Peer Support: working with the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector

Published On: 1st September 2020

By: Health Education England

This thinking paper by Alison Faulkner explores CVSE’s peer support workers contribution to mental health provision, and how the NHS and other healthcare settings can benefit from CVSE peer support in its many forms.

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Guides/Factsheets/Toolkits

Published on: 1st September 2021

A Toolkit for Co-Production in Community Planning

This toolkit is based on the experience of delivering the Carnegie Embedding Wellbeing in Northern Ireland Programme with three Community Planning Partnerships, a review of global practice and consultations with key stakeholders from all of the region’s Community Planning Partnerships. The toolkit covers definitions and principles, community engagement and empowerment for co-production, co-producing in community planning partnership structures and co-producing with service users. The toolit looks at each of the issues, provides advice and guidance and directs to resourses and case studies.

Policy and Influencing

Published on: 28th June 2024

The Impact of Covid-19 on Mental Health in England: supporting services

This report by the British Medical Association looks at the effects of Covid-19 on the population's mental health and what improvements are needed within the services, exploring mental health inequalities and vulnerable groups. The paper offers recommendations for improving mental health services to ensure they can respond to the mental health needs of the population.

Research

Published on: 1st September 2025

The Cost of a Healthy Food Basket in Northern Ireland 2014-2024 (Summary)

Summary of the cost of a healthy food basket in Northern Ireland in 2024 though an easy to read infographic. The research compared the cost of a healthy food basket as a proportion of a take-home income for household types in Northern Ireland: two parents and three children (pre, primary and secondary school), two parents and two children (pre-school and primary school), one parent and two children (pre-school and primary school) and a pensioner living alone.