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  • Dementia strategy means business

    It's pretty rare for us Community Care journos to praise rather than bury the government in our blogs, but I'm willing to break a habit in the case of the draft dementia strategy published last week . It seemed to exemplify what policymaking should be about: Take a problem (and in this case it's...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • 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 the four heads of social services for a feature...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-29-2008

  • Smoke free mental health units by 1 July

    The Department of Health has written to all mental health trusts and other providers to remind them that they must be smoke free by 1 July under the smoking ban legislation. Do people think this is realistic?
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 05-29-2008

  • Splitting up is easy to do

    Alongside appointing Parky as its new dignity ambassador the Department of Health yesterday promised to talk to councils about the issue of older couples being split up as a result of care placements. There has been quite a lot in the news on this recently - including the tragic case of Tom and Nancie...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 05-21-2008

  • Devon promises holy grail of efficiency and personalisation

    by Mithran Samuel Devon Council is currently shaking up its care management function in a reform which promises to both lower the costs of adult social care services and make them more personalised around the user - what the jargon lovers among us may describe as a "win-win". We have been here...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-17-2008

  • Re: Are unqualified staff dangerous?

    No they are not, what is dangerous is an individual persons unwillingness to learn and move on, we are all unqualified to start with and we are taught by the people who know best the service user and their informal support. By listening and hearing what a person wants we can learn alot. The only reason...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by sonyaw331 on 04-04-2008

  • Government workforce split between adults and children's services

    You may have missed it but the Department for Children, Schools and Families put out a children's workforce plan yesterday. Much of the stuff on social work had already been announced - piloting independent practices to provide field social work services for looked-after children, piloting arrangements...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 04-04-2008

  • Human Rights Act loophole to close - finally

    The Department of Health will announce today that it will legislate to close the loophole that has placed independent care homes - where most residents are, of course - outside the jurisdiction of the Human Rights Act 1998. This seems pretty great news, as older people's and human rights groups have...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 03-27-2008

  • Green Paper: Don't forget disabled people

    by Mithran Samuel Adult social care has re-emerged in recent years as a political issue of some salience. The story count on the sector in the national press has picked up notably (with indignity in care and the prospect that care fees will drain people of their savings and rob them of their homes being...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-17-2008

  • Re: Commissioning in Supporting People - The ignorant in search of the impossible

    Theoretically, Supporting People is part of the government's wider vision for personalised care and support - indeed it should eventually become part of individual budgets (as with the current pilots). This looks like another case where the financial imperatives and the pressures to make efficiencies...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 03-04-2008
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