The Department of Health has launched a £15 million fund to
better support people at risk of experiencing a mental health
crisis.
The Beyond Places of Safety scheme will improve support services
for those needing urgent and emergency mental healthcare. This
includes conditions such as psychosis, bipolar disorder, and
personality disorders that could cause people to be a risk to
themselves or others.
The Beyond Places of Safety
scheme will focus on:
- preventing people from reaching crisis point in the first
place
- helping to develop new approaches to support people who
experience a mental health crisis
, Secretary of State for Health,
said:
As part of the government’s commitment to improving mental
health throughout society, we are determined to go further to
help people who are experiencing a crisis or feel they are
approaching one.
We want make sure that therapeutic and empathetic support is in
place to stop people falling ill, support them through crisis
and help them recover.
, Minister for Mental
Health said:
There can be few experiences more frightening and
disorientating than mental health crisis, and I commend the
teams already providing brilliant support with help from our
previous grant scheme.
This additional funding will give local areas scope to do even
more, and I look forward to seeing lots of innovative ideas for
improving urgent and emergency mental healthcare across the
country.
The launch of the Beyond Places of Safety fund follows a £15
million investment in the Improving Places of Safety scheme,
which aims to reduce the number of people who end up in a police
cell following detention under the Mental Health Act.
