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Tom Pollard

Tom Pollard has worked on mental health social policy in Parliament on behalf of MIND for the last ten years. Now, he is training as a mental health social worker.
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Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut

Tom Pollard
21 September, 2021

‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’

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The government’s ‘mental health recovery plan’ is an act of political gaslighting

Tom Pollard
31 March, 2021

As a social worker, I know just how much this plan misses the mark.

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The welfare state is broken – but not in the way you think

Tom Pollard
2 July, 2019

Rebuilding the system won’t cut it, says mental health policy advisor Tom Pollard

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