PSYCHOLOGISTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
  • Home
  • About
  • Groups
    • Start a New Group
    • England >
      • North East >
        • North East
        • Yorks and Humber
        • Leeds
      • North West >
        • A North West Just Recovery following coronavirus
        • Manchester- PSPO letter
      • Midlands >
        • Midlands
        • Leicester
      • South East >
        • East Anglia
        • Hertfordshire
        • London
        • Oxford
        • Suffolk
        • Surrey
        • Sussex
      • South West >
        • Bristol and Bath
        • South West
    • Ireland
    • Northern Ireland
    • Jersey
    • Scotland
    • Wales - Cymru >
      • ECT Suspension
      • Elections 2021
      • Black Lives Matter
      • COVID 19 and Internet Access
      • Building Resilience and Community Wellbeing
      • Save the T4CYP Programme
      • Support the Mind over matter Report
      • Social and Political Causes of Poor Mental Health
      • Responding to Austerity and Mental Health in Wales - Accessible Document
      • UN Report on Extreme Poverty in the UK Letter
  • Blog
  • Position statements
    • Racism is Not Entertainment
    • Response to Panorama: Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal
    • Letter to Jeremy Hunt
    • UK Government Green Paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision
    • Esther McVey: PSC and RITB response
  • Campaigns
    • Structural racism demands a structural response
    • Embed anti-racism in the NHS
    • COVID-19 >
      • Mutual Aid
      • COVID and mental health
    • PSC Manifesto 2019
    • Visioning a new education system
    • New Savoy Conference Statement
    • Formulating Policy >
      • Origins of Happiness? PSC response
      • Basic Income: Psychological Impact Assessment
    • Preaching to the Non-Converted
    • Psychologists Against Austerity >
      • Austerity Briefing Paper
      • Everyday Austerity
    • Private Health Watch
  • Join our mailing list
Psychologists Against Austerity is an ongoing campaign highlighting the costs to mental health of austerity policies. This focusses both on the breadth and depth of cuts to public services and the austerity narrative which has been used to justify these cuts. 

​As applied psychologists in the UK we believe it is our public and professional duty to be speaking out against the further implementation of austerity policies. From professional experience and our knowledge of empirical psychological evidence, we know that cuts have been toxic for people’s wellbeing and mental health.

Recent  scientific evidence continues to demonstrate links between austerity policies and the nation’s worsening mental health and increasing mental health inequalities.
​
Responding to this, this campaign aims to mobilise psychologists and psychological knowledge to make a case against further austerity policies.

Read and share our briefing paper
We have identified five 'austerity ailments', encapsulating the psychological costs of austerity. 
​
Click through to learn more. 

Home

About

Blog

Copyright © 2020
  • Home
  • About
  • Groups
    • Start a New Group
    • England >
      • North East >
        • North East
        • Yorks and Humber
        • Leeds
      • North West >
        • A North West Just Recovery following coronavirus
        • Manchester- PSPO letter
      • Midlands >
        • Midlands
        • Leicester
      • South East >
        • East Anglia
        • Hertfordshire
        • London
        • Oxford
        • Suffolk
        • Surrey
        • Sussex
      • South West >
        • Bristol and Bath
        • South West
    • Ireland
    • Northern Ireland
    • Jersey
    • Scotland
    • Wales - Cymru >
      • ECT Suspension
      • Elections 2021
      • Black Lives Matter
      • COVID 19 and Internet Access
      • Building Resilience and Community Wellbeing
      • Save the T4CYP Programme
      • Support the Mind over matter Report
      • Social and Political Causes of Poor Mental Health
      • Responding to Austerity and Mental Health in Wales - Accessible Document
      • UN Report on Extreme Poverty in the UK Letter
  • Blog
  • Position statements
    • Racism is Not Entertainment
    • Response to Panorama: Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal
    • Letter to Jeremy Hunt
    • UK Government Green Paper, Transforming Children and Young People’s Mental Health Provision
    • Esther McVey: PSC and RITB response
  • Campaigns
    • Structural racism demands a structural response
    • Embed anti-racism in the NHS
    • COVID-19 >
      • Mutual Aid
      • COVID and mental health
    • PSC Manifesto 2019
    • Visioning a new education system
    • New Savoy Conference Statement
    • Formulating Policy >
      • Origins of Happiness? PSC response
      • Basic Income: Psychological Impact Assessment
    • Preaching to the Non-Converted
    • Psychologists Against Austerity >
      • Austerity Briefing Paper
      • Everyday Austerity
    • Private Health Watch
  • Join our mailing list