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Shadowing a Social Worker – pre-course reflections

This is a Guest Post by a friend of mine who is going to start her social work course in September. She was speaking to me about the pre-course shadowing and I asked her if she’d write a post about it! I think it’s great – I might ask...

Published 31 May 2010 7:59 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: pre-course shadowing, social work, social work in the uk, social work student, social work team, work
Capacity and Surgery

There is a case reported in the Telegraph today which I found interesting in relation to my work with the Mental Capacity Act – a generally very positive piece of legislation that has affected so many aspects of the way we work. It is interesting partly...

Published 27 May 2010 6:02 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: consent to treatment, Court of Protection, court of protection case law, daily telegraph, learning disability, MCA, mental capacity act, mental health, sir nicholas wall, social care, social issues, work
R.I.P PC

It fizzled and finally it died. Poor computer. The burning smell coming from inside the case doesn’t augur well for its prospects of being fixed but fortunately I was fairly fastidious about external data back-ups. In the meantime, I’ll be...

Published 22 May 2010 10:13 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dead pc, personal
Sectioned – A Quick Review

Probably not the most in-depth review as I haven’t had a lot of time to process the programme shown on BBC 4 on Wednesday called ‘Sectioned’ as a part of the ‘Out of Mind’ season about mental illness. The programme’s aim was to allow a greater insight...

Published 21 May 2010 6:45 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: AMHP, BBC Four, bbc4 out of mind season, health, hospital, Involuntary commitment, Janet Street-Porter, Mental disorder, mental health, patient, sectioned, tv programme, tv review, work
The Next Steps

The new coalition government published some of the details about their plans for the next five (gulp) years yesterday. I had a brief glance at the issues as they relate to social care in particular. I feel distinctly underwhelmed, I have to say. I’m glad...

Published 20 May 2010 11:11 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: burstow, Coalition government, Department of Health, Disability, government, Liberal Democrat, long-term care, politics, respite care, work
Community Care Live – reflections

Yesterday, I went to the ‘Community Care Live’ event which runs for a couple of days (it’s on today as well). As usual, I had to pick which day had the more useful sessions and ended up with a fairly busy programme yesterday and a few difficult decisions...

Published 19 May 2010 7:12 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: community care live, government, health, individual budget, local authority, local government, nhs, old age, personalisation, social care, social work, work
Officers or Nurses

I know I shouldn’t go to the Daily Mail website. It is a form of morbid curiosity but I saw this article headlined and couldn’t resist Chief Constable Peter Fahy of Greater Manchester Police says that he needs ‘more mental health nurses as much as officers...

Published 18 May 2010 6:59 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: daily mail, discrimination, Greater Manchester, health, Mental disorder, mental health, personal, peter fahy, Police officer, politics, s135, s136, stigma and mental health, uk, work
BBC Four’s ‘Out of Mind Season’

I mentioned last week a programme ‘Sectioned’ which is on this coming Wednesday. This is part of a season which is starting tonight on BBC4 related to mental health. It started with a rerun of Stephen Fry’s ‘Secret Life of a Manic Depressive’ with the...

Published 17 May 2010 7:03 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: BBC, BBC4, health, mental a history of the madhouse, mental health, mental health season, Open University, out of mind season, sectioned, she's been away, Stephen Fry, work
A New Government

I had a lump in my throat when I watched Brown’s resignation speech. I thought he spoke with an enormous dignity. But within the hour a new tenant of 10 Downing Street had staked his claim. My one sadness and this is a very personal one is that my father...

Published 12 May 2010 7:16 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: personal, politics, work
Ethnic Origin

I am fairly dark-skinned, often I am mistaken for someone who might be from Southern Europe. When I was living in Italy, I had real difficulties trying to persuade people I was English as I didn’t ‘look’ English. I don’t really think about it too much...

Published 11 May 2010 6:31 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: personal
Hung

I haven’t written about the election result because it took me a while to process it and of course, the conclusions are still somewhat up in the air. I do think there needs to be a change in the voting system. The first past the post system fits into...

Published 10 May 2010 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, Majority government, Minority government, personal, Plurality voting system, politics, single transferable vote, stv, work
Counting Votes

Image via Wikipedia One year, I counted votes at an election. The local authority asks for volunteers from among their employees and so I volunteered to work as a counter. We had the option of working at a polling station but I rather preferred having...

Published 6 May 2010 6:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Ballot, election, Elections, how votes are counted, personal, politics, polling station, Voting
Disenfranchised

Over the weekend, I found myself embroiled in a couple of political discussions with friends. The Guardian has come out for the Lib Dems and the Independent is promoting ‘tactical voting’ namely ‘anything to keep the Conservatives out’. I have to admit...

Published 3 May 2010 7:07 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Conservative, david cameron, Labour, Lib Dem, Liberal Democrat, Liberal Democrats, london, Marginal seat, personal, politics, tactical voting

May 2010 - Fighting Monsters

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Shadowing a Social Worker – pre-course reflections

Capacity and Surgery

R.I.P PC

Sectioned – A Quick Review

The Next Steps

Community Care Live – reflections

Officers or Nurses

BBC Four’s ‘Out of Mind Season’

A New Government

Ethnic Origin

Hung

Counting Votes

Disenfranchised