Luciana Berger MP Articles

No less revolutionary

Want: The food bank has replaced the soup kitchen and look permanent as Tory cuts persist When William Beveridge identified ‘want’ as one of his five giants, the memories of soup kitchens, dole queues and children with rickets were fresh in the collective mind. The...

Talk of crisis

Not even the most senior family court judge in the country can get patients a mental health bed, argues Luciana Berger Mental health is on the lips of prime ministers and future kings. Mental health has gone mainstream. We must celebrate that, because the more we talk...

Too little, too late on mental health

Jeremy Hunt's mental health workforce plan is nothing more than a weak attempt to redress the damage that has occurred on the Tories' watch, argues Luciana Berger MP After many months of waiting, Jeremy Hunt has finally published his mental health workforce plan. The...

System failure

Rates of suicide and self-harm in our prisons shame us all, writes Luciana Berger MP Official data published by the ministry of justice on 26 January this year showed that 119 prisoners died by suicide during 2016. This is the highest number in a calendar year since...