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Welcome to the National Social Inclusion Programme Website

This site is hosted by the Inclusion Institute at the International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion at the University of Central Lancashire. It is currently being developed to allow for continuing access to the resources and materials produced by NSIP as updated by the work of the Inclusion Institute and its partners

About the National Social Inclusion Programme

'Vision and Progress: Social Inclusion and Mental Health'

The National Social Inclusion Programme (NSIP) launched its ‘Vision and Progress’ report on 12th March, 2009.

The report sets out the achievements of NSIP since the 2004 Mental Health and Social Exclusion report by the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU). It reviews the last four years in light of our activity at national, regional and local level. It highlights the progress that has been made across the statutory and non-statutory sectors and highlights the additional value of work beyond our formal remit; work that has sought to reach out to non-traditional services and partners to champion the social inclusion agenda in sometimes unfamiliar areas.

It also provides an assessment of the remaining and continuing challenges that need to be addressed for improved outcomes for people with mental health problems. This is based on feedback from national and regional social inclusion leads across mental health and health services, local authorities and regional bodies, as well as information gathered through an analysis of progress and gaps with provider organisations at a local level.

The report is intended to be a further resource for policy makers, regional agencies and services to ensure that this important work is sustained and developed in the future.

To download the 'Vision and Progress: Social Inclusion and Mental Health', please click here

To download the 'Vision and Progress: Social Inclusion and Mental Health' press notice, please click here

4th Annual Review

In our fourth year, we review the programme’s key achievements across the range of our activity. We also preview the ‘Social Inclusion and Mental Health: Vision and Progress’ report due for publication late February 2009. This sets out the achievements of the programme in the context of an assessment both of future challenges and of sustainability for work to date.

To download our 4th Annual Review please click here

Mental Health and Social Exclusion Report

The Social Exclusion Unit published its report ‘Mental Health and Social Exclusion’ in June 2004. The report's immediate impact is directed at improving the lives of people with mental health problems by reducing or eliminating barriers to employment and wider social participation. However it has great potential also to impact significantly across service areas, client populations and on the health, engagement and economic position of wider communities.

The National Social Inclusion Programme (NSIP) has brought together the work of government departments and other organisations in a concerted effort to challenge attitudes, to enable people to fulfil their aspirations and to significantly improve opportunities and outcomes for people with mental health problems.

The Report's Actions Points

The report sets out a 27-point action plan to bring together the work of government departments and other organisations in a concerted effort to challenge attitudes, enable people to fulfil their aspirations, and significantly improve opportunities and outcomes for this excluded group.

Action falls into six categories:

Stigma and discrimination - a sustained programme to challenge negative attitudes and promote awareness of people's rights;
The role of health and social care in tackling social exclusion - implementing evidence-based practice in vocational services and enabling reintegration into the community;
Employment - giving people with mental health problems a real chance of sustained paid work reflecting their skills and experience;
Taking part in the local community - enabling people to lead fulfilling lives the way they choose;
Getting the basics right - access to decent homes, financial advice and transport; and
Making it happen - clear arrangements for leading this programme and maintaining momentum.

Following on from the report, a further publication of 12 fact sheets ‘Action on Mental Health’ was launched in October 2004 to offer practical tips to improve opportunities and outcomes for people.

The work of NSIP has been reinforced by Reaching Out: An Action Plan on Social Inclusion which was published in late 2006 by the Prime Ministers Strategy Unit. This report focuses on adults who are the most socially excluded and identifies actions to build and deliver evidence-based models that will improve employment and education opportunities while supporting anti-stigma employer-based programmes such as Shift. NSIP, in particular, will focus on the development of dedicated regional teams to provide further support for the implementation of good practice in employment.

Broadened Social Inclusion Outcomes Framework

This framework aims to help commissioners and providers to monitor, evaluate and measure the effectiveness of services for working-age adults with mental heath problems.

This framework was initially designed to be used in mental health day services and has been broadened to apply to mental health services in general, particularly those which are seeking to support people to become more socially included. For example, many community bases mental health services, including outreach, employment and housing support services are also working to support people in establishing or maintaining many of these areas of included living.

To download a copy of the original Day Services Outcomes Framework 2007 please click here.

Secretary of State Alan Johnson launches NSIP arts training package

From left to right: Vicky Price, Mark Foster, Secretary of State Alan Johnson and Theo Stickley at the launch of “Open to All”

This Website

To navigate around this site please use the menu at the top, which will take you back to this Home page, to the main work areas of NSIP, to information on local inclusion in your region, to good practice examples, to our resource page which contains related policy, NSIP publications and other information and finally to the list of NSIP's affiliaties. On each of these pages there is a menu to the left hand side of the screen that will take you to each section within that page.

Also on this website we have our Bridge Building database, accessible from anywhere within the site from the box on the right hand side, our 'What's New' section, also accessible from anywhere within the site from the top box on the right hand side and our Forum, accessible from the Home Page in the left hand menu.

To search the website there is a freetext search box in at the top right hand side of each page.

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