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Community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities: final handbook

Published: 07/12/2006

As part of the Government’s intention to develop and expand the MH workforce and to help improve the care and treatment of people with a mental illness from BME communities, two pieces of guidance have already been published to help support the introduction of CDWs. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an update on the new CDW Interim Milestone and to answer those issues that need clarification in the light of experience in introducing and developing the CDW workforce. It does not replace or supersede the earlier guidance, rather it amplifies those “nitty gritty” points of detail which have arisen in practice.

• Mental health policy implementation guide: community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities: final handbook

Mental health: community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities

Published: 05/10/2006

PCTs' target for recruitment of community development workers for black and minority ethnic mental health has been revised and firmer performance management arrangements put in place. The Minister of State, Duncan Selbie and Louis Appleby have written jointly to SHA chief executives to explain the change.

• Community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities

Community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities: education and training - supplementary guidance

Published: 01/10/2005

The purpose of this supplementary guidance is to provide a framework to deliver appropriate education and training for community development workers for black and minority ethnic communities, that recognises the principles of “Shifting the Balance of Power” and the requirement to take account of local needs and local decision making.

• Education and training - supplementary guidance

Community development: workers for black and minority ethnic communities - interim guidance

Published: 01/12/2004

The purpose of this interim guidance is to provide a framework for local health and social care systems to introduce community development workers into the mental health workforce.

• Interim guidance

Count Me In: Mental health and ethnicity census

The purpose of the census project is to evaluate mental health and learning disability services from the perspective of black and minority ethnic people; to collect accurate information on a range of patient characteristics including ethnicity, language and religion; and to help NHS and independent healthcare organisations who provide mental health and learning disability services ensure that services are culturally relevant and appropriate.

• Count Me In (opens new window)

Delivering race equality in mental health care

Published: 11/02/2005

This document combines (a) a five-year action plan for reducing inequalities in Black and minority ethnic patients' access to, experience of, and outcomes from mental health services; and (b) the Government response to the recommendations made by the inquiry into the death of David Bennett.

• Delivering race equality in mental health care: An action plan for reform inside and outside services and the Government's response to the Independent inquiry into the death of David Bennett
• Delivering race equality in mental health care: a summary - September 2005

Inside Outside

Published: 01/03/2003

This report is part of the Department's response to the recognition in the Mental Health National Service Framework, launched in September 1999, that services were not adequately meeting the needs of black and minority ethnic service users and that communities lacked confidence inmental health services.

• Inside Outside: Improving mental health services for black and minority ethnic communities in England

Engaging and Changing: developing effective policies for the care and treatment of Black and minority ethnic detained patients

This document provides guidance material in relation to the development of policies concerning the care and treatment of Black and minority ethnic detained patients in the areas of ethnic monitoring, racial harrassment, the use of interpreters and the provision of culturally appropriate care and staff training.

• Engaging and Changing, on the NIMHE website (opens new window)