A Life in the Day: Volume 12 Issue 4

Editorial

Adam Pozner

Mental illness: A parent's perspective

Lillian Jackson

Lillian Jackson details her daughter's experience of illness, and her own trials and tribulations as a carer in finding her daughter the support that she needs.

What's in a name? The IPS approach to supported employment

Jenni Bacon, Helen Lockett, Miles Rinaldi

What does it mean to say there's an evidence base for supported employment? One approach, known as Individual placement and support or IPS for short, has been extensively…

Service users: Individualised involvement or collective action?

Peter Beresford

This is an important time to be taking stock of mental health service user/survivor campaigning and involvement. Big changes are taking place in social care. These will also…

Don't leave people behind

Peter Bates

The modernisation of day services presents many challenges. One key challenge is not to abandon the people that these have traditionally supported. Peter Bates from the National…

Evening the odds: Employment support, mental health and BME communities

Patience Seebohm

The Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has recently published a briefing paper on employment support for people from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities who have mental…

Spirituality, the heart of caring

Martin Aaron

‘We are all born into a particular tribal culture. Beginning life as part of a tribe, we become connected to our tribal consciousness and collective willpower by absorbing its…

Enterprise, employment and empowerment: The social firm sector's mission

Sally Reynolds

Sally Reynolds, Chief Executive of Social Firms UK, outlines the latest developments in the social firm sector's mission to provide real jobs for people with severe disadvantages.

Policy and action

Zoe Robinson

Zoe Robinson reports on recent and forthcoming developments within the National Social Inclusion Programme.

Index

This index covers all issues between February 2005 (Volume 9, Issue 1) and November 2008 (Volume 12, Issue 4). Numbers in bold refer to yolume, numbers in brackets refer to issue…