Job coaches for mentally ill in hospital settings - BBC

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  • NOTok2024
    NOTok2024 Community member Posts: 73 Connected

    If Things Don't Change i can see the Suicide Rates going Up 😢
    I Suffer from Depression, anxiety & Panic attacks. I Don't remember a time when i felt 100% Well. Fed up feeling like rubbish & tired 24/7.

    I been to that DARK PLACE. And with everything being mentally thrown at us at the moment, i feel myself slipping back there :(

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Community member Posts: 1,213 Trailblazing
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    Oh I love vault of horror 1408 watched that so many times and always notice something different also used to watch hammer house of horror Tales of unexpected Tales from the crypt

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Community member Posts: 1,213 Trailblazing

    1408 has 3 endings two of those are included on the German blu ray

    anyway better get the thread back on track

  • Meg24
    Meg24 Community member Posts: 323 Pioneering

    Can someone please point me to evidence that current support group won't be thrown off LCWRA? I was under the impression that that was a misunderstanding that was quickly corrected after it was misreported at the time. I'm pretty sure that they reworded it as "unless they have a change in circumstances or a reassessment" which as we know, happens to all of us eventually. Personally I haven't had a WCA since 2018, I've no doubt that when I'm migrated to UC I'll be in line for one, if it's after April, it will be under the new rules? Which as I'm under the substantial risk rules, would mean me being thrown into the LCW group, with all the meetings, work prep and sanctions that go with it. I won't be able to do that. I hope Ellen Clifford is successful, many of us really need her to be.

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Community member Posts: 1,213 Trailblazing

    I'm sure she will be, she's a very determined woman

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 754 Championing

    Thanks for sharing the assembly’s views! I agree that the job coaching service sounds promising, especially since it’s open to outpatients receiving talking therapies. It’s great to see such initiatives being trialled at a well regarded institution like Slam.

    While I recognise that these initiatives may not be suitable for everyone, I believe some members could find this approach very helpful in their quest to re-enter the workplace. It’s important that we support each other in finding the right paths for our individual needs.

    Out of interest, what is your assembly currently focusing on, and who is organising it?

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering
  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    Is there any date for her to take them to court oh god I'm panicking now thought be pk as selfish as it sounds

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    Can i ask how do you know if your under substantial risk rule ? I have lwcra and only been assessed twice in or 3 times in 13 years how do you know April has it all been finalised I did read will be reassessed if under substantial risk rule ???

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,094 Championing

    Good question! You will be reassessed under the rules introduced by the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    What does that entail what will the question be changed to???

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    So what will be exceptional circumstances for lwcra now I understand saying people will lose 400 something a month oh ffs from thinking be ok to realising this

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Community member Posts: 1,213 Trailblazing

    Slipped me by too, wouldn't mind an update on what the sneaky rats have done now

  • Catherine21
    Catherine21 Community member Posts: 1,489 Pioneering

    I want to know what exceptional circumstances is ?? Oh here we go again

  • MissMel
    MissMel Community member Posts: 93 Empowering


    I think she will be reigned in. As many have alluded to the fact that it seems a fundamental screw is lose with this one. If it gets too much for you, I am glad you have your Mum for back up.

  • Nightcity
    Nightcity Community member Posts: 1,213 Trailblazing

    thanks and you're likely right luck pushing doesn't even cover it.

  • MissMel
    MissMel Community member Posts: 93 Empowering

    I am a bit experienced with these things. I read the funding was £64 million and it was started in a few MH hospitals and has been a success. How these type of projects usually start out and how its rolled out nationally, is sometimes different. It has started out voluntary, with specialist well trained disability aware work coaches, selected patients who are in a good place, looking to work, probably with some good paid job opportunities lined up for them and access to work support in place and everything has run smoothly. Now if could be rolled out nationally like this, great but it could be rolled out with:

    Generic, uncaring work coaches who have no understanding of disability let alone MH challenges. No longer voluntary join or lose out financially, no counselling support involved, no jobs lined up but pressure to find work yourself quickly, Access to work support assessment only after the current 7 month wait time, and it's another story.

    Need to see how it will be rolled out. These for profit organisations have a way of always having a success to begin with at the trial stages and spending more to ensure this and carefully selecting the claimants. When they roll out, cost saving techniques are used. I hope I am proved wrong.

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Community member, Scope Member Posts: 2,094 Championing
    edited 12:37

    Reeves is the smooth, unflappable accountant. Half the Cabinet has worked in DWP we should remember (maybe a little exaggeration)

    Kendall is a *desperate woman, yes! She practically wrote the Labour disability manifesto for General Election 2015 herself! With a bit of help from that nice man Stephen Timms. Both apologists for a dishonourable gentleman whose name I'd rather not mention.

    *desperate not to be found out

  • ElizaRose
    ElizaRose Community member Posts: 40 Contributor

    I am panicking now too. Have had to stay in bed most of the week as quite unwell. I really don't think I can take anymore.