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  • 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

  • No evidence migrants are jumping housing queue

    Interim research out today from the Local Government Association and the Equality and Human Rights Commission finds there is no evidence of bias against UK-born people in the allocation of social housing. Key findings include that new migrants to the UK over the past five years make up 3% of the population...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-09-2008

  • Cannabis: Expert advice versus politics

    Press reports today suggest that the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs will recommend to ministers that cannabis should remain a Class C drug . Ironically this comes just two days after Gordon Brown strongly indicated in his monthly press conference that he backed reclassifying it into the more...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-03-2008

  • Social mobility and free schools: Right goal, wrong means

    by Mithran Samuel The link between social background and educational performance is part of the DNA of the UK's education system, and England's in particular. Recent data on social mobility suggests this problem is getting worse. So it's refreshing that all three mainstream political parties...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-26-2008

  • 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

  • Media coverage of social work

    Hi, we are going to start a monthly column in Community Care on Backchat about the media coverage of social work. First up is the Daily Mail's coverage of the Justice Munby's ruling in the Nottingham baby case, which is linked in the Community Care story here http://www.communitycare.co.uk/munby...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Keefer on 03-06-2008

  • Re: Bullying in the Workplace

    Hi Shellie, Ironic isn't it that the caring professions are seemingly the most beset by bullying? It seems social work, like other public service professions, exists in an environment where caring for employees (see our poll on long hours ) is a particularly low priority, compared to (rightly) serving...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Mithran on 02-26-2008

  • CWDC remodelling social work pilots

    The Children's Workforce Development Council has just launched a number of pilots designed to reshape the roles of children's social workers to give them more contact time, take away bureaucracy and promote early intervention to stop children going into care. The idea behind the Remodelling Social...
    Posted to Practice (Forum) by Mithran on 02-25-2008

  • Re: PRTL

    It looks like BASW is after wholesale reform of PRTL on the basis of its submission to the GSCC's current policy review , which says PRTL fails to "address competence explicitly", meaning it lacks credibility. It also wants all social workers to be completing a specialist PQ award within...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Mithran on 02-25-2008

  • Sexual boundaries

    Yet another social worker has been reprimanded for sexual misconduct with a service user , an issue which accounts for a third of conduct cases heard by the General Social Care Council. As a result, it is calling for a code of practice for social workers on sexual boundaries . I am just wondering how...
    Posted to Practice (Forum) by Mithran on 02-25-2008
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