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January 2024
2023 Impact Report
We’re pleased to share our Impact Report evaluating our work over the last year.
Our vision is simple: a thriving mental health workforce, empowered to support people to live the life they want and deserve.
From our mental health social work programme, to our advocacy work across the sector, we work to ensure people living with mental health needs have access to the right support, at the right time.
Philippa Mariani, our Chief Executive, reflected:
Times remain tough and ensuring people with mental health needs can live the life they want and deserve is more important than ever.”
Philippa Mariani, Chief Executive
“Since we launched our first programme cohort in 2016, we have welcomed and trained nearly 1,000 new mental health social workers. Together with their colleagues, they’re making a difference each to people’s lives each and every day.
They have dedicated their careers to helping others, but the ongoing health and social care workforce crisis is taking its toll.
We have to stop taking our professionals for granted.
That is why we published our manifesto: Workforce Matters this year. The mental health workforce needs urgent transformation.
We need to grow, invest and connect the workforce to achieve better experiences for people living with mental health needs and practitioners alike.”
Find out more about our manifesto
Looking ahead
We were also pleased to launch our new five year strategy.
Using our strategy, we will continue our work to recruit, train and promote the mental health workforce. Bringing insights from our community into national policy discussions and embedding lived experience into our work, to build a thriving workforce.
We stand with the sector and look forward to continuing our work in 2024 and beyond.