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Work, volunteering, and mental illness
Advice and information |1 min read |Last updated: 14/10/2025
This section explains your options for finding work or volunteering opportunities. These things can be important for your mental health.
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Rethink Sahayak Asian Mental Health Helpline
Services and Groups |Last updated: 18/08/2025
WHO IS THE HELPLINE FOR? Our Sahayak Asianline telephone helpline offers a culturally sensitive listening and information service for the Asian community in Kent and West Sussex. The service is for anyone affected by mental health issues - whether they are service users, carers or friends and people affected by domestic abuse. When you call the helpline you can expect to be listened to, treated with dignity and respect, given emotional support and signposted to useful sources of information. WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK? Callers may speak to us in Asian languages (Gujarati, Punjabi, Hindu, and Urdu) or English. HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? Calls to our number are free and will not show up on your bill. WHEN ARE YOU OPEN? - Our helpline team will be available to support you Monday and Wednesday 4pm-7pm and Tuesday and Thursday 12noon to 3pm. IS THE SERVICE CONFIDENTIAL? - Our service is confidential. We do not pass on information except in exceptional circumstances, for example, if we feel there is a serious risk of harm to you or another person. This is because of our duty of care to you and others. If we need to break your confidentiality we will, where possible tell you and explain the reasons why.
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Rethink Mental Illness responds to appalling conditions at HMP Eastwood Park
1 min read |Last updated: 03/02/2023
An inspection of women's prison HMP Eastwood Park at the end of last year has found that women experiencing mental illness were being kept in appalling conditions. Responding to the inspection report, Jonathan Munro, Associate Director for Criminal Justice and Care Navigation at Rethink Mental Illness, said: “We are appalled to learn of the horrendous...
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How can we make sure the new Mental Health Act is fit for purpose?
Last updated: 29/10/2024
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Parliamentary Briefing - Social care announcements Sept 2021
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 20/06/2023
Parliamentary Briefing: The Future of Adult Social Care – Mental Health Overview We are pleased that the government has begun to rise to the significant challenges facing the social care sector. However, what has been announced so far does not represent the detailed vision for reforming social care that is so desperately needed. The government’s latest...
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Our thoughts on the government’s new Ten-Year Health Plan for the NHS
Last updated: 21/10/2024
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Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
1 min read |Last updated: 04/06/2025
Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) What is the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)? A patient safety incident is when something goes wrong in a patient’s care or treatment that causes them harm, or that has the potential to cause harm. The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework sets out our approach to responding to...
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Covid-19 and support in the community
Campaigns and policy |1 min read |Last updated: 10/02/2025
Severe Mental illness & Covid 19: Support in the community - social care, carers and peer support Report published 25 June 2020 by Jonathan Moore. Though clinical support is a vital component of care, people severely affected by mental illness need more than this to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. This objective cannot be achieved by medical...
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Privacy
1 min read |Last updated: 27/08/2025
Privacy Policy. Rethink Mental Illness takes great care to preserve your privacy and safeguard any personal details you provide to us, whether on this website or by another means. This policy explains how Rethink Mental Illness uses your personal information, how we preserve your privacy and safeguard your information and details your rights regarding...
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