By Derren Hayes
Can you care too much? One care home group certainly thought so - it sacked a care worker when she visited out-of-hours a home resident she'd struck up a friendship with.
Continue reading Can you care too much? .
December 2008 Archives
Continue reading Councils struggle to find social workers after Baby P.
by Bronagh Miskelly
Look at the news reports and expert opinion published in Community Care online and in print - or read some of the workforce threads in our online forum, CareSpace - and it won't take long to establish some common themes about the problems experienced in social work.
There are concerns about caseloads, the pressure to meet government targets, a lack of resources, poor levels of supervision, the need for more practical training in the social work degree, and the general lack of respect for social workers leading to difficulties in recruitment and retention
Continue reading Grasp the opportunity.
by Bronagh Miskelly
The linking of race and madness reeks of medieval superstition, yet it is very much alive in modern Britain. The annual Count Me In census reports that 23% of patients receiving in-patient mental health care are from black and minority ethnic groups. Black Caribbean people were four and a half times more likely to be admitted than population numbers would suggest.
Continue reading Stigmatised for being black.
by Emma Maier
Concerns have again surfaced that the appeals process for Independent Safeguarding Authority decisions to bar people from working with children and vulnerable adults may be incompatible with the right to a fair trial under the Human Rights Act.
Continue reading Human rights in the dock.
by Bronagh Miskelly
It is strange that often the higher up the chain a person climbs and the bigger their responsibilities the less feedback it is necessary for them to undergo.
Continue reading Independence is key to safeguarding.
by Derren Hayes
Life in the UK is lonelier than it was a generation ago, so conclude a group of academics who carried out research into the make up of communities.
Continue reading It's lonely out there....
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