Promotion of Social Work and Social Care
The Social Care Strategic Network for Mental Health promotes and preserves the unique contributions of social work and social care, whilst working with local colleagues to ensure that integration delivers maximum benefits for service users. Practically this means identifying and working with others to resolve barriers to partnerships across local government and the NHS and ensuring the development of knowledge and skills to deliver mental health services informed by social care perspectives. The shared learning across the Network provides a ready source of potential solutions to challenges faced by members and their organisations. The predecessor to the Network (the Directors of Social Care Learning Set) has published various articles and written or contributed to publications on social care and social work.
The Directors of Social Care Learning Set was set up in May 2003, facilitated by Professor Peter Gilbert, with the support of the National Institute for Mental Health (England).
The Network regularly communicates with 43 senior colleagues who work at the interface of health and social care in mental health. 15 Trusts or Local Authorities have formally joined SCSN (MH).
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Benefits of membership:
- Access to peer support and learning from best practice
- Ability to exert collective influence in national policy development
- Networking with leaders in social care nationally
- Access to support in the production of articles for publication in peer reviewed journals
- Two learning sets per year
- Two business meetings per year, which include presentations of up-to-date-policy and theoretical ideas as well as practical sessions on implementation
- Residential - providing reflective time as well as intensive productivity
How to become a member
See the SCSN membership flyer here. This sets out the fees.
If you are interested in membership please email the Membership Secretary at scsnmh@aol.com. Alternatively call Ben Bano (07887 651117) or Ruth Allen (020 8682 5914).