The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published its submission to MPs now looking into the skills needs of social care staff who support people with dementia.
Continue reading Joseph Rowntree's thoughts on dementia care.
May 2009 Archives
Sometimes when a judge passes what seems to be an unduly lenient sentence it is natural to sit back and ponder: "Did I miss something?"
Continue reading Baby P: The sentence must fit the crime.
Fostering Fortnight has just ended but agencies fear that a carers crisis is looming.
Continue reading Foster carers crisis looming.
The number of asylum claimants in the UK rose by 27% in the first three months of 2009 to more than 8,300.
Continue reading Welcome to the nasty country.
In the 1980s former Fleet Street editor Derek Jameson fronted a TV programme called Do They Mean Us?, in which clippings from foreign documentaries about the British way of life were screened.
Continue reading Setting the drunken scene for social services conference.
Care workers on the minimum wage who are toasting their not overly generous 7p an hour pay rise should put down their glasses now.
Continue reading Low-paid care workers may face even worse conditions.
The enormity of the effects on professionals of negative media coverage of social work hit home like a bullet between the eyes last week at Community Care Live 09.
Continue reading Keys to giving social work a positive spin.
Care services minister Phil Hope was not at Community Care Live 09 this week. It was good timing.
Continue reading Phil Hope opens his heart and wallet.
How do families evade scrutiny by social workers when there are signs of child neglect or harm? Some of them manage it - so the social worker has to be savvy about the methods.
Can PR guru Max Clifford be social work's Mr Fixit? He is certainly looking well. Perhaps he has been on holiday.
Continue reading CC Live: Improving the Image of Social Work with Max Clifford.
The flaws in child protection and how social workers can be aided to iron out these flaws are being examined.
Continue reading CC Live: Achieving best practice in child protection.
The death of Baby P has brought the response of agencies to child deaths back into the spotlight, and Sir Roger Singleton is ready to offer his thoughts.
Continue reading CC Live: Sir Roger Singleton delivers keynote address.
The devil on my shoulder is pleading for someone to ask a question so complex that it would stump even the brilliant mind of Stephen Hawking.
Continue reading CC Live: Question Time chaired by Jeremy Vine.
Dementia is something most of us will experience in some way as the UK population ages. So listen up!
Continue reading CC Live: Can the National Dementia Strategy transform lives?.
It is a perennial question for social care. Are we any closer to answering it? The session includes a personal account from Pippa Murray, of IBK Initiatives.
The same for everyone? I hope so, but the whiff of irony in the question is akin to someone whispering in my ear "you've got to be joking".
Continue reading CC Live: Personalisation: The same for everyone?.
Uh-oh: the press pack - a species detested nearly as much as politicians (with or without moat).
Continue reading CC Live: Stand Up Now for Social Work.
No sign of a politician at our keynote address today. They are probably too busy clearing their moats and adjusting their chandeliers now that the lackey fund is being disbanded.
Continue reading CC Live: David Behan delivers keynote address.
I have seldom been one for giving money to beggars. If I were a commuter at Tulse Hill station I would be even less inclined.
Continue reading Would you give money to a beggar? Think again.
This week is Community Care Live 2009 and Outside Left will be reporting live from all the main plenaries, updating the debate every 10 minutes or so. A "Live from Live", if you like.
Continue reading All the debate from CC Live - as it happens!.
"Joanna Lumley for Prime Minister" read the only half-joking headline on a Daily Telegraph blog this morning.
Continue reading Labour forgot the Gurkhas were fighters.
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