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White Paper and Comprehensive Care Services

As expected, Andy Burnham (Secretary of State for Health) did, indeed, announce the Government White Paper on setting up a National Care Service and the funding behind it. I haven’t had time to read up on too much apart from the reports around it. Focus...

Published 31 Mar 2010 7:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: andy burnham, elderly, funding social care, General Social Care Council, government, health, Home Care, local authority, long-term care, personal, personal care at home, social care, social issues, social work, White paper, work
National Care Service?

The Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham, wrote a piece in the Guardian today about his vision for a ‘National Care Service’ ‘ providing personal care and support to adults on the basis of need and free at the point of use, will ensure that an...

Published 30 Mar 2010 7:31 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: andy burnham, health, local authority, long-term care, national care service, National Health Service, old age, older people, personal, personal care, politics, Secretary of State for Health, social care, social issues, social work, work
Cutting Costs

Public sector cost cutting is very much a theme of the moment. I suppose in my narrowly focussed view, I thought that we would be struggling but wouldn’t necessarily see any immediate changes – at least as far as front-line clinical work is concerned...

Published 26 Mar 2010 7:07 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: cutting costs in the public sector, local authority, personal, public sector, social care, social work, socialcare, work
The Recovery Model and Dementia

Every week, in supervision with my student, we pick a theory, article, piece of legislation or policy, to discuss at length. Last week, we spoke briefly about the recovery model in mental health services and she asked that we discuss it in more depth...

Published 25 Mar 2010 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dementia, dementia reconsidered, elderly, health, kitwood, mental health, National Health Service, nhs, old age, older people, personal, recovery model and dementia, social work, social work theories, Theory, work
500

I just noticed that my 500th post was posted last week. I don’t usually measure my blog anniversary because I had a bit of a false start into the blogging ‘game’. But I think it’s a useful point to look back over the couple of years since I started and...

Published 23 Mar 2010 6:59 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: blogging, milestone, personal, social work, work
Personalisation and Anti-Racist Practice – A SWAN Event

I was sent the following information by SWAN (Social Work Action Network) London Group whose aims I wholeheartedly support – to publicise an event that they are holding in London on the 24th April. ‘The London group of the Social Work Action Network Read...

Published 22 Mar 2010 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work
Happy World Social Day!

I know, I was having a break and all but I could barely let the day go by without note! Today, the focus is on Making Human Rights Real. Oh, and did I mention it is the day to give all your social worker friends lots of chocolate and other useful gifts...

Published 16 Mar 2010 6:35 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work, world social work day, world social work day 2010
A Break

I’ve been less prolific than usual and I’m aware of that! Mostly it is due to an rapid increase in workload combined with the additional work involved in having a student for whom I am responsible (and believe me, it is a fair whack of additional work...

Published 15 Mar 2010 6:37 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: blogging break, home, personal, social work, work
BASW and the College

One of the Task Force recommendations was the establishment of a College of Social Work with potentially Royal chartered status for Social Workers. It fact, the summary quote is A new and independent College for Social Work led and owned by the profession...

Published 10 Mar 2010 7:17 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: British Association of Social Workers, college of social work, General Social Care Council, gscc., health, Hilton Dawson, personal, royal college of social work, social care, social issues, social work, social work college, work
Random Sentences

I mentioned our use of MMSE (Mini-Mental State Examinations) to provide a rough guide to cognitive levels – and I’ll emphasise the ‘rough’ part of that as really they can only be considered in conjunction with other tests and assessments of daily functioning...

Published 9 Mar 2010 6:48 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Cognition, dementia, elderly, mental health, Mini-Mental State Examination, mmse, old age, older people, personal, sentences, social work, work
The Future of Adult Social Work

I am running late for a training course that I haven’t finished the ‘pre-reading’ for yet – due to an unusually busy weekend (for all the good reasons which involve sunshine and basically being outside!). But I thought it would be remiss not to mention...

Published 8 Mar 2010 7:14 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: british social work, Department of Health, future for social work, future of adult social work, health, local authority, personal, Professional Resources, social work, social work in the uk, social work taskforce, social workers, work
Good Quality Care

Yesterday, I went to visit a service user that I’ve been working with for a good while. Mrs K has Alzheimer’s at a fairly advanced stage and has and continues to be well supported in her home. She currently receives a care package via the local authority...

Published 5 Mar 2010 6:26 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: carer, carers, elderly, Employment, local authority, local government, london, old age, older people, personal, social care, social issues, social work, Wage, work
World Book Day

Image via Wikipedia I had been intending to write a few ‘book reviews’ of books I had come across over the past few weeks/months and had never got round to it but when I noted (thanks to a librarian sister) that today is ‘World Book Day’ – I thought it...

Published 4 Mar 2010 7:40 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: books, mental health, personal, reviews, social work, social work book reviews, work
Why Did You Kill My Dad? 9pm BBC2

Tonight, BBC2 is airing a documentary called ‘Why did you kill my Dad?’. It is made by Julian Hendy, whose father was fatally stabbed by a man with long term mental health problems. He did, as a result of this, do some research about the levels of homicides...

Published 1 Mar 2010 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bbc documentary on mental health, discrimination, health, julian hendy, louis appleby, Mental disorder, mental health, Paul Jenkins, personal, sane, social care, social issues, social work, why did you kill my father, work

March 2010 - Fighting Monsters

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White Paper and Comprehensive Care Services

National Care Service?

Cutting Costs

The Recovery Model and Dementia

500

Personalisation and Anti-Racist Practice – A SWAN Event

Happy World Social Day!

A Break

BASW and the College

Random Sentences

The Future of Adult Social Work

Good Quality Care

World Book Day

Why Did You Kill My Dad? 9pm BBC2