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Solace in Support

David Clark, the Chief Executive of SOLACE (Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers) has made a splash by dipping his toe into the world of blogging by tackling the challenges of social work in the face of a lack of political support...

Published 2 Jun 2009 6:12 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, local authority, local government, blog, Child, baby p, Child protection, Ed Balls, david clark solace, Chief executive officer, david clark, solace

Miscellany

Something of a hotch-potch of a post today – I hope I can be forgiven a little stream of consciousness relating to some thoughts and stories that have caught my attention. Simeon Brody at Mad World points out a rather narrow-minded article in the New...

Published 22 Apr 2009 6:53 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, london, local government, Age Concern, personal, Child protection, Guardian, social work taskforce, the budget, mind journalist of the year, action for children, chancellor of the exchequer, moira gibb, mind champion of the year

The cost of vacancies

Community Care published some research they carried out yesterday which found that there is a 10.9% vacancy rate for social workers in England – rising to 18.6% vacancy rate in London. They also publish a breakdown of individual councils – at least those...

Published 17 Apr 2009 6:37 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, local authority, london, local government, social worker, community care, England, Child protection, social work vacancies, lack of social workers, recruitment crisis in social work, Recruitment, the social work blog

Ostriches in Social Work

A couple of stories have emerged over the past week about social workers who have been disciplined for ignoring referrals. There is the case of Joy Coles who has been removed from the social care register thereby being unable to work in the capacity of...

Published 13 Apr 2009 6:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, uk, England, baby p, Haringey, Child protection, essex county council, restructuring, joy coles, haringey council

Of Public Image and Social Work

Community Care launch their ‘Stand Up for Social Work’ campaign today. The aim is to focus on poor media images and misconceptions of social workers and to promote positive social work stories to the media and possibly even, dare I say it...

Published 12 Mar 2009 5:36 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, Education, Child protection, Ed Balls, deirdre sanders, positive images of social work, sun agony aunt, media campaign, community care magazine, stand up for social work campaign, ed balls idiot

Balls

Image via Wikipedia Ed Balls irritates me. It isn’t perhaps the most measured judgement, I accept that, but every time now I see his name in any form of media representation, a little part of me cringes and mutters away to myself in language that...

Published 6 Mar 2009 5:38 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, social issues, work, politics, General Social Care Council, baby p, Child protection, Ed Balls, Sun, Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families, ed balls criticism of social work

Media Spins, Private Fostering and a Prayer

The British Association for Adoption and Fostering ran a campaign last week to raise awareness of private fostering. As explained by the Fostering Network Private fostering is when a child under the age of 16 (18 if disabled) lives with someone who is...

Published 2 Feb 2009 6:21 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, nursing, discrimination, politics, uk, rant, United Kingdom, nurse, daily mail, newspaper, Child protection, Foster care, Clevedon, religious nurse, daily mail trash

Asking for help

The Guardian has an article today explaining about how Haringey, in the fallout from the failing Child Protection services, issued an email to every other London Borough, asking for ‘one good quality person’ (namely a social worker) from each...

Published 26 Jan 2009 7:14 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, local authority, politics, london, uk, local government, Unison, personal, Haringey, Child protection, London Borough of Haringey

Training at the Top

Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children has announced a new training package for the Heads of Children’s Services throughout the UK. The Guardian reports that this is to plug the gap of skills as since the creation of the Children’s...

Published 9 Jan 2009 6:59 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social care, social work, work, United Kingdom, Education, local government, baby p, Haringey, Child protection, Ed Balls, children's services, retraining

Television

I saw ‘How Mad are You?’ last night. I’m going to reserve judgement until next week. It seemed a bit uncomfortable and I was trying to work out what the point of it was. Was it for entertainment? or to challenge stigma? Anyway, I’ll...

Published 12 Nov 2008 6:30 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: social work, work, social services, baby p, Haringey, Child Protective Services, Child abuse, Child protection

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