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Forget me not

by Anabel Unity Sale We all have days when we forget things we have said and done - or at least we want to. There was the time when I walked into a meeting at a local authority - which shall remain nameless to protect the innocent - in order to interview...

Published 29 May 2008 4:51 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Alzheimer's disease, anabel unity sale, Department of Health, older people
Community Care Live 2008 - Question Time: the video

by Simeon Brody Community Care Live 2008, was one of the biggest and best conferences Community Care has ever organised. And as ever, one of the highlights of the event was the Question Time session chaired by BBC journalist Jeremy Vine. Read More...

Published 29 May 2008 12:30 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008, jeremy vine, simeon brody, social care, social work, social workers
Jumping the gun on child's death

How many vulnerable children will die before these lessons are finally learnt? Thus speaks a Daily Mail comment piece today in relation to the tragic case of Khyra Ishaq, a seven-year-old girl who died in hospital over the weekend in Birmingham. This...

Published 22 May 2008 9:27 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Birmingham children's services, child protection, Daily Mail, Mithran Samuel, victoria climbie
Cameron gets Tories back to basics

by Mike McNabb Just when we thought that David Cameron had broken with tradition he does us all a favour and reverts to Tory type. Read More...

Published 21 May 2008 12:04 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Conservative Party, David Cameron, Equality, families, Iain Duncan Smith, Mike McNabb
Anti-Gypsy violence in Italy is warning for UK

by Mike McNabb If Nero fiddled while Rome burned, one wonders what form of inaction the old emperor would have taken in Naples in the past week. Read More...

Published 20 May 2008 12:42 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Barking and Dagenham Council, BNP, ethnic minorities, Gypsies, Italy, Mike McNabb
Social care conference catering: curried parsnip v jammie dodgers

by Daniel Lombard Ask any reporters who've covered conferences, particularly the ones involving overnight stays, and they'll tell you that most of the time, they can't wait to get away. Last month came one glorious exception: the Association...

Published 19 May 2008 4:11 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: adass, association of directors of adult services, BASW, british association of social workers, catering, daniel lombard, personalisation, social workers
Iceland, single mums, happy families

by Adam McCulloch High divorce rate, high birth rate, a large proportion of single mothers... I must be writing about a place beset with crime, poverty, delinquency and misery. But no, this is a description of Iceland, apparently the happiest place on...

Published 19 May 2008 12:29 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, children, children and young people, divorce, families, iceland, international, overseas, single mothers, the observer
CC Live: Risk Factor - violence against social workers

By Mike McNabb Violence against social care staff has been in the news again so if I were a tad worried about my chances of surviving a home visit intact, Ray Braithwaite would be a useful mentor to have. Read More...

Published 15 May 2008 3:31 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Adult Green Paper

By Mike McNabb Adult care has hit the headlines again with prime minister Gordon Brown wanting to open a debate on its future. It was a debate welcomed by Stephen Burke, chief executive of Counsel and Care . Read More...

Published 15 May 2008 1:15 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Beverley Hughes speaks

By Mike McNabb Are politicians losing their appeal? Of course they are, they have been shedding it for eons. But when children's minister Beverley Hughes gave her keynote address today, one would have thought an auditorium that seats 500 could have...

Published 15 May 2008 12:01 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Question Time

How many Daily Mail readers were at Community Care Live? The safe answer is "not many". The bold answer is "quite a few". Perhaps I am about to commit mass libel, but some social workers must read it, even in a covert operation by...

Published 15 May 2008 11:00 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Domestic violence

By Mike McNabb It is an age-old problem but it is only in the past 30 years or so that domestic violence has become accepted as a major social issue. And the understanding of the effect it has on children is even more recent. Read More...

Published 14 May 2008 4:46 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Personalisation - Workforce implications

By Mike McNabb Most commentators agree that personalisation is the greatest shake-up in service provision since the launch of the welfare state but it turns out it is fraught with dilemmas. Read More...

Published 14 May 2008 11:22 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: Gang warfare or a war on gangs?

By Mike McNabb It was timely in a tragic sense that a discussion on gang warfare should take place in London. Thirteen teenagers have fallen victims of violent deaths on the capital¹s streets this year, although not all of them were gang-related. But...

Published 14 May 2008 11:20 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: The personalisation revolution

by Mike McNabb Personalisation. How inelegant can a buzzword be? But it is one whose workings were explored elegantly by a panel of experts: Read More...

Published 14 May 2008 11:18 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
CC Live: A World Away

by Mike McNabb Tired of the right-wing media hype about those dastardly asylum seekers (whoops, nearly fell into the propaganda trap there), it was refreshing to hear the voices of a group of people who actually wanted to do something positive. In this...

Published 14 May 2008 11:16 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
Community Care Live: Keynote address

by Mike McNabb Glen Mason, director of social care leadership and performance at the Department of Health, opened the 12th Community Care Live by describing Gordon Brown's desire to put a new focus on social care this week as an exciting development...

Published 14 May 2008 11:12 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Community Care Live 2008
No excuses for paedophiles

by Natalie Valios Occasionally, decisions by the judiciary make my heart sink. A case in point is the story in today’s papers which reports on a court case involving 20-year-old Jon Dixon who tried to rape an 11-year-old girl. Read More...

Published 9 May 2008 4:00 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: child protection, Judge Robert Atherton; Jon Dixon; attempted rape; paedophile
Competing agenda once again?

by Amy Taylor This week home secretary Jacqui Smith has announced a new crackdown on antisocial behaviour by persistant offenders . Under the plans 'action squads' will work with the police in every community to reduce antisocial behviour by carrying...

Published 9 May 2008 3:35 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: antisocial behaviour, Jacqui Smith, the youth justice board, young offenders
Alcohol, crime, justice and sexism

by Anabel Unity Sale Three drunk women, aged 37, 39 and 41, were filmed on CCTV mugging a man , also drunk, of his wallet. He was punched and kicked by one of the women before the other two stole from him. Read More...

Published 9 May 2008 3:04 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: alcohol, anabel unity sale, crime, Criminal justice, offenders, violence
Michael Heseltine's drug's strategy: hit the Chelsea party set!

by Adam McCulloch On last night's Question Time (BBC1) Michael Heseltine, in answer to a question on the government's cannabis u-turn, put the surprising view that any successful drugs strategy should “start at the top”. He singled out the “Chelsea...

Published 9 May 2008 11:11 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, Addiction, BBC1, drugs, Media, Menzies Campbell, michael heseltine, Piers Morgan, Politics, Question Time, Rachel Johnson, television programme
Famine stalks the world

By Keith Sellick A story in the Financial Times about social workers in the Philippines handing out cheap rice shows how the global explosion of food and energy prices are impacting on the poor; and those who work with them. Read More...

Published 8 May 2008 12:40 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Politics
Craig Bellamy's football, education and health plan in Sierra Leone

by Adam McCulloch Do you think that Premiership footballers are overpaid, flashy, disrespectful, foul-mouthed and arrogant, only interested in money, nightclubs, betting and women? Well, think again. Craig Bellamy, a player who in the past might have...

Published 6 May 2008 3:10 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, children and young people, sport
Tears of a Clown

By Andrew Mickel So the once-Iron Chancellor has a heart, according to care services minister Ivan Lewis, who is claiming that Gordon Brown cried after reading testimonies from children with learning disabilities. Read More...

Published 2 May 2008 11:11 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Politics
Birmingham: my kind of town

By Keith Sellick I had to share this with you Telly Savalas does a travelogue for Birmingham . I have been laughing at it for days. The idea of Kojak on the mean streets of Britain's second city. Apparently he also did Portsmouth and Aberdeen Read...

Published 1 May 2008 4:19 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: birmingham, humour, keith sellick, Telly Savalas
Personalisation - a social care revolution

by Simeon Brody I went to a Community Care conference yesterday about personalisation in adult services. It was a really interesting event and one of the most popular Com Care has ever run - so there's obviously a lot of people out there who want...

Published 1 May 2008 12:57 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: direct payments, individual budgets, martin routledge, melaine henwood, personalisation, simeon brody, social workers
Mayday: time to defeat Boris Johnson

By Keith Sellick Mayday: a workers' celebration. Some very fine articles here on the history and meaning of 1 May. Read More...

Published 1 May 2008 11:27 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: boris johnson, Internationale, keith sellick, May Day, Mayday, Politics

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Forget me not

Community Care Live 2008 - Question Time: the video

Jumping the gun on child's death

Cameron gets Tories back to basics

Anti-Gypsy violence in Italy is warning for UK

Social care conference catering: curried parsnip v jammie dodgers

Iceland, single mums, happy families

CC Live: Risk Factor - violence against social workers

CC Live: Adult Green Paper

CC Live: Beverley Hughes speaks

CC Live: Question Time

CC Live: Domestic violence

CC Live: Personalisation - Workforce implications

CC Live: Gang warfare or a war on gangs?

CC Live: The personalisation revolution

CC Live: A World Away

Community Care Live: Keynote address

No excuses for paedophiles

Competing agenda once again?

Alcohol, crime, justice and sexism

Michael Heseltine's drug's strategy: hit the Chelsea party set!

Famine stalks the world

Craig Bellamy's football, education and health plan in Sierra Leone

Tears of a Clown

Birmingham: my kind of town

Personalisation - a social care revolution

Mayday: time to defeat Boris Johnson