a week will be forced to constantly look for more or better paid work to qualify for in-work benefits such as Tax Credits and Housing Benefit. Part time workers could face being sent on workfare in the hours they are not at work and will ha...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 28, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Exeter counselling service condemns “cult” allegations
Originally posted on The Not So Big Society:
This is odd. An Exeter-based counselling firm has published a
lengthy blog post
claiming to be under attack by certain nefarious individuals who have apparently accused them of running a “therapeutic cult.”
The firm in question is called Palace Gate Counselling Service. They have a very professional-looking website, as well as a blog which has a fair amount of somewhat New Agey content. The directors are John Clapham (who also runs Taunton Counselling Service and Phoenix Counselling Services) and Lindsey Talbott, who seems to be writing most of the blog content.
Ta...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 28, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Homes Not Jails: Sleeping Rough Is Not A Crime – Protest Tomorrow 26th February!
Originally posted on the void:
With Iain Duncan Smith’s bungled welfare reforms driving many of the lowest income Londoners from their homes, the clown Mayor of London is ensuring that even the streets are not safe for those being socially cleansed from the capital.
A new policing operation in six London boroughs will treat homeless people like criminals with arrests, harassment and even destruction of personal property to be inflicted on those who cannot afford a home.
A protest against this obscene measure has been called outside the Mayor’s Question Time tomorrow Wednesday 26th February at 10am, details b...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 25, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Stop MPs Voting on Welfare – when they receive Housing Benefit!
Originally posted on jaynelinney:
The National Housing Benefit budget has been cut drastically in the past 3 years, particularly via the Bedroom Tax & the Benefit Cap and the Government persist in telling the Country it is the fault of those claiming.
Yet yesterday The Mirror reported, Richard Benyon, apparently the UKs wealthiest MP receiving £625K a year from the State in Housing Benefit, this is “despite blasting the ‘something for nothing’ welfare state; he’s not alone either fellow Tories, Earl Cadogan, Sir Richard Drax and Lord Cavendish between them picked up a total of £227,170 last yearn and An...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 25, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Claimants Tricked Out of Benefits, Says Jobcentre Whistleblower
Originally posted on Beastrabban\'s Weblog:
This is another video from the
Guardian’s
Youtube channel. It’s an expose of how the DWP has set targets to get people thrown off Jobseekers’ Allowance. These revelations are made by a whistleblower, whose face is naturally shadowed and voice disguised. He states that there is competition between departments and offices to have the most people thrown off benefits. According to the Jobcentre employee, the staff have two option available for getting someone off benefits: either find them a job, ‘which is really difficult’, or have them thrown off benefits ‘which is ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 24, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Something is missing
Originally posted on Busy Mind Thinking:
Chisel in hand
He brings life to stone
No model in mind
No photo to reference
She is the eyes of one
The smile of another
The figure of yet another
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
The End is Nigh
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Bedroom tax scandal wrongly charged to 40,000 council tenants – and Iain Duncan Smith is ‘in denial’
Originally posted on Benefit tales:
That is already four times more than the amount whom the Work and Pensions Secretary had predicted would be hit by his failure to close a housing rules loophole
Bungling Bedroom Tax villain Iain Duncan Smith has been accused of being “in denial” over his mishandling of the hated levy.
The attack on him came as the number of council tenants wrongly penalised in the scandal headed towards a shocking 40,000. Results from 175 of Britain’s 346 local authorities now show that 19,140 homes had the cruel charge slapped on illegally.
That is already four times more than the 5,00...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
Benefit Sanctions briefing, on DWP stats release of 19 Feb 2014 by David.Webster@glasgow.ac.uk
Originally posted on www.refuted.org.uk:
Key points from the new statistics
Highest numbers and rates of sanctions to date
Total JSA plus ESA sanctions in the year to 30 September 2013 were 897,690. This is the highest for any 12-month period since JSA was introduced in 1996. (Figure 1)
The number of JSA sanctions in the year to 30 September 2013 was 874,850, the highest since JSA was introduced in 1996. It compares with 500,000 in the year to 30 April 2010, the last month of the previous Labour government. (Figure 1)
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Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - February 23, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Quinonostante Tags: Mental Health, The News & Policies. Source Type: blogs
