Task poster
Equality Act
2010: to help
protect those with
mental health
disability not be
discriminated
against within the
work place and
when applying for
jobs1.
Future In Mind
Department of Health
want to aim to improve
mental health across
young people via
promotion, prevention by
2020. One of the main
focus of the document is
to tackle stigma and
improve attitudes
around mental illness2.What has time for change done?
They have used several
strategies:
- Local hubs with professionals to
give advise and promote anti
stigma and discrimination, inter- professional trust& respect.
- Social Marketing campaigns to
engage people who haven’t
experienced mental health illness
relevant to them and changing
attitudes and behaviours about mental health.
- Working alongside schools and
organisations to improve
knowledge, educating young
people about mental health. Also
carrying out workshops with
teachers to help create time for
change workshops within the schools.
- Provide resources for
professionals in the work place4.
What is time for change? A partnership lead by Mind and
Rethink Mental Health funded
by the Department of Health
and Social Care, Comic Relief
and National Lottery. It’s a
growing social movement
with the aim to change the
way that people think and act
about mental health problems
by working within communities,
work places and with young
people with the aim of trying to
change attitudes. The
partnership therefore showing
cultural continuity3 .
Outcomes Critical Evaluation
Unequal power relationships between service users and staff, reducing role clarity.
Staff burnout and structural discrimination affecting resources, no shared commitment.
Participation rate to gain figures not reliable
Study found an increase in discrimination towards those on welfare benefits
Have met the aims the partnership has set out to do so far, displaying successful independence of outcomes6
Conclusion Overall time for change has been slowly making a difference in educating about mental health. However, as a partnership it’s not working so well. It could be improve the negatives found in the study across staff and discrimination towards welfare benefits.
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References 1.Illness, R. and Illness, R. (2019). The Equality Act 2010. [online] Rethink.org. Available at: https://www.rethink.org/living-with-mental-illness/mental-health-laws/discrimination [Accessed 12 May 2019].
2.Future In Mind. (2013). England: gov.uk.
3.Time To Change. (2019). Time To Change: About Us. [online] Available at: https://www.time-to- change.org.uk/about-us [Accessed 12 May 2019].
4.Time To Change. (2019). Time To Change: What we do. [online] Available at: https://www.time-to- change.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do [Accessed 12 May 2019].
5.Time To Change. (2019). Our impact. [online] Available at: https://www.time-to- change.org.uk/home/about-us/our-impact [Accessed 12 May 2019].
6.Corker, E., Henderson, C. and Thornicroft, G. (2011). The Viewpoint discrimination survey - the extent of discrimination faced by mental health service users in England. Psychiatrische Praxis, 38(S 01).