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Children’s mental health threatened by financial and other pressures
Children’s mental health is being jeopardised by financial pressures on parents, overcrowded housing, and lack of safe green spaces, says new research by Centre for Mental Health. Commissioned by Impact on Urban
Health, Growing stronger together set out to better understand behavioural problems in children – among the most common childhood mental health problems. It finds that while parents are commonly blamed for their child’s behavioural challenges, these are often caused by exposure to multiple risks – such as poverty and financial strain, racism, and inadequate, overcrowded housing. Although behavioural problems during childhood are ‘normal and often fleeting’, the report highlights that some children and young people ‘can get stuck in challenging patterns of behaviour which affect their social, emotional, and learning outcomes’. This in turn puts a child at risk of poorer outcomes, including school exclusion. Growing stronger together heard from
parents in the London boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark highlighting the struggle to support their children’s wellbeing while working long hours to make ends meet, or living in overcrowded, insecure housing. The report calls for national Government
to commit to ending child poverty through a Child Poverty Act, and an increase in local council funding to invest in parenting programmes and ‘address the housing crisis.’ It says councils should develop an
North View to be England’s first ‘all- electric’ mental health unit
North View, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)’s new mental health unit currently under construction in North Manchester, will be England’s first all-electric mental health unit when it opens in 2024, the Trust says. GMMH is investing £105.9 m in the
overarching strategy to support children and families impacted by trauma presenting with behavioural problems. Kadra Abdinasir, associate director, Policy
at Centre for Mental Health (pictured), said: “Children’s mental health is getting progressively poorer in the UK. Our report shows children’s healthy social development depends on having their basic needs met – enough money to live on, a safe, warm home, and loving relationships. For families facing deprivation, destitution, and discrimination, it’s a struggle to provide these and give their children a mentally healthy start in life. When children then struggle in school, they get labelled as having behavioural problems, punished, and sometimes excluded, all of which makes things worse. This urgently needs to change. Every child deserves a mentally healthy start in life, and a fair chance in school.”
Flexible access control solution launched
Abloy UK has launched CLIQ Local Manager (CLM) Remote, enabling users to update key authorisations and make changes to schedules via wall programming devices, offering a flexible access control solution. CLIQ Local Manager is a locally installed
software system used for the day-to-day management of CLIQ master key systems. Abloy UK explained: “CLIQ Local Manager allows system managers to perform a variety of tasks based on the specific needs of their environment, including managing access rights of user keys locally via desktop programming devices, and now, also wall programming devices.” Tony Barnes, Business
Development manager – Digital Key Systems, at Abloy UK, explained:
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“The new addition of the ‘Remote’ functionality to CLM offers enhanced flexibility for administrators and key users, as it decentralises access rights updates. Short-term changes to access rights and schedules can be implemented much more quickly, especially if several wall programming devices are installed across a premises. However, a high level of security is maintained through regular revalidation, minimising the risk of lost keys for peace of mind.” Abloy UK says CLIQ Local Manager
software can be installed on a standard Windows PC, ‘offering flexibility and easy operation, with everything you need to run programmable key access control for a business’. It said: “The user-friendly interface offers the ability to add or amend users and change the access rights of CLIQ keys with the companion programming device. System managers can limit access according to 32 programmable time slots, with key audit trails available.”
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construction of the new adult mental health inpatient unit to replace Park House, the current mental health unit on the North Manchester General Hospital site. Work started in August 2022, and it is anticipated the new unit will be built and operational in 2024. Features will include spacious single bedrooms – each with a private en-suite shower room, indoor activity areas, meeting rooms for family visiting, multiple gardens, therapeutic artwork spaces,, and a café, plus a purpose-built PICU, eight adult acute wards, and a treatment suite. The building has been specifically designed to minimise its environmental impact, with features including: l Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels across the building, with energy use monitored and controlled via ‘intelligent’ building management systems.
l LED lighting throughout. l Hot water produced via solar thermal technology and air source heat pumps.
l Heating from air source heat pumps, which will supply underfloor heating and radiant panels.
l Ventilation through a combination of natural ventilation wherever possible, and chilled water from reverse cycle air source heat pumps, which will be sent to air-conditioning systems to maintain a comfortable temperature. This has been developed through virtual modelling to maximise the efficiency.
l Insulation using sustainable materials to prevent heat loss and reduce energy use.
GMMH is working with its Principal Supply Chain Partner, Integrated Health Projects, to deliver the project.
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