Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network
Aims of Network
The Parental Mental Health and Child Welfare Network aims to improve the lives of children by becoming the recognised source of expertise on mental health in families affected by parental mental ill-health, through training, good practice guidance, research and publications
The Network is led by a steering group of representatives from leading mental health, family, children's and carers’ organisations and networks as well as service users who are parents. It is coordinated by the Social Perspectives Network and supported by the Department for Education. We aim to involve service users and carers in every aspect of the Network development and evaluation to make sure that the Network's activities are user-focused.
Membership of the Network is free. Join here
News
Munro review of children’s social work and child protection
The Munro review of children’s social work and child prtection practice is a key opportunity to bolster confidence in the social work profession. Although the formal date for submitting evidence to the review has passed, the team have assured us they will still consider evidence submitted at this time. They are particularly looking for examples of identifying and helping children in need, especially responsibility-sharing across agencies; strategies for assisting skills of social workers; shared learning that counteracts any leanings towards a blame culture; and efforts to improve transparency that could increase public confidence in safeguarding.
So if you have innovative examples of good practice, how they were made possible and what obstacles had to be overcome, submit them to the review without delay. View the guidance on submitting examples (PDF)
and click here for a child-friendly version of the purpose of the review and how to submit evidence via the Childrens’ Commissioner.
SCIE is submitting evidence to the review and, in addition to individual agency responses, the Network will compile and submit any evidence sent to us from Network members by the end of August.
SCIE Social Care TV and Parental mental health and child welfare
Three new films bringing to life stories of families experiencing problems relating to mental health difficulties. For a brief resume of the films follow this link
To view the films visit Social Care TV.
SCIE Good Practice Framework
SCIE’s new Good Practice Framework is an easy-to-use way of sharing practice ideas and outcomes with visitors to the website. This web resource is a new way to record and share information about what providers find works in social care. The Good Practice Framework also allows you to benefit from other people’s examples. The much-loved PMHCW examples of Building Bridges and the Greenwich CAPE Project are already up there. To submit your own example of good practice for consideration, and to find practice examples,
Visit the Good Practice Framework website
Living with Personality Disorder - Supporting Better Parenting
We do not know everything about Personality Disorders and how they affect the lives of people who live with label and those they interact with. What we do know is that individuals with the diagnosis and those close to them have for many years lived in a cycle of rejection. This rejection is felt at a very personal and damaging level for individuals and their families.
During 2009 the Network held two study days to explore the realities of living with personality disorders, with a view to supporting better parenting. This report Living with Personality Disorder - Supporting Better Parenting represents the output from both days combined.
