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Focus on Recovery – Framework’s approach to Mental Health

We work with hundreds of people experiencing mental health difficulties, providing specialist accommodation and community-based support services across Nottinghamshire. In national Mental Health Awareness Week, I want to explain more about our work.

VIDEO: Simple Change for Troubled Lives. Why should we care?

Why should we care about 60,000 people with multiple needs living seriously troubled lives? Because it's costing us all dearly.

Now is the time for Simple Change on Troubled Lives

Framework Chief Executive Andrew Redfern explains a new campaign to improve outcomes for people living with multiple and complex needs, explaining how five simple changes could have a huge impact.

Prison and homelessness – a cycle that needs to be broken

Given the right set of circumstances at the wrong time, homelessness can happen to almost anyone - but people leaving prison are at far greater risk than many others.

Team Framework - a sea of orange in the Lincolnshire Community

An Invitation to Southwell Minster

Canon Jaqui Jones shares thoughts about Framework's annual service

Lincoln Legal Highs Ban - an example for others to follow

The issue of legal highs is back in the news this week, as the City of Lincoln became the first in the UK to ban their consumption in public. Whilst it won't end their use, it is a step in the right direction and an example to others.

Framework Careers - interview top tips

Framework’s Head of HR Aisla Nicholls suggests some top tips to guide potential employees through the Framework application and interview process, suggesting some other top tips along the way.

Hospital Outreach - stopping rough sleeping with early intervention

A disproportionate number of street homeless people present to A&E departments. Shockingly, 70 per cent of them end up back on the streets when they are discharged. Framework is attempting to break this cycle with a specialist hospital outreach role.

Accommodating people in need - the challenges

Building homes for homeless people is not always easy, and proposals can meet with a great deal of opposition. We tackled this issue in our latest annual report document, and reproduce our article in this blog.