Mental health: Government Policy

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• Ministerial Advisory Group on the Mental Health Strategy
  This group leads on overseeing the implementation of "No health without mental health'. The agendas and papers from these meetings can be downloaded from the Department of Health website.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• School behaviour advice and guidance
  This gives links to advice and guidance for governing bodies, headteachers, school staff and parents on behaviour and discipline in schools.
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Baseline spending estimates for the new NHS and Public Health commissioning architecture
  Estimates of how 2010-11 spend by primary care trusts (PCTs) would be deployed under the new commissioning arrangements proposed in the Health and Social Care bill. The baseline estimates, which have been uplifted to 201 ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Healthy lives, healthy people: improving outcomes and supporting transparency. A public health outcomes framework for England, 2013-2016
  This framework sets out what government want to achieve in a new and reformed public health system. It concentrates on two high-level outcomes to be achieved across the public health system. These are: increased healthy ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• DfE and ACPO drug advice for schools
  The Department and the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) have jointly produced this publication. It's non-statutory and helps answer some of the most common questions raised by school staff in this area. The ad ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Transforming your care: a review of health and social care in Northern Ireland
  This report provides a strategic assessment across all aspects of health and social care services, examining the present quality and accessibility of services, and the extent to which the needs of patients, clients, care ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• Liberating the NHS: developing the healthcare workforce - from design to delivery
  The policy framework for a new approach to workforce planning and the education and training of the health workforce.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2012
  
  
• A call to action - one year on: health visitor implementation progress report
  In October 2010, the Government set out its vision for the future of health visiting in England - including a commitment to increase the workforce by 4,200 by 2015, and a new service model for the profession. This report ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Public health in local government: factsheets
  These factsheets detail the roles and responsibilities of local authorities in the new public health system, including local authority public health functions, the role of the Director of Public Health and commissioning ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Public Health England's operating model
  These factsheets detail the design of Public Health England. The new public health system, which is due to be implemented from April 2013, will see local authorities take the lead for improving health, coordinating local ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Positive for Youth: a new approach to cross-government policy for young people aged 13-19
  The statement brings together for the first time all of the Government’s policies for young people aged 13 to 19. It therefore covers a wide range of issues – from education and youth services, to health, crime, housing ...
  
  Publisher: Department for Education (DfE)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• NHS Outcomes Framework 2012-13
  This document sets out the changes that have been made to the indicators in the NHS Outcomes Framework and is designed to help NHS organisations to start to think through what to focus on outcomes means in practical term ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2012-13
  This document outlines the business and planning arrangements for the NHS in 2012/13.
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• A framework for technology enhanced learning
  This framework provides guidance to help commissioners and providers of health and social care deliver high quality, cost effective education, training and continuous development to the workforce for the benefit of patie ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2011
  
  
• Ending gang and youth violence: cross-government report
  The report looks into the scale of the problem of gang and youth violence, analyses its causes, and identifies what can be done by government and other agencies to stop the violence and to turn around the lives of those ...
  
  Publisher: Home Office
  Published Date: 2011