Minds under pressure
Mental health, homelessness and the law.
- Level
- Bitesize
- Learning time
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Where
- Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage
- Price
- £39
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Read the full terms
Certificate of Completion
Overview and Outcomes.
Overview
This module explores the two-way relationship between mental health and homelessness, and the cycle in which mind and home can pull each other down, with every stage a chance to step in. It covers what people may be living with, the Office for National Statistics estimates of deaths of people experiencing homelessness, Samaritans safe messaging guidance, barriers to care, and the no wrong door approach in Wales's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy. This module gives leaders an overview of mental health law and services, from the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Independent Review chaired by Sir Simon Wessely to the Mental Health Act 2025. It looks honestly at racial disparities in detention, compares Wales and England, including the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, and focuses on discharge from hospital as the point where homelessness and mental health law meet.
What you'll develop
In this Bitesize, you will develop the ability to:
- Explain the two-way cycle between mental health and homelessness, and identify points in it where services can step in.
- Recognise the range of conditions people may be living with, and communicate safely and compassionately about deaths, including suicide, using Samaritans guidance.
- Apply a no wrong door approach, with warm handovers, shared plans and joint assessments, to remove designed-in barriers to care and make rights reachable.
- Outline how mental health law has developed from the 1983 Act to the Mental Health Act 2025, and what the new Act sets out to change as its provisions commence.
- Explain why detention rates differ by ethnicity, locating the gap in systems, pathways and decisions rather than in individuals, and compare the frameworks in Wales and England.
- Plan a good discharge for someone at risk of homelessness, treating discharge as a transition and drawing on section 117 aftercare and the homelessness duties on public bodies.
The Modules.
1 hour 15 minutes of learning.
- 04Mental Health and HomelessnessThis module explores the two-way relationship between mental health and homelessness, and the cycle in which mind and home can pull each other down, with every stage a chance to step in. It covers what people may be living with, the Office for National Statistics estimates of deaths of people experiencing homelessness, Samaritans safe messaging guidance, barriers to care, and the no wrong door approach in Wales's Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.39 min
- 05Mental Health Law and ServicesThis module gives leaders an overview of mental health law and services, from the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Independent Review chaired by Sir Simon Wessely to the Mental Health Act 2025. It looks honestly at racial disparities in detention, compares Wales and England, including the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010, and focuses on discharge from hospital as the point where homelessness and mental health law meet.39 min
Keep going.
Part of the Homelessness, Mental Health and Multiple Disadvantage topic, also sold whole as No wrong door.
Go deeper, and pay only the difference
- You are hereBitesize, 1 hour 15 minutes, £39
- Next stepFocus, The whole person, 3 hours 30 minutes, £69. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £30.
- Explore, Behind every door, 6 hours, £129. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £90.
- The whole topicImmerse, No wrong door, 11 hours, £249. Already own the Bitesize? You pay £210.
When you step up to a higher level, what you paid in the last 12 months for lower-level courses inside the bigger course comes off its price, in proportion to how much of each is inside it, whichever topic it's from. Courses at the same or a lower level don't give credit against each other. A Focus course or above always costs at least £15. Prices per person. Read the full terms
Also part of: Health, care and home, Health and care, joined up, Every door the right door
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- Hard edgesHomelessness, its scale and multiple disadvantage2 hours£39
- Keeping people aliveSubstance use, co-occurring conditions and harm reduction1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Two laws, one duty of careHomelessness law in Wales and England1 hour 15 minutes£39
- A home firstHousing First and psychologically informed services1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Voice and safetyLived experience, peer leadership and safeguarding adults1 hour 15 minutes£39
- Holding the system togetherWorking across the system and staff wellbeing1 hour 15 minutes£39
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