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• Assumptions

  I work in the inner city and have since I did my first practice placement in the first year of my social work course almost 10 years ago now.  For as long as I have been working as a social worker , I have only ever worked in the inner city - different... Posted Jul 01 2008, 05:27 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, mental health, old age, elderly, health, caregivers, carer, alzheimers, social services, United Kingdom, respite care, family, residential respite, assumptions, options for care, respite, domiciliary respite

• Direct Payments - Chapter One

  Direct Payments is the system of, basically, rather than giving a direct service, providing money to the user of the service to ‘buy’ the care that they need directly. ‘Direct Payments were introduced in the UK - for adults with a disability... Posted Jun 26 2008, 05:10 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, carers, old age, uk, caregivers, carer, alzheimers, direct payments, care services, carers direct payments, carers assessment, choice

• Caring for Carers

  This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy... Posted Jun 11 2008, 06:03 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social issues, older people, work, carers, socialcare, old age, benefits, politics, elderly, uk, health, caregivers, carer, rethink, respite care

• Help to care

  I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need... Posted Jun 04 2008, 05:40 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, carers, local authority, old age, benefits, long-term care, uk, caregivers, carer, institute for public policy research, carers allowance, direct payments, social services, personalised budget, adult care, direct payment

• Ageism - the ‘acceptable’ face of prejudice

  Social workers are supposed to be a liberal group. We are trained extensively in anti-discriminatory practice. I can’t imagine there are any social work courses in the country that don’t, at least explore, the implications of discrimination... Posted May 26 2008, 06:14 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, carers, discrimination, ageism, old age, elders, rant, caregivers, prejudice, nhs