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Government data blackout 'fundamental failure in accountability' Lack of reliable mental health data has sparked public calls for change.

“Strategy without measurable public reporting is simply rhetoric, and a fundamental failure in accountability.”

Thanks to the Impartial Reporter for covering this important story on failures to publish mental health data.

Read the full article here 👉 www.impartialreporter.com/news/2588094...

When we look after each other and the ground under our feet, amazing things happen. 🌱

We’re delighted to be working with Newhill Youth & Community Centre and the web of community growers and rewilders in Upper Springfield - so many ways our outdoor spaces support our communities to heal. ❤️

If you missed the event, you can read the full ebook below, or contact sara@pprproject.org to enquire about getting a physical copy 📖

www.library.nlb.ie/book/166

“Let the song of love run through your soul, let it make each cell anew.”

At the launch of the Rest of the Story anthology in @themacbelfast.bsky.social in October last year, New Script activist Sean Fitz read his poem ‘Take a Chance’, which opens this powerful collection of writing and art.

You can read the campaign’s full statement here 👉 www.nlb.ie/blog/274/ass...

“Without data, MLAs cannot scrutinise performance. Public spending cannot be assessed for value. Inequalities cannot be identified or addressed and strategy cannot be measured or improved.”

Thanks to Derry Now for covering our call for transparency in mental health data ahead of Monday’s debate.

Campaigners ‘re-wilding’ Belfast site where they fear 900 homes won’t be built due to interface concerns Locals taking steps to build a thriving and sustainable community space on vacant land as they call for social homes

“This is a housing crisis. In times of crisis, you need to act fast.”

Thanks to @irishnews.com for covering the hard work of the Take Back the City activists making the Mackie’s site a sustainable place for communities to thrive.

Read the full article here 👉 www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

It was a really positive and much-needed space. People came looking for housing advice, education support, and general guidance.

Interested in getting involved? Reach out to us here or email asma@pprproject.org

Last Friday, we held our first DAR drop-in session in collaboration with the Kind Economy and CATU Belfast.

DAR is a men’s support and community group created by Kind Economy and CATU to support migrant and refugee men in Belfast, particularly around housing, isolation, and access to services.

This afternoon, the Assembly will debate mental health data, activists from New Script welcome this debate and will be watching closely.

To find out more about the issues around secrecy in mental health data, you can read our previous blog on the subject here 👉 www.nlb.ie/blog/40/2023...

‘What I see in clinic is never a set of labels’: are we in danger of overdiagnosing mental illness? Our current approach to mental health labelling and diagnosis has brought benefits. But as a practising doctor, I am concerned that it may be doing more harm than good

‘Our minds are not brittle! or rigid, but dynamic and responsive… To reverse the mental-illness epidemic we need less rigid classification, and more curiosity and kindness, humility and hope.” - Dr. Gavin Francis

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DeYoung is the author of ‘Power, Politics and Territory in the ‘New Northern Ireland’’, which looks at the wasted opportunity of the Girdwood site, you can also find a link to her book here 👉 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

“What the neighbourhoods around the Girdwood site really needed, then and now, was social housing.”

Read Elizabeth DeYoung’s response to the news of a £22 million investment in the Girdwood Community Hub can be found in @andytownnews.bsky.social here 👉 belfastmedia.com/mala-poist-g...

Candour & Communities This exhibition marks the passage through parliament of the Public Office (Accountability) Bill 2026 (commonly referred to as Hillsborough Law).

Don’t miss it when it comes to Belfast 👇

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Mon 30th – Tue 31st March, 9am-5pm
St Comgall’s, Falls Road, Belfast

Candour & Communities shines a light on some of the most devastating disasters and scandals over the past century – all of which are marked by a widespread culture of lies and concealment by public authorities across the UK.

Inspirational speeches also from Lee Castleton, former Post Office subpostmaster, and Helen Stalford from the University of Liverpool.

This new touring exhibition from @cfpjustice.bsky.social offers a powerful insight into a landmark new law designed to end cover-ups by those in public office.

“Unless the Hillsborough Law, or any other law or policy change is fit for purpose, in the eyes of families, in their experience, they won’t accept it.”

- Prof. Phil Scraton speaking powerfully at the Belfast launch of the ‘Candour & Communities’ exhibition.

Take Back the City | Build a better Belfast Take Back the City is a community coalition that advocates building homes on publicly owned land in Belfast as a way of tackling homelessness and the growing waiting lists for social homes in the city...

Find out about our plans for this site, and the wider Mackie’s site at takebackthecity.ie 🔗

After the landowners have let it sit vacant for >20 years, the local community are taking steps to build a thriving space there 🌱

The community have been looking after the land on Mackie’s, improving biodiversity, and now building a space that people can enjoy until homes can be built around it 🏠

To find out more or to get involved contact Sara Boyce, Organiser sara@pprproject or 07864074335

Heartbroken, sad, angry, inspired, rooted, connected & determined 🩵

Some of the emotions this brave group of activists are feeling as we embark on a vital new play about mental health services with Louise Mathews & Paula McFetridge at Kabosh!

Thanks @themacbelfast.bsky.social for hosting us!

Take Back the City | Build a better Belfast Take Back the City is a community coalition that advocates building homes on publicly owned land in Belfast as a way of tackling homelessness and the growing waiting lists for social homes in the city...

We need a fresh approach. Take Back the City is campaigning for social housing to be built on public land to start to tackle the housing crisis.

Visit takebackthecity.ie to find out more 🔗

Private rents in Belfast have risen by more than 50% over the last five years.

This current situation is unsustainable. Families are being forced into paying extortionate rent because of a lack of social and affordable housing, then being pushed into homelessness by unaffordable rent increases.

Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5-TR: cross sectional analysis Objective To assess the extent and types of financial ties to industry of panel and task force members of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ,...

“The extent of conflicts of interest among these panel and task force members reveals how important it is to examine the systemic and institutional practices that allow for these conflicts.”

DSM-5 psychiatrists received $14m in funding from pharmaceutical industry.

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New Script activists are looking forward to attending this event this afternoon!

Looking forward to learning from the fights of @hillsboroughlawnow.bsky.social, @chinookjustice.bsky.social and others to secure truth and accountability.

Latest issue of VIEW magazine: Why we need to support a public health service and resist a two-tier system - VIEWdigital By VIEWdigital editor Brian Pelan I, like many thousands of other people, am a firm advocate of a public health system that is free at the point of entry. But I also know that our National Health Serv...

Read the new issue of @viewdigital.bsky.social here 👉 viewdigital.org/latest-issue...

Why Northern Ireland must fight for the NHS Anne Hailes on a recent meeting in Belfast, which heard stark warnings about the creeping privatisation of healthcare and the erosion of the NHS

“In the absence of democratic participation, we are left with continuous stories of cases, knee-jerk reactions, passing blame around, and soundbites from decision-makers.” @unisonni.bsky.social

Read all about the launch of VIEW in today’s @irishnews.com 👉 www.irishnews.com/entertainmen...

Last week, activists from the #TakeBacktheCity campaign came together to plan for the year ahead!

Lots of ideas for the Mackie’s plans, pressuring those in power to use public land for public housing, and building diverse and resilient communities 🌱

Find out more at takebackthecity.ie 🔗

Latest issue of VIEW magazine is launched at the offices of UNISON NI in Belfast - VIEWdigital By Liana Mac Intyre The latest issue of VIEW magazine was launched on Monday, January 26, at UNISON Northern Ireland’s office in Galway House on York Street, Belfast. The event brought together trade ...

Interested in #public #health? Trade union leaders and civic society campaigners as well as journalists took part in a discussion in #Belfast.

viewdigital.org/latest-issue...

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@ppr-org.bsky.social
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Spaces still left, secure your place here 👉 www.cdhn.org/event/veep-w...