The Future of Mental Health: a Vision for 2015

This policy paper sets out a radical but realistic agenda for mental health over the next 10 years.

It says that by 2015 mental wellbeing should be promoted in all schools. Employers should be able to compete to become ‘wellbeing workplaces’. Talking therapies should be available as a matter of routine when people need them along with advice on staying in work and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

The Future of Mental Health: A Vision for 2015 is published jointly by the Association of Directors of Social Services, the Local Government Association, the NHS Confederation and the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health (SCMH).

This will be the last policy paper published by the SCMH as it moves away from it’s original role of developing and implementing the National Service Framework for Mental Health and its equivalents in Scotland and England and focuses in two specific areas of work. The SCMH will be aiming to improve mental health services in prison and for people with mental health problems in custody. They will also aim to tackle unemployment among those with mental health problems and to see more people with mental health problems successfully supported within the workplace.

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The National Programme team would like to know what you think of The Future of Mental Health: A Vision for 2015. Drop us an email with your views to: wellscotland@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

Further Information

To find out more about the SCMH please visit their website at www.scmh.org.uk