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date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Loneliness: Social Prescribing
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made against his Department’s commitment, as set out in the 2018 Loneliness Strategy, to test methods that will improve how a range of organisations, such as community pharmacies, social workers and community nurses, refer into existing social prescribing services and provision in 2019-20.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	277685
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Loneliness Strategy ‘A connected society: A Strategy for tackling loneliness – laying the foundations for change’, acknowledged that tackling loneliness is complex and a long-term challenge, requiring action across many fronts and working with local government, public services, the voluntary and community sector and businesses to identify opportunities to tackle loneliness and build more integrated communities.</p><p>Discussions are underway with a range of public sector organisations such as job centres, local authorities, Public Health England and National Health Service agencies to identify what more can be done to improve how they better refer into social prescribing services and provision.</p><p>In addition, social workers play a key role in referring people into community services and the co-chair of the Principal Social Worker network sits on the National Social Prescribing network to promote their work and share learning.</p><p>The Department expects to report on the outcome of this commitment in late autumn.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong> </strong></p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/07/2019 16:28:44 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1139225

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Loneliness: Social Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made against his Department’s commitment, as set out in the 2018 Loneliness Strategy, to improve knowledge sharing among social workers through the Chief Social Worker for Adults to develop social workers’ (a) ability to recognise people who may be experiencing loneliness and (b) their knowledge and services or support to refer people on to.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	277686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Loneliness Strategy ‘A connected society: A Strategy for tackling loneliness – laying the foundations for change,’ acknowledged that tackling loneliness is complex and a long-term challenge, requiring action across many fronts and working with local government, public services, the voluntary and community sector and businesses to identify opportunities to tackle loneliness and build more integrated communities.</p><p>The Government has commissioned an evidence review to support the Chief Social Worker for Adults’ commitment in the Loneliness Strategy, to improve knowledge sharing among social workers and recognition and support for people who may be experiencing loneliness.</p><p>The review summarises the evidence into key messages and recommendations for social workers, other social care practitioners and employers. The Department will publish the review in the summer – this will inform specific guidance for social workers to ensure that they include loneliness in their assessment and care planning and that they also contribute to community development and other projects that can help tackle loneliness.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/07/2019 16:16:45 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1139226

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Loneliness: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress has been made against his Department’s commitment, as set out in the 2018 Loneliness Strategy, for Public Health England to reach one million members of the public with information on loneliness as a key risk factor for mental health problems.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	277687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government’s Loneliness Strategy ‘A connected society: A Strategy for tackling loneliness – laying the foundations for change’, acknowledged that tackling loneliness is complex and a long-term challenge, requiring action across many fronts and working with local government, public services, the voluntary and community sector and businesses to identify opportunities to tackle loneliness and build more integrated communities.</p><p>The Every Mind Matters campaign was piloted in the Midlands in October 2018 and will be launched across England in October 2019. The campaign launch can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-launches-new-mission-to-put-prevention-at-the-top-of-the-mental-health-agenda" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-launches-new-mission-to-put-prevention-at-the-top-of-the-mental-health-agenda</a></p><p>The Midlands campaign can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-mental-health-campaign-launched-across-the-midlands" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-mental-health-campaign-launched-across-the-midlands</a></p><p>The campaign aims to help people become better informed and equipped to look after their own mental health and contains advice on the impact of loneliness on mental health, promotes the benefits of social connection and facilitates self-care to improve mental health by offering personalised action plans.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/07/2019 16:28:22 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

1139227

registered interest
date	16/07/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Loneliness
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the 2018 Loneliness Strategy, what steps his Department has taken to work with the Loneliness Action Group to share learning on loneliness and ensure effective implementation of the strategy.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	277688
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/07/2019 answer text <p>The Government has engaged closely with the Loneliness Action Group in the development of and now implementation of its loneliness strategy. Government officials have regularly attended the quarterly Loneliness Action Group meetings, to share updates and hear the group's views. The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Sport and Civil Society (Mims Davies MP), who leads the Government's work on loneliness, spoke at the Loneliness Action Group conference in May 2019.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 22/07/2019 16:14:09 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson