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Lisa Arthurworrey: an apology

by Bronagh Miskelly In this week's Community Care magazine (11 March 2010) an unfortunate error has occurred. In the headline for the story about Lisa Arthurworrey joining the social work register the words "Harringey social worker" were...

Published 10 Mar 2010 11:43 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, Haringey, Lisa Arthurworrey, social workers

CC teams up with LGA to improve understanding of social work

The Local Government Association is inviting directors of children's services to join the debate about improving public understanding of social work. Community Care's editor, Bronagh Miskelly, will be among the guest panellists at the LGA event...

Published 10 Feb 2010 12:05 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, daniel lombard, LGA, stand up now for social work

Loose Woman supports social care

Lynda Bellingham , Oxo mum, Strictly Come Dancing star and one ITV's Loose Women, is standing up for social care. The actress grabbed the microphone back at the end of the National Children and Adult Service Conference session on the dementia strategy...

Published 22 Oct 2009 3:45 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: ageing, Alzheimer's, Bronagh Miskelly, dementia, Lynda Bellingham, social care

Phil Hope's NCASC marathon

Care service minister Phil Hope certainly put in the miles for this year's National Children and Adult Services Conference in Harrogate. On Wednesday he had planned to speak at a number of events. He managed to give an interview to Community Care...

Published 22 Oct 2009 1:36 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, NCASC, Phil Hope, Politics, social care, Westminster

To ring-fence or not to ring-fence

Ring-fencing remains the difficult question for social care. At the National Children and Adult Services Conference in Harrogate the thorny issue of the £150m funding for the dementia strategy - what some people describe as the "missing £150m"...

Published 22 Oct 2009 1:34 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Andrew Landsley, Bronagh Miskelly, Conservatives, funding, Labour, NCASC, Phil Hope, public health

The Deidre Debate: should the Sun's agony aunt be allowed to speak?

by Bronagh Miskelly The decision by the GSCC to invite Sun agony aunt Deidre Sanders to speak at it conferenc e was inevitably going to be controversial , it would have been foolish to expect anything else. I should know - the decision to ask Sanders...

Published 2 Oct 2009 11:01 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, deidre sanders, General Social Care Council, gscc, Media, social work, social workers, stand up now for social work, The Sun, workforce

Significant flaws in Ed Balls' fast-track social work plan

by Bronagh Miskelly At first glance the idea of a training scheme designed to convert other professionals, such as teachers or lawyers, into social workers seems like a positive step - after all it has worked in teaching and to a certain extent in medicine...

Published 13 Jul 2009 3:40 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, ed balls, Recruitment, social work, training

No glamour in social work? What about Mariah Carey?

By Bronagh Miskelly Mariah Carey has shed her glamourous image to play a dowdy social worker according to the Daily Mail . Read More...

Published 15 May 2009 2:37 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, mariah carey, social work, social workers, workforce

Social work needs you

writes Bronagh Miskelly Community Care is calling on everyone to Stand Up Now for Social Work in a bid to breakdown media stereotypes and give a voice to the profession. Now it seems the message is resonating with others as we report a ! urry of activity...

Published 6 May 2009 5:50 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: BASW, Bronagh Miskelly, Social Work Taskforce, stand up now for social work

We can't afford to wait

By Bronagh Miskelly Reshaping the adult care services workforce "so that it has the right people with the right skills undertaking the roles and tasks which people using services want". This is one of the key principles behind Working to Put...

Published 29 Apr 2009 11:34 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: adult social care, BASW, Bronagh Miskelly, Department of Health, Social Work Taskforce, Working to Put People First

Merger must be of equals

By Bronagh Miskelly There are arguments for the amalgamation of health and adult social care regulation into a single body - the Care Quality Commission, launched this week. Through multi-disciplinary working, joint needs assessments and collaboration...

Published 1 Apr 2009 3:25 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, CQC, lord laming

What about the workers?

by Bronagh Miskelly Probably the most important resource for any successful organisation is its staff, but a skilled workforce does not appear spontaneously fully-formed. It requires investment just as much, if not more so, than a computer system. Read...

Published 24 Mar 2009 12:03 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: british association of social workers, Bronagh Miskelly, Chidren's Workforce development council, Social Work Taskforce

Now for implementation

by Bronagh Miskelly Disappointment for some, a realistic appraisal for others - Lord Laming's report, The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report will have had a mixed reaction. Those with knowledge of or an interest in the nitty-gritty...

Published 18 Mar 2009 10:58 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, laming report

Laming report: From inquisition to happy every after?

by Bronagh Miskelly Disappointment for some, a realistic appraisal for others - Lord Laming's report , The Protection of Children in England: A Progress Report will have had a mixed reaction. Read More...

Published 12 Mar 2009 4:47 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, Laming inquiry, Politics, safeguarding, serious case review, social work, social workers, training, workforce

University Challenge

By Bronagh Miskelly At a time when Community Care is reporting high vacancy rates and social worker shortages on an almost daily basis, it seems extraordinary to hear of a university axing its social work degree programme . And yet that is exactly what...

Published 25 Feb 2009 8:10 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, course closure, Reading University

Solution already exists for A&E child protection checks

By Bronagh Miskelly Oh for some joined up government - perhaps just some joined up Department of Health thinking. Read More...

Published 19 Feb 2009 1:31 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: A&E, Baby P, Bronagh Miskelly, child protection, Department of Health, NHS

National Dementia Strategy needs to ease the fear of diagnosis

by Bronagh Miskelly The huge task of reforming dementia services in England has begun with the much delayed launch of the National Dementia Strategy (it was even at risk from further snow-related delays). There is funding - £150m over the first two years...

Published 3 Feb 2009 5:21 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, dementia

CSCI signs off with gusto

writes Bronagh Miskelly When someone is leaving a job or indeed the job is being abolished, it is an opportune time to say what you really think and, to an extent, so it is with the Commission for Social Care Inspection's final report. On personalisation...

Published 28 Jan 2009 9:38 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, Care Quality Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection

Plans lack 'wow' factor

writes Bronagh Miskelly It will not come as much of a surprise to learn that the Valuing People Now strategy and delivery documents hold little in the way of surprises. The priorities for the next three years have been heavily trailed - so, as expected...

Published 21 Jan 2009 8:44 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, funding, Valuing People Now

History repeats itself

writes Bronagh Miskelly The three published serious case reviews that make up part of the seven serious child protection incidents that have prompted the independent inquiry into Doncaster Council's children's services department reveal, yet again...

Published 13 Jan 2009 12:30 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, Doncaster Council

Grasp the opportunity

by Bronagh Miskelly Look at the news reports and expert opinion published in Community Care online and in print - or read some of the workforce threads in our online forum, CareSpace - and it won't take long to establish some common themes about the...

Published 10 Dec 2008 8:29 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, social work, social workers

Careful with the kindness

by Bronagh Miskelly When is it right to stick your hand in your pocket for a client? The odd pint of milk or loaf of bread in an emergency is one thing, but does paying for a pair of curtains cross the line of a professional relationship? Read More.....

Published 13 Nov 2008 9:48 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, funding

Baby P: Recruiting a professional workforce in the face of scandal

by Bronagh Miskelly One of the messages from the serious case review of the Baby P case is that problems arose from personal errors of judgement rather than a systemic or procedural failure. In fact some commentators are arguing that the errors of judgement...

Published 12 Nov 2008 5:28 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Bronagh Miskelly, child protection, children and young people, Harringey, Media, Recruitment, serious case review, training, workforce

Don't rush personalisation

By Bronagh Miskelly For one person it can mean getting out for more fresh air, for another a choice over when to eat their evening meal - personalisation is different for each service user. The government has already made clear that the move to more personalised...

Published 22 Oct 2008 11:22 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, personalisation

Safeguard children from flip-flopping politicians

by Bronagh Miskelly Young people in the UK have, admittedly unknowingly, been subject to a tidal wave of children's policy over their lifetimes. The funding and initiatives intended to help them grow up are barely established before they are reversed...

Published 18 Sep 2008 1:01 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Action for Children, Bronagh Miskelly, charities, charity, child protection, children, children and young people, children in care, legislation, NCH, policy, Politics

A new Children's Crusade against anti-social behaviour

By Bronagh Miskelly Beware that child skulking behind the bins with his mobile or digital camera - he may look like he's playing at James Bond but in fact he is out to catch you in the act of dropping litter or some other antisocial or 'environmental...

Published 9 Sep 2008 6:08 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: antisocial behaiour, Bronagh Miskelly, children, children and young people, crime, graffiti, local authorities, vandalism

Social work conduct system needs rehabilitation option

by Bronagh Miskelly A conduct and regulation system for the social work profession must of course ensure good practice and the safety of service users. But how this is achieved is not a matter of black and white, bad social worker, good social worker...

Published 3 Sep 2008 8:00 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, conduct, gscc, social work, social workers

Behold the conquering social reformer

By Bronagh Miskelly David Cameron has plans to change your jobs and your lives. In the publicity for a new biography of Conservative party leader we learn that he plans to be "as radical a social reformer as Mrs Thatcher was an economic reformer"...

Published 18 Aug 2008 6:14 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, Conservative Pary, David Cameron, Politics, social reform, social workers

All political fun and games for children's services

by Bronagh Miskelly The collaboration between the Department of Health and the Department of Children, Schools and Families to improve children's services has given rise to a new great double act in the traditions of British comedy it seems. Read...

Published 17 Jul 2008 12:11 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, children, children and young people, education, funding, health, Politics

Woolly thinking leaves council services at mercy of vocal minority

by Bronagh Miskelly It was with a muted fanfare that communities secretary Hazel Blears launched the white paper on community empowerment - Communities in control: Real people, real power . But then petitions and housing associations probably aren't...

Published 10 Jul 2008 12:31 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: accountability, Bronagh Miskelly, children and young people, children in care, children's services, communities, local authorities, local politics, Politics, service planning

An introduction to the cushions and comedy of social care

by Bronagh Miskelly As the new editor of Community Care I have a steep learning curve ahead of me - especially when it comes to the veritable dictionary of acronyms in social care. Read More...

Published 3 Jul 2008 1:16 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: acronyms, Bronagh Miskelly, dcsf, DH, Politics, social care

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