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Changing the World

This weekend I met up with a friend of mine whom I first met when I started my MA in Social Work roughly 12 years ago. Since graduating and qualifying, our careers have taken different but in some ways parallel … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 28 Feb 2011 6:53 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, discrimination, local authority, politics, london, health, personal, philosophy, i want to change the world, Leadership, leadership and management, making the world a better place
Weekend Links 7

Been a bit of a disjointed and very busy week and likely to get more so over March but still, there are hints of spring arriving and that’s good enough for me. Here are some social work related posts that … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 26 Feb 2011 6:44 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, links, personal
Bullying

Bullying – it’s a very loaded word. As adults we’ve been through the school experiences where, if we didn’t experience it and weren’t perpetrators, we’d probably know people who were in one or the other camp. School is just a … Continue reading...

Published 25 Feb 2011 6:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, socialcare, discrimination, old age, elderly, long-term care, health, community, dementia care, personal, care homes, community building, Adult, Behavior, Bullying, bullying in residential care, nursing homes, Violence and Abuse
Podcasts and Social Work

I’ve found it hard to locate useful podcasts at times. As you may have noticed, I added an ‘audio resources’ tab to my blog yesterday. I wanted to explain a bit about it today. I listen to the Social Work … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 23 Feb 2011 6:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, health, podcast
When Old Age Meets Teenage – Review

Generally, I tend not to watch anything that might be deemed to be ‘work-related’ but last night I sat down to watch ‘When Old Age Meets Teenage’ on BBC2 (available here on the iPlayer). It’s only the first of a … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 22 Feb 2011 6:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, old age, elderly, long-term care, care home, nursing home, Disability, personal, Care of residents, People, Age UK, bbc2 programme, Generations and Age Groups, intergenerational work, when old age meets teenage, whiteley village
Life as a Social Work Student 3 – Mid-placement reflections

Thanks again, to the guest author of this who is a current first year social work student. I’m sharing these pieces not only because they are fantastic but because it allows for another perspective from a social work student! Enjoy … Continue...

Published 21 Feb 2011 6:19 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, health, social work student, Employment, Child, youth, General Social Care Council, student social worker
Weekend Links 6

As usual at the weekend now, I’ll just run through some posts that have caught my attention over the week relating specifically to social work and social care. Hessian Pepper at The Small Places has a wonderfully useful summary and … Continue reading...

Published 19 Feb 2011 6:13 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, mental health, health, links, mental capacity act, blog, Palliative care
Making Work Pay – Thoughts on the Welfare Reform Bill

Yesterday Iain Duncan Smith unveiled his ‘flagship’ welfare reform bill amid much nodding and clapping on the part of the government. He was, he declared, going to end the ‘benefit culture’ and ensure that work pays. There is something disconcerting …...

Published 18 Feb 2011 6:52 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social issues, work, benefits, politics, Disability, personal, Disability Living Allowance, david cameron, iain duncan-smith, employment support allowance, Incapacity Benefit, Welfare reform, making work pay, welfare reform bill
Press, Perception and the Court of Protection

Having had to study the Mental Capacity Act in fairly great detail, I often have to turn to judgements made by the Court of Protection to extend my general legislative knowledge. The Court of Protection has a number of functions … Continue reading...

Published 16 Feb 2011 7:06 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, MCA, learning disability, local authority, politics, human rights, mencap, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Court of Protection, pregnancy, personal, NHS Trust, Best Interests Assessor, cop, public guardian
Scrutiny, CQC and ADASS

Yesterday, I read on the Community Care website that ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Services.. and Housing Departments or whatever else they direct these days) are seeking a meeting with the CQC (Care Quality Commission) about ‘a new...

Published 15 Feb 2011 6:44 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, health, nhs, local government, National Health Service, Disability, personal, Care Quality Commission, cqc, personal budget, adass, outcome measurement, Quality assurance, transparency in outcomes
Weekend Links 5

- Great news on The Social Work Blog that BASW and The College of Social Work are finally back around the table. - Another topical matter (in the UK at least) has led Going Public Sector to discuss the … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 12 Feb 2011 8:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, personal
Events, Opportunities and Research

Bit of a random, stream of consciousness type post today as I was suffering from severe writers block this morning so apologies in advance! RiPfa (Research in Practice for Adults) are promoting a contest on Twitter to win an expenses-paid … Continue...

Published 11 Feb 2011 7:07 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, local authority, community care live, uk, Research, General Social Care Council, SWAN, Social Work Action Network, competition, research in practice for adults, ripfa, social work research, twitter contest
The Two Colleges continued – BASW, SCIE and the Nascent College

I am more than a little frustrated that BASW (British Association of Social Workers) and the College of Social Work (in its current interim state) haven’t been able to thrash out their problems. I’ve mentioned the background to this before … Continue...

Published 10 Feb 2011 6:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, uk, Trade union, Unison, England, social workers, General Social Care Council, British Association of Social Workers, basw, scie, college of social work, basw council, english social work issues, feud, west lothian question in basw
The Past is Another Locality..

I’ve mentioned this before, but I have worked in a couple of different teams within the same borough. Through fair means or foul, yesterday, I ended up in the office where I used to work before I moved to my … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 9 Feb 2011 6:19 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, local authority, nhs, local government, redundancy, personal, Student, Hot desking, smart working
Give The Fish or the Rod? – (A Guest Post)

(This is a Guest Post by Noel McDermott Many Thanks to Noel for allowing me to reprint this ) - Give The Fish or the Rod? Having spent over a couple of decades in health and social care in the … Continue reading → Read More...

Published 8 Feb 2011 6:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, professional, Child, Child abuse, Child protection, Abuse, personal experiences, guest post, Murder of Victoria Climbié, noel mcdermott, safeguarding children, Victoria Climbie
Cameron and Multiculturalism

Firstly, apologies that I’m a little late to this but I wasn’t around at the weekend to comment. Cameron made a speech on Saturday in Munich was an attempt to echo Merkel’s speech in October where She said the so-called … Continue reading →...

Published 7 Feb 2011 7:05 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social issues, work, immigration, politics, personal, Britain, british politics, david cameron, edl, English Defence League, Islam, Islamophobia, lega nord, multicultural britain, multiculturalism, multiculturalism is dead, Muslim, New Statesman
Weekend Links 4

I was going to skip a week because I’m in Scotland this weekend but I couldn’t resist because I’ve come across some great posts I really wanted to share! Always Something to Complain About (love the blog title!) a social … Continue reading →...

Published 5 Feb 2011 5:39 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work
Big Society Revisited

I am still having trouble understanding exactly what Cameron means by the ‘Big Society’. I am really trying. I have read up on it on it’s own website and I looked on Wikipedia (doesn’t that count as substantial research?). I … Continue reading →...

Published 4 Feb 2011 6:57 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, local authority, politics, london, local government, personal, david cameron, big society, philosophy, community building, cumbria, eden, role for future social work, Rory Stewart, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Sutton, voluntary work, volunteer, what is big society
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – a few thoughts

I’ve written about the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (aka DoLs) and Best Interests Assessments before but the last time I touched on them in detail was a back in 2009 when I looked at some of the initial assessments I … Continue reading →...

Published 3 Feb 2011 6:20 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, mental health, MCA, old age, mental health act, mental health act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005, approved mental health professional, Court of Protection, Human Rights Act 1998, personal, European Convention of Human Rights, Best Interests Assessor, bia
Munro’s Interim Report on Child Protection – some thoughts

Professor Munro published an Interim Report on Child Protection – subtitled ‘A Child’s Journey’ yesterday with some ideas, thoughts and (most importantly) hard research evidence about changes that need to be made in the child protection system and particularly...

Published 2 Feb 2011 6:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, health, England, personal, Child abuse, Child protection, Ofsted, Ed Balls, children's services, social work task force, eileen munro, monroe report, munro, munro report, munro review, munroe report
An Assessment of Capacity

I am constantly assessing capacity. It isn’t always done on the formal paperwork that we use when a major decision or one likely to have major consequences is being made. Sometimes it is a simple action that might be almost … Continue reading →...

Published 1 Feb 2011 5:37 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, mental health, MCA, old age, health, Alzheimer's disease, decision-making, Mental Capacity Act 2005, personal, Capacity (law)

February 2011 - Fighting Monsters

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Changing the World

Weekend Links 7

Bullying

Podcasts and Social Work

When Old Age Meets Teenage – Review

Life as a Social Work Student 3 – Mid-placement reflections

Weekend Links 6

Making Work Pay – Thoughts on the Welfare Reform Bill

Press, Perception and the Court of Protection

Scrutiny, CQC and ADASS

Weekend Links 5

Events, Opportunities and Research

The Two Colleges continued – BASW, SCIE and the Nascent College

The Past is Another Locality..

Give The Fish or the Rod? – (A Guest Post)

Cameron and Multiculturalism

Weekend Links 4

Big Society Revisited

Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards – a few thoughts

Munro’s Interim Report on Child Protection – some thoughts

An Assessment of Capacity