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Bank Holiday Thoughts

A small pause for reflection. Firstly to thank everyone who responded to the poll I put up last week and to those who left comments both publicly and who contacted me privately. I was, to be honest, close to giving … Continue reading → Read...

Published 30 Aug 2010 6:35 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work
Could you do it?

‘The Social Work Challenge’ is a short ‘quiz’ to test social work skills and to try and highlight some of the complex decisions made by social workers in child protection. It was sent to me and I think the intention … Continue reading → Read...

Published 27 Aug 2010 6:52 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work
Vacancy Rates

Community Care have published a special report into social work vacancy rates in the UK. The report finds that 1 in 10 social work posts in the UK are currently vacant according to information that they have put together following … Continue reading...

Published 26 Aug 2010 7:17 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: local authority, local government, lots of vacancies, personal, politics, social care, social services, social work, social work vacancies, social worker, vacancy, work
Consultations

The BBC report that Unison, a large public sector union (disclaimer – I’m a member), is challenging the government’s plans to ‘shake up the NHS’ as proposed by the ‘Equity and Excellence : Liberating the NHS’ White Paper that was … Continue reading...

Published 25 Aug 2010 6:41 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: consultation, health, liberating the nhs, nhs consultation, nhs white paper, nhs white paper consultation, personal, politics, social care, work
What would you like to see here?

I’m having some thoughts and second-thoughts about where I want to go with this blog. I have been concerned to be honest, that I’ve been putting in too much of the personal stuff and have actually adjusted some of my … Continue reading...

Published 21 Aug 2010 7:38 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: personal
Deja Vu

Since my return to full-time work, to say that I’ve been busy has been something of an understatement. I’ve picked up a reasonable amount of new allocations and have been returning to visit service users that I had been seeing … Continue reading...

Published 20 Aug 2010 6:54 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elderly, government spending cuts, health, local authority, mental health, old age, older people, outcome indicators in health, payment by results, personal, short of staff, social care, social issues, social work, work
Facebook and Kindle

I have set up a Facebook page for the blog. It took me so long because I was trying to work out privacy settings and some such and created a ‘new persona’ in order to set the page up – … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 19 Aug 2010 7:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: facebook, fighting monsters facebook page, kindle publishing, personal, putting blog on kindle
Bel Mooney, Disability and Sex

There is something of a theme for the week and while I wanted to move onto other subjects and events, I was unfortunate enough, in my daily trawl of news websites to come across this ignorant abomination of a ‘column’ … Continue reading →...

Published 18 Aug 2010 7:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: bel mooney, daily fail, daily mail, direct payments, Disability, disability discrimination, discrimination, hateful daily mail, health, local authority, mooney, personal, personal budget, politics, prejudiced journalism, sex and disability, social care, social issues, social work, social workers, uk, work
Saints and Scroungers – a review

I didn’t plan to watch ‘Saints and Scroungers’ on BBC1 last night. Really, I didn’t but it was nestled between The One Show and Eastenders (I never claimed to have particularly high brow TV viewing habits!) so it just happened … Continue reading...

Published 17 Aug 2010 6:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: awful tv, bbc1, benefits cheats, Disability, discrimination, dominic littlewood, local authority, personal, politics, saints and scroungers, scroungers, scroungers and saints, social issues, social policy, sociology, Welfare, work
Sex on the State

It’s hard to find an interesting and exciting ‘mainstream’ story on Personal Budgets – until, of course, the media picks up that they can be used to pay for sex. The story that has been pretty much on the radar … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 16 Aug 2010 7:17 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Disability, disabled adults and sex, discrimination, elderly, local authority, paying for sex, personal, personal budget, personal budgets and sex, politics, sex, social care, social issues, social work, work
Memories

Yesterday, it was a year since the death of my father. In some ways it has flown by but in other ways, it seems like such a long time since he has been around. It’s been a busy year for … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 13 Aug 2010 7:14 PM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dad, memories, personal
Protected: Office Politics

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Published 11 Aug 2010 6:51 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: desks, local authority, office, personal, remote working, social work, team working, work
Dying alone

Community Care highlight the report from the Local Government Association which explains that councils spend £1.56 million per year on public health funerals. These are funerals arranged by the local authority when there is no family or friends to arrange...

Published 10 Aug 2010 7:43 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dying alone, elderly, funerals, local authority, local authority funerals, Local Government Association, old age, older people, personal, social isolation, social issues, uk, work
Redesigns

So I attempted to change the theme of the blog and it didn’t go quite to plan – I lost my lovely header and a change of computer and lack of Photoshop skills mean it might be a while until … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 9 Aug 2010 9:08 PM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work
Goodbyes

I spent the weekend away from London. It was the first time in many months (apart from when I was in hospital – and I don’t really count that!) that I had spent a night away from home. It feels good to get out of the city occasionally and I made a mental...

Published 9 Aug 2010 7:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Foster care, fostering, goodbye, personal, social care
Refusing help

The tragic case of Stephania and Sam Wolf has been in the news over the last day. Without knowing anything but the most cursory details of this particular case, it raises some issues and dilemmas that I am very familiar with and wanted to explore for...

Published 4 Aug 2010 6:26 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Disability, health, local authority, long-term care, MCA, mental capacity act, mental health, old age, older people, personal, politics, refusal of services, sam wolf, social care, social issues, social services, social work, stephania wolf, uk, work
Linford Park Nursing Home

Linford Park Nursing Home is in danger of closure after a raid last week by police reports the Telegraph. The article states that “The operation was intelligence led and targeted immigration offenders working illegally at the home,” said a UK Border...

Published 3 Aug 2010 7:01 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elderly, Elderly care, hampshire, health, immigration, linford park, long term care. cqc, mental health, old age, older people, personal, residential care, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work

August 2010 - Fighting Monsters

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Bank Holiday Thoughts

Could you do it?

Vacancy Rates

Consultations

What would you like to see here?

Deja Vu

Facebook and Kindle

Bel Mooney, Disability and Sex

Saints and Scroungers – a review

Sex on the State

Memories

Protected: Office Politics

Dying alone

Redesigns

Goodbyes

Refusing help

Linford Park Nursing Home