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Happy Birthday, Human Rights!

by Allan Norman Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , arguably still the most important human rights declaration. Yesterday, I was speaking about rights without remedies, and the Universal Declaration seemed an obvious...

Published 10 Dec 2008 12:07 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, ifsw, Human rights, universal declaration of human rights, Human Rights Act, basw code of ethics
Service users' rights when illegal presence is settled and stable

by Allan Norman My colleague Yasmeen Qazi - a social worker and solicitor like myself - has recently been able to positively clarify rights to social services when a potential service user's presence here is both settled and stable on the one hand...

Published 6 Dec 2008 10:37 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, destitution, legal, Human rights, family life
Social Care, Compensation, and the Archon of Athens

by Allan Norman It is allegedly Solon of Athens (c 638-558 BC) who we have to thank for having introduced the right of citizens to sue each other. Apart from lawyers, it is doubtful whether even those who participate in such litigation greet this development...

Published 30 Nov 2008 11:29 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: social care, Allan Norman, legal, compensation, negligence
Social work after Baby P: the direction must change

by John Hemming, Allan Norman and Sue White There have been many reports in the last year about 'false positives', where the state intervenes when it shouldn't. What is often missed is that the issue of 'false negatives', where the...

Published 26 Nov 2008 2:54 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, child protection, Baby P, ics, Sue White, John Hemming
Giving the children a bloody nose

by Allan Norman Three questions: When will we be able to know that Adam Rickwood's death was not in vain? How should a social worker running a Secure Training Centre approach human rights? And would you remove a child from a parent who calculatingly...

Published 20 Nov 2008 9:20 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, legal, Human rights, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, restraint, Trevor Wilson-Smith, secure training centres, Adam Rickwood
Is CareSpace a libel-free zone?

by Allan Norman I once observed that a fellow social worker had posted a defamatory comment online here. Community Care - understandably cautious, when a lawyer makes such an observation to the world at large - removed the defamatory content, although...

Published 13 Nov 2008 9:58 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, legal, blogging, slander, libel, defamation
The Poppy - A Symbol

by Allan Norman Reflections on the symbolism of the poppy The Poppy - A Symbol of Our Times The Guardian - 10th November 2007. A soldier patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan. A headline - "Pay Them Not To Grow Poppies". We will remember the...

Published 5 Nov 2008 4:33 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, poppy
Respecting the child's wishes

by Allan Norman So, you are satisfied that the child is likely to suffer significant harm, and that a care order is apropriate. Inconveniently, the child's clear preference is to stay with her mother. Hardly a unique situation. What do you do? This...

Published 23 Oct 2008 6:03 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, child protection, legal, care orders
Social Worker - an unwanted job title?

by Allan Norman In an idle moment, I reviewed the job titles offered by the nearly 300 delegates to BASW England's conference last week. It's less than scientific, but I reckon to have found 131 different job titles, or one for every 2.3 delegates...

Published 15 Oct 2008 10:37 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: social work, Allan Norman, social workers, protection of title
Esther takes on the PC Brigade

by Allan Norman Last week, l watched Esther Rantzen take on what the programme writers decided to label "the PC brigade" . Now I know I am writing for a social work audience, and I have seen the controversy generated by her documentary elsewhere...

Published 7 Oct 2008 8:08 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, child protection, Esther Rantzen, political correctness
Happy Retirement, and Thank You

by Allan Norman A colleague of mine recently decided to retire from social work after more than 40 years of service. She wrote to the General Social Care Council, to advise them of her decision, and took the opportunity to thank them for their role in...

Published 1 Oct 2008 11:41 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, General Social Care Council
Every Child - without any Reservation - Matters

by Allan Norman This week, the UK Government finally announced it is to begin the process of lifting the Reservations it put in place when signing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child . This is a move that has been widely welcomed and commended...

Published 27 Sep 2008 3:17 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, legal, Human rights, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Every Child Matters, universal declaration of human rights
Commentary on this year's 2,496th new piece of secondary legislation

by Allan Norman Yesterday, the National Health Service (Directions by Strategic Health Authorities to Primary Care Trusts Regarding Arrangements for Involvement) Regulations 2008 were laid before Parliament. Did you know? Do you care? Has it anything...

Published 24 Sep 2008 6:57 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: service users, Allan Norman, legal, legislation
Mauling the guide dog: disability discrimination revisited

by Allan Norman I've written before about the dog in the night-time . The dog in the day-time is proving curious too. It features in a most surprising way in the judgement of the House of Lords in London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm [2008] UKHL 43...

Published 18 Sep 2008 2:46 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: disability, Allan Norman, legal, Disability Discrimination Act, Malcolm, lewisham
The law on avoiding responsibility

by Allan Norman Many civil court cases boil down to arguments over money. Even those with origins in arguments about injury to person or reputation end up with arguments about the financial value of the harm. When a case is genuinely about - for example...

Published 17 Sep 2008 4:50 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, legal, local authorities
I'm still allowed to blog!

by Allan Norman Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong How can the law forbid my tongue to curse? Shakespeare, King John, Act III, Scene I The judgement of the Scottish High Court of Justiciary last month in Anwar, Re Possible Contempt Of Court...

Published 5 Sep 2008 9:35 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: media, Allan Norman, legal, Aemer Anwar, freedom of speech, blogging
Children's Databases, Lost Datasticks, and 'Informational' Social Work

by Allan Norman I took part in an opinion poll recently, where I was asked questions about who I would trust with my data. Banks? The Health Service? The local authority? Education institutions? The government? My answer was, "none". My answer...

Published 27 Aug 2008 2:54 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, child protection, legal, british journal social work, children's database, data protection
The harm of honesty

by Allan Norman There is a fascinating thread on CareSpace, discussing letters sent to survivors of domestic violence following police referral . While it started as a discussion of the appropriateness of such letters, there is a signifcant debate about...

Published 14 Aug 2008 6:28 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, Domestic violence, harm, lying
Rationing, Art and Unexpected Beauty

by Allan Norman Art featured prominently in our recent course on rationing . Classical Art. Modern Art. Even Cartoons. But the frontispiece was this photography project image from a young person taking part in a community project. The images as a whole...

Published 7 Aug 2008 10:55 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, rationing, art
Sick asylum seekers: Somebody Else's Problem

by Allan Norman Somebody Else's Problem, according to Douglas Adams, can easily be run off a single torch battery for over a hundred years. Hardly surprising, if the judgement of the House of Lords in M, R (On The Application of) v Slough Borough...

Published 7 Aug 2008 7:41 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, destitution, asylum, National Assistance Act, M v Slough
Outsourcing Abuse

by Allan Norman There I was, only yesterday, flippantly comparing caselaw developments for destitute asylum seekers to a particularly abstruse game of Mornington Crescent . I ended by observing: Warning: you should not play 'Destitution at Mornington...

Published 15 Jul 2008 11:27 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, asylum seekers, asylum, Outsourcing Abuse
Destitution at Mornington Crescent

Some will know this tube station lies on the Northern Line between Euston and Camden Town, but only if playing by the 'Charing Cross Branch' Rules. More of you will have heard of the Radio 4 panel show game, played by other rules. The game is...

Published 14 Jul 2008 6:34 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Allan Norman, Poverty, destitution, legal, Westminster, Islington, Haringey, Croydon, Slough, asylum seekers, asylum, pajaziti, Lambeth
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, Re: B (Children), child protection
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, Tyneside, justice munby, social workers
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, imkaan, residence and contact orders, housing benefit, refuges, Domestic violence
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, Lisa Arthurworrey, General Social Care Council, Care Standards Tribunal

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