Browse by Tags

The Social Care Experts Blog

Home

Report this Blog for Abuse

Syndication

Archives

Bang the drum ourselves

by Peter Beresford Service users must redouble their efforts to back personalisation because policymakers' initial enthusiasm appears to be waning. Earlier this year, individual budgets were heralded as the reform that would transform social care...

Published 3 Dec 2008 11:50 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Peter Beresford, Personalisation, individual budgets
Learning from each other: service user input into social work training

by Peter Beresford Travel broadens the mind, but it's often more difficult for service users. There's an obvious reason for many people - they don't have enough money to get about much. Some are also restricted by failures to ensure access...

Published 1 Dec 2008 11:45 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Peter Beresford, service users, social work practice, Baby P, students, user involvement, Swedish social work
Remaking the future of social care and personalisation: Listen to what people say

by Peter Beresford There's a simple truth emerging about the future of social work and social care. As service users, practitioners and carers, people clearly want the greater choice and control that 'personalisation' promises to offer. Well...

Published 26 Sep 2008 12:14 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: social care, Peter Beresford, service users, Personalisation, practice, Commission
A clash of philosophies?

By Peter Beresford In discussions about the reform of adult services notions of "care" and "independence" seem counterposed. They don't need to be. Read More...

Published 17 Sep 2008 7:13 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Peter Beresford, Adult care, adults services
Pubic Hair And Social Work: An unconsidered connection

By Peter Beresford So what's pubic hair got to do with social work? Well, to be truthful, until the other day, probably like you, I'd never really thought that there was much connection. Now though I am beginning to wonder. Maybe there is actually...

Published 10 Sep 2008 5:06 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Peter Beresford, social work, pubic hair, paedophilia, women, shaving, social work practice
It's now getting personal

By Peter Beresford Social workers are seen as the baddy in the personalisation debate perhaps because they are no longer care managers Read More...

Published 5 Sep 2008 11:55 AM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: Peter Beresford, Personalisation, adult social care, Department of Health
Social Work And Social Care: Time to learn something from the Olympic spirit?

by Peter Beresford I never expected to hear myself say it, but the Beijing Olympics have given me a whole new sense of proportion. Suddenly I feel I have a proper perspective on issues of social care and human needs. Read More...

Published 27 Aug 2008 12:43 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: social care, Peter Beresford, social work, Mental Health, Poverty, olympic games, paralympics
Social Work Practice, 'Place-Shaping' And Some Worrying Contradictions

by Peter Beresford Holidays are with us again and for me it's back to the South Norfolk coast and the joys of Hemsby, Scratby, Caister and Great Yarmouth. But somehow as you'll see, switching off social work and social care is never easy. Read...

Published 11 Aug 2008 3:48 PM by The Social Care Experts Blog

Filed under: social care, Peter Beresford, Public Policy, place-shaping
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, social care, motorbikes, Peter Beresford, nhs reform
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: Peter Beresford, Adult care, Personalisation, Mental Health

Browse by Tags

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Archives