Mental Health

Voluntary Sector

• Revolving Doors
  UK Charity working with people in society who have mental health problems and histories of offending
• Rethink
  A charity working with people who have severe mental health illnesses including schizophrenia
• SANE
  National mental health helpline and charity
• MIND
  Mental health charity involved in campaigning, service user support and education
• Samaritans
  A 24 hour helpline and specific areas of work supporting prisioners and people who self-harm
• Counselling directory
  Find a counsellor or psychotherapist near you. Counselling Directory only lists qualified/registered counsellors and psychotherapists.

Reform of Mental Health Law

• Mental Health Alliance
  A coalition of 60 organisations to focus campaigning on reform of the 1983 Mental Health Act
• Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill
  Report and evidence of parliamentary scrutiny of the draft mental health bill. It also contains the link to the text of the bill

Government Sites

• Department of Health
  This will take you directly to information about mental health on the Department of Health website