Health and Care

The Samaritans, with their partners in the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance Suicide Prevention Consortium, have been exploring the relationship between alcohol and suicide for LGBTQ+ people in England in their own words. They heard that people’s experiences of alcohol, suicide and self-harm are highly […]

Two years on from an inquiry demonstrating evidence of a lack of respect for philosophical and religious beliefs in care settings, people in the UK are still being fed meals that go against their deeply held beliefs or practices. Meanwhile, a systematic literature review into […]

The Department for Education are holding three consultations relating to the reform of Children’s Social Care. The three separate consultations are: Stable Homes Built on Love: Implementation Strategy and Consultation – backed by £200million over the next two years, this strategy lays the foundations for […]

The British Red Cross have published their latest report, Offline and Isolated: how digital exclusion impacts access to healthcare for people seeking asylum in England, undertaken as part of the VSCE Health and Wellbeing Alliance. The report finds that people seeking asylum in England are […]

The Homeless Health Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have developed and published Suicide Prevention and Postvention resources. They have created a suite of tools to support VCSE organisations including: Printable Card for people experiencing suicidal thoughts Guides for staff on how […]

Locality, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, have launched a new report, Space to Thrive. It presents their new findings and recommendations on the role of community spaces in supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. The report highlights: […]

National Voices, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an online national conference to bring together primary care leaders and teams, voluntary sector organisations and people with lived experience to discuss priority actions for the future of primary care. The focus of […]

The Maternity Consortium, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding a learning event to share key findings from their project focusing in depth on understanding women’s lived experiences of children’s social care involvement during pregnancy and the first two years of their […]

National Voices, part of the VCSE Health & Wellbeing Alliance, are holding an online session on The Unequal Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has exposed significant yet longstanding inequalities in our society that require us to stop, reflect, learn and to fundamentally change […]

V for Life and a coalition of organisations and individuals are taking action by launching the Special Dietary Network in Parliament on 23 May 2023, bringing together representatives from different faiths and beliefs who have an interest in making sure that their diets and identities […]