Mental Health People's Parliament The People’s Parliament is a strategic body led by MPs with recent lived experience of mental health difficulties. Its function is to hold decision makers to account for improvements in services and supports so that people who experience mental health difficulties can have an improved quality of life and be in greater control of their own mental wellbeing. The Parliament is located in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, just outside of Birmingham. Parliament White Paper Priorities Read the latest newsletter Developmental Work Monitoring Work The Parliament is also developing several areas of work in its own right, with partners. These are: Quality of Life Mental Health Standards These standards are a tool that can be used in a variety of ways to drive change. They are being embedded into commissioning processes to inspire and stimulate recovery focused approaches, challenge assumptions, shape thinking and stimulate cultural change in working practices. Read the standards Community Places of Safety One of the Parliament’s current priorities is the development of a Community Place of Safety. You can read about this below: Read the briefing paper The Parliament hold regular monitoring meetings, asking key decision makers, commissioners and other senior figures for progress made against Parliament priorities. The last meeting was held on 17th November 2017. You can read the agencies responses by clicking on the image below: During 2018 the People’s Parliament will prioritise the monitoring of 24/7 access to mental healthcare and increasing access to psychological therapies (IAPT). Other areas will also continue to be monitored, but will not be prioritised. The role of an MP in the People’s Parliament The Mental Health People's Parliament is made up of MPs with recent lived experience of mental health difficulties within the last two years. MPs need to have recent experience, so they have knowledge about how current services operate and how they can be improved. If you are a Sandwell resident and have recent lived experience of mental health difficulties click below to learn more about being an MP. Alternatively contact us on [email protected] or 0300 302 0770. Read about how to become an MP