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  • Poverty - Blog Action Day 2008

    Today is Blog Action Day when it is hoped that a collective conscience can be turned towards one subject - Poverty. I thought about a brief dabble into the different thoughts it conjures up for me, personally. I could talk about personal experiences because although I have never been in a situation...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-15-2008

  • Men Needed

    Perhaps it is unsurprising to learn that the majority of people who work in ’social care’ are women. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report last week explaining why it was necessary for the sector to reach out and attract more men to the workforce. Stepheye at Flickr Some of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008

  • Is Caring a Skill?

    The immigration rules are changing here. Generally I have a liberal view towards immigration - and one that probably wouldn’t win me any friends at dinner parties, if I ever went to any that is! I am aware though, that my view is sometimes prejudiced by the knowledge that my own great-grandparents...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008

  • Social Work - a Daily Mail interpretation

    I know I shouldn’t do it. I know it will just make me unnecessarily angry and raise my blood pressure. I know exactly what I’ll find but sometimes, just occasionally, my curiosity gets the better of me and I dip into the Daily Mail’s website. And to those lucky enough not to have come...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • Personal view of Personalisation

    I have to admit, before I start, that I have a somewhat brief view of personalisation which the Department of Health explains:- This means that every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008

  • Modern to Postmodern Social Work

    There doesn’t seem to be much getting away from the fact that social work is a vaguely paternalistic profession. I touched on this previously and  its something that I’ve been dwelling on for a while. Even if the systems and functions have changed today, its roots were in any case. Charity...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008

  • Re: Strike stories

    In Kensington and Chelsea we had a brilliant two days. We are a relatively small UNISON branch that has been poorly organised for years but which is growing and getting organised with gathering momentum. I think this dispute will be remembered as a turning point for us, we have been inundated with application...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Robert Lugg on 07-18-2008

  • Police autonomy is the way forward for social work

    by Steve Rogowski Under New Labour, there have been longstanding concerns in the public services about the amount of bureaucracy and resulting pre-occupation with paperwork, targets and performance indicators. Teachers, police officers, health and social workers all bemoan and question this aspect of...
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • The Right to (Free) State Care

    Brown announced that he was starting a six month consultation to make decisions about reforms to the ’social care’ system and in particular, its funding. The Wanless Social Care Review was produced back in 2006 and it examined ways of paying for long term care in the face of an aging population...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-13-2008

  • Re: Should BASW forge closer links with a union?

    BASW says it has always seen its role as putting service users, practice and social work values first, and social workers themselves second; whereas unions have putting members interests first as their raison d'etre. The idea behind the link is the difficulty of drawing a firm line between these...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 03-05-2008
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