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Social Care and NHS Reform: Good practice, bad management and old motorcycles

by Peter Beresford It's a long way from old British motorbikes to social care and the National Health Service - or is it? This is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the NHS, the organisation that proved there is an alternative to people only...

Published 30 Jun 2008 1:56 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Health, motorbikes, nhs reform, Peter Beresford, social care
Do social workers have to 'like' their clients?

By Peter Corser Social workers must hide their emotions in the cause of non-judgemental practice. But they don't have to "like" their clients... Read More...

Published 26 Jun 2008 11:33 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Adult care, clients, Peter Corser, service users, social work, Workforce
Police autonomy is the way forward for social work

by Steve Rogowski Under New Labour, there have been longstanding concerns in the public services about the amount of bureaucracy and resulting pre-occupation with paperwork, targets and performance indicators. Teachers, police officers, health and social...

Published 24 Jun 2008 6:17 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: iain ferguson, police, politics, Public Policy, social work, steve rogowski, Workforce
Mediaeval trial by ordeal for child protection social workers?

by Allan Norman "If we don't intervene, we don't know what we might find!" My discussion with the students was taking an interesting turn, as I tried to debate with them a case study of a chaotic and fluid household, in which nonetheless...

Published 24 Jun 2008 10:33 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, burden of proof, child protection, Re: B (Children)
Well done, Tyneside social workers!

by Allan Norman The short, public judgement in the case of Durham County Council v D & Ors [2008] EWHC 1306 (Fam) (11 June 2008) appears to have been issued for the sole purpose of praising the excellent social workers and other professionals in Tyneside...

Published 24 Jun 2008 9:33 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, justice munby, social workers, Tyneside
The care workers who fail in their duty

By Simon Heng I'm a service user because I'm physically disabled, paralysed from the neck downwards, the result of a tumour on my spinal cord, 14 years ago. I was one of the first people in my area to try direct payments and I'm one of its...

Published 23 Jun 2008 3:39 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Carers, Direct payments, Personalisation, simon heng, Workforce
Plans and targets: remember the human factor

Social care needs plans but we should subordinate them to the realities of being human - after all we can't all hit our targets. By Nigel Leaney Read More...

Published 17 Jun 2008 12:19 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Adult care, cpas, God, Mental Health, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Nigel Leaney, Personalisation, planning, plans, politics, Public Policy, risk assessments, targets
Personalisation, practice and opening up the debate

by Peter Beresford Something rather worrying currently seems to be happening to personalisation. It's unlikely that many social care managers or professionals have managed to avoid this terms in 2008. This hideous piece of jargon has increasingly...

Published 16 Jun 2008 4:35 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Adult care, Mental Health, Personalisation, Peter Beresford
Reflecting on Bridgend: Tackling suicides amongst young people

by Sarah Brennan, chief executive, YoungMinds There are a number of reasons why young people may consider taking their own lives. Young people approaching adulthood are at a pivotal stage. They can be more impulsive, and may need more support than they...

Published 12 Jun 2008 5:42 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: bridgend, Mental Health, Sarah Brennan, suicide, young minds
Stress and drugs and rock n' roll

One by one the vices that relieved stress for the poor are being denied them. Fags, booze and now food are in the firing line, writes Simon Stevens Read More...

Published 11 Jun 2008 5:38 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: alcohol, drugs, food, Health, Poverty, simon stevens, smoking, stress
Autism: a day in the life of George

By Jennifer Harvey A flick-through of the newspaper obituaries marks the start of George's day. But it is in the evening that he really lets rip... Read More...

Published 10 Jun 2008 11:49 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Adult care, Autism, Mental Health
The wrong kind of domestic violence survivor?

by Allan Norman If domestic violence reduction initiatives reflect commitment to the cause, then it is high up on the government's agenda. The recent Practice Direction 'Residence and Contact Orders: Domestic Violence and Harm' emanated not...

Published 9 Jun 2008 11:49 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, Domestic violence, housing benefit, imkaan, refuges, residence and contact orders
Who won Lisa Arthurworrey's appeal?

by Allan Norman Who will be pleased by the decision of the Care Standards Tribunal on Lisa Arthurworrey's registration ? The GSCC? Apparently not. They have said they are disappointed . Read More...

Published 6 Jun 2008 3:28 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, Care Standards Tribunal, General Social Care Council, Lisa Arthurworrey
My problem with trade unions

by Simon Stevens One of the interesting things to come out of personalisation is that suddenly trade unions have pricked up their ears and want a piece of the action after failing to recognise personal assistants for the past few decades. Read More.....

Published 2 Jun 2008 1:23 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: disability, simon stevens, trade unions, Workforce

June 2008 - The Social Care Experts Blog

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Social Care and NHS Reform: Good practice, bad management and old motorcycles

Do social workers have to 'like' their clients?

Police autonomy is the way forward for social work

Mediaeval trial by ordeal for child protection social workers?

Well done, Tyneside social workers!

The care workers who fail in their duty

Plans and targets: remember the human factor

Personalisation, practice and opening up the debate

Reflecting on Bridgend: Tackling suicides amongst young people

Stress and drugs and rock n' roll

Autism: a day in the life of George

The wrong kind of domestic violence survivor?

Who won Lisa Arthurworrey's appeal?

My problem with trade unions