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  • 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
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2008

  • Gordon, please don't sack Ivan Lewis!

    by Mithran Samuel The papers today are awash with stories that care services minister Ivan Lewis could be sacked in the forthcoming reshuffle.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • Re: Does personalisation mean fewer social workers?

    I think the topic of workforce changes and personalisation will run and run in the next few months as more councils decide on their approach to tackling the agenda. For this reason at Community Care we want to hear your views on how you expect personalisation to affect your working life. So we have created...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Bronaghm on 08-14-2008

  • The Way of Wirral

    Wirral Council are planning to replace qualified social workers with unqualified equivalents. This is apparently in the face of the new ‘personalisation’ agenda where there will be a stronger focus on self-assessment and providing guidance and support through the new systems - none of which...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-13-2008

  • Ivan Lewis interviewed

    Listen to care services minister Ivan Lewis interviewed by Mithran Samuel in the latest Ivory Tower podcast .
    Posted to simeon2 (Gallery) by simeon2 on 08-07-2008

  • Ivan Lewis and a tale of two interviews

    Ivan Lewis has caused a stir among the political commentariat today with an interview in The Independent dubbed the first direct attack on Gordon Brown by a minister since the Glasgow East by-election disaster. Lewis urged Brown to recover his political courage to give Labour a fighting chance of winning...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008

  • What is adult social care actually for?

    by Simon Heng In the old days, adult social care was easy. People with a disability, or mental illness, or anyone over 65 who looked as if they weren't coping on their own, were rounded up into institutions where their physical needs could be met as humanely and cheaply as possible. Anyone who might...
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008

  • Re: Future funding of adult care

    I was at one of the regional meetings the government is holding on the future funding of care today - attended by London social care managers and frontline staff from across all sectors, users and carers. It was a really interesting day with lots of good discussion about how the care and support needs...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 07-24-2008

  • Re: Personalised budgets!!!!!

    I think that it's interesting that half the people I hear think that personalised budgets, direct payments, or equivalent, are about a drive to save money - and half the people I hear of think that it will cost too much... That suggests to me that the money thing is a distraction - an indication...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by RobertW on 06-20-2008

  • ECCA: More councils fail to ensure fee rises cover inflation

    The English Community Care Association has published a report saying more and more councils are either freezing fees for care home providers or failing to keep up with inflation at a time of increased costs from rises in the minimum wage and staff holiday entitlements. It's an age-old (well post...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 06-03-2008
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