| A report by the Centre for Mental Health commissioned by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) to evaluate the Better Mental Health Fund nationally has found how investment in public mental health can reap the biggest benefits for local communities. The evaluation finds that the Fund enabled local councils to support a wide range of activities to promote mental health, covering a spectrum of preventive and support-based interventions and projects for the general population, by tailoring their use of the Fund to the needs of their local communities. Funding for public mental health from the OHID’s Better Mental Health Fund was given to local authorities in 40 of the most disadvantaged areas of England that experience higher rates of mental ill health and used to run 314 projects to address mental health challenges arising from the Covid 19 pandemic. CentreforMH_MadeInCommunities_BMHF_0.pdf (centreformentalhealth.org.uk) |
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