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.
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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?.
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