The stigma and the social and economic exclusion which often accompany the challenge of living with mental illness is borne out by official figures, which show that 2.3 million people with a mental health condition are out of work. While a commitment to removing mental health stigmais to be welcomed, much more needs to be done to help those in the UK’s African Caribbean communities, who often deal with negative perceptions surrounding mental health issues.
The home secretary Theresa May will be co-chairing a roundtable with the black mental health charity BMH UK this week, where policing minister Mike Penning and a number of leading figures in the policing and mental health sector will look at measures to improve the way mental health is treated in Britain’s black communities. These will include...
[For more of this story, written by Matilda MacAttram, go to http://www.theguardian.com/com...ll-britain-human-nhs]
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