Hafal’s Autumn Conference shows the Road to Recovery

Hafal welcomed visitors from across the country – including the Welsh Assembly’s new Carers’ Champion and Deputy Health Minister Gwenda Thomas AM – to Llandrindod Wells this week for the charity’s 2007 Autumn Recovery Conference…

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Keeping the Family in Mind

Children’s charity Barnardo’s has re-launched its award-winning resource pack for practitioners working with children whose parents are experiencing mental illness…

Conference brings North Wales prison plan into focus

UK Government Justice Minister David Hanson spoke this week at a conference held in Llandudno to discuss plans to create a new prison in North Wales…

Mental Health Act – race equality assessment was “inadequate”

A new report by the Commission for Race Equality (CRE) claims that the Department of Health failed to conduct an adequate assessment of the potential disproportionate impact on black and minority ethnic people of the new Mental Health Act…

Report reveals hospital detention death toll

Forty-one people died by suicide while detained in hospitals in England and Wales under the Mental Health Act last year, according to the first annual report from the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody…

Help for carers in changing times

If you have been the unpaid carer of an ill relative or friend for some time but are now at the end of your caring role – perhaps due to the death of your loved one – a new guide has been published this week to help you through this significant change in your life.