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Goodbye

For reasons that I can’t go into, I am having to close this site for a while. I want to allow people to take and copy information that they might want or need from it and will open it up over the next few days but please do bear in mind that I’ll...

Published 20 Sep 2011 6:15 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: work
Choice, Control and Obfuscation – How the Personalisation Dream is Dying

In the bold move towards a transformation in adult social care, it feels from where I sit, that control has completely overtaken any pretence of ‘choice’ in the so-called move towards more idealised ‘person-centred’ care and support planning. I hope I...

Published 12 Sep 2011 7:29 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, mental health, discrimination, local authority, old age, elderly, health, carer, direct payments, local government, Disability, Mental Health Foundation, personal, personal budget, resource allocation system, ras, burstow, the small places
Remembering 11th September and the aftermath

I don’t have any grand or notable memories from 11th September 2001. I wasn’t connected to New York in any personal way but this last Friday, after work, I spent the evening by coincidence with the friend whom I spent the evening of the 11th September...

Published 11 Sep 2011 7:26 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: personal, United States, 9/11, Canary Wharf, memorial, memories from september 11, New York, New York City, Pennsylvania, september 11 2001, September 11 attacks, World Trade Center
Interviews and Ideas

Please forgive the blatant self-promotion in this post but it’s Friday and I’m feeling a like I have a bit of a cold coming so I’m less ‘perky’ than usual. Dorlee from Social Work Career Development has published an interview which she did with me and...

Published 9 Sep 2011 6:58 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, health, Education, personal, Social media, social work and technology, psw, shirley ayres, social work career development blog, sw4sw
Why I’m wrong – A response from BASW

I am not going to add anything to this post. After I wrote a post explaining why I left BASW, I was sent this as a response and agreed to publish it. I’ll leave the questions and comments for others and I have asked that someone from BASW respond to any...

Published 8 Sep 2011 6:33 PM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, health, local government, Trade union, Employment, personal, British Association of Social Workers, basw, Association
Docking Benefits and Blaming the Poor

I know I covered this more generally on Monday in my rant about ‘benefits’ but it’s worth coming back to with the proposals explained in the Guardian Magistrates and crown court judges could be asked to dock benefits from convicted criminals under preliminary...

Published 8 Sep 2011 7:16 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, social issues, work, benefits, politics, london, social justice, Department for Work and Pensions, personal, david cameron, iain duncan-smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, evil tories, Crime, Riot, blame the poor, Kenneth Clarke
RIP NHS?

A truly national health service as conceived in the post-war years has been tottering on the brink for a number of years. As the previous Labour government sowed, so the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives will reap today as the NHS and Social Care...

Published 7 Sep 2011 7:16 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, work, mental health, politics, health, nhs, personal, david cameron, andrew lansley, lansley, destruction of the nhs, evil tories, end of the nhs
Why I Quit BASW (British Association of Social Workers)

I felt a tinge of sadness when I finally decided to quit BASW (British Association of Social Workers). I’ve been an advocate and member for a good few years and I have a great deal of respect for a lot of people who work there. I advised colleagues to...

Published 6 Sep 2011 6:18 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, health, Trade union, Unison, British Association of Social Workers, basw, college of social work, Professional association, leaving basw
Weekly Social Work Links 30

As the days become more distinctly autumnal, I’m sharing some interesting links I’ve come across over the last week. As always feel free to share any other links you find that are related or interesting in the comments section. I’m always wanting to find...

Published 4 Sep 2011 8:52 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, health, blogs, links, Social Sciences, Social Work Blogs, Child protection, social work links, weekly social work links, social work blogging, University of Kent
Online Learning and Social Work – A proposal

I’m on a theme at the moment so run with me. I have through various conversations that I’ve hooked into among Occupational Therapists come across this programme OT4OT (Online Technology for Occupational Therapists) connectlrmeli @ Flickr It is...

Published 2 Sep 2011 7:02 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, health, technology, Social Sciences, personal, Google, social work and technology, Associations, Occupational therapist, Occupational therapy, online forum for social work, Professions, social work webinar

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Goodbye

Choice, Control and Obfuscation – How the Personalisation Dream is Dying

Remembering 11th September and the aftermath

Interviews and Ideas

Why I’m wrong – A response from BASW

Docking Benefits and Blaming the Poor

RIP NHS?

Why I Quit BASW (British Association of Social Workers)

Weekly Social Work Links 30

Online Learning and Social Work – A proposal