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Shoesmith, Balls and Appeals

I was trying to steer away from discussion of the Shoesmith’s appeal against her dismissal by Haringey Council (via Ed Balls, the responsible Cabinet minister at the time) and her victory in the Court of Appeal – but having followed the case from the...

Published 31 May 2011 6:50 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: baby p, Child protection, court of appeal, Death of Baby P, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, Haringey London Borough Council, London Borough of Haringey, Ofsted, personal, peter connolly, politics, scapegoating, serious case reviews, Sharon Shoesmith, shoesmith, social work, the sun, work
Report Reporting

So the Task Force report yesterday was pretty much as predicted. Personally, I think a lot of the contents are very welcome with the main concern being the lack of money to implement them – but I’m willing to engage positively with the process of change...

Published 2 Dec 2009 7:29 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Best Interests Assessor, community care, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, personal, peter beresford, politics, Ray Jones, social care, social issues, social work, social work task force, social work taskforce, social work taskforce final report, the guardian, uk, work
Deirdre Sanders, the GSCC Conference and the Social Work Taskforce

I’ve written before about the invitation made by the GSCC (General Social Care Council – the regulatory authority for Social Workers and Social Care Workers) to invite speak at their conference. Ed chatting with Deirdre Deirdre Sanders is employed by...

Published 7 Oct 2009 7:04 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: agony aunt, british social work, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, General Social Care Council, general social care council conference, gscc conference, gscc., health, local authority, local government, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social services, social work, social work taskforce, work
The Mess of the GSCC

The General Social Care Council really has got itself in a pickle. A particularly unrepresentative quango established by the government to regulate social care and social work professionals (in England as the other constituent countries in the UK have...

Published 27 Aug 2009 7:09 PM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: agony aunt, basw, British Association of Social Workers, chief executive, deirdre sanders, General Social Care Council, gscc annual conference, gscc., local authority, mike wardle, paul philip, personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, social work taskforce, the sun, work
Dear Deirdre

Dear Deirdre I suppose you are making an effort with your survey on the Sun website asking readers to tell you all that is wrong with social work. Personally though, I find it insulting that you were given a place on the Social Work Taskforce that is...

Published 1 May 2009 5:49 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: dear deirdre, deirdre, deirdre sanders, Guardian, insulting social workers, mental health, newspaper, social work, social work taskforce, Sun, sun agony aunt, survey, work
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: Child protection, community care magazine, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, ed balls idiot, Education, media campaign, positive images of social work, social work, stand up for social work campaign, sun agony aunt, work
Follow The Sun

Yesterday the make up of the shiny new government Task Force on Social Work was announced. This is a focus group who are to be involved in the ‘root and branch’ review of front-line practice of the Social Work profession as a whole in the...

Published 27 Jan 2009 6:15 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: agony aunt, Alan Johnson, change in social work, deirdre sanders, Ed Balls, personal, politics, Secretary of State for Children Schools and Families, Secretary of State for Health, social care, social issues, social work, social work taskforce, Sun, task force, uk, uk social work, work

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Report Reporting

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The Mess of the GSCC

Dear Deirdre

Of Public Image and Social Work

Follow The Sun