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  • The Death of the Giro

    Image via Wikipedia I was minding my own business, listening to Moneybox on the Radio at the weekend - when I heard that Benefits Cheques are to be phased out. The Giro is on its last legs. I don’t want to be pessimistic at all, in the face of the minister responsible James Plaskitt, being so assured...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • Fuelling the child poverty debate

    Whether it is tanker drivers going on a national strike, motorcyclists holding a mass rally on the M6 or lorry drivers blocking the roads of central London, those who rely on petrol for their livelihoods certainly know how to get the message across that the price of fuel is hurting.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

  • Caring for Carers

    This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy published - as far as I could tell from the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

  • Is Care Management Social Work?

    How much of social work exists in the Care Management model? It’s a question I’ve been toying with for a fair amount of time - especially as most of my work, post-qualification anyway, has been situated very much within the care management model. Although now, I have a slightly different...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008

  • Spend, spend, regret?

    The Independent writes about the link between bipolar disorder and overspending. It doesn’t really come as any surprise and seems logical that a link would be made. I remember a conversation I had with a patient who spoke in terms of genuine regret that her care coordinator at the time had completely...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008

  • The Cost of Caring

    The Guardian published an article this week about the germination of a New Deal for Carers and the results of the consultations that they ran over a period of a couple of months. I hadn’t known this had been going on so thought I’d look at some of the interim findings. Poor Information. There...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-10-2008

  • Carers benefits

    Hi everyone, I'm doing some research into carers benefits and whether they are sufficient to meet their living needs. I'd be interested in getting the thoughts of professionals working with carers of both children and adults - and any carers themselves - to find out how far state help goes in...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Dez on 05-02-2008

  • Independent Asylum Commission criticises UK asylum system

    by Simeon Brody The report by the Independent Asylum Commission has received lots of coverage in today's papers.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-27-2008

  • Who's running the country, Brown or Cameron?

    by Mike McNabb If there was a sense of the familiar about chancellor Alistair Darling's Budget plan to extend an eligibility test to all incapacity benefit claimants you would have been right.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-14-2008
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