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  • Council bans words

    by Anabel Unity Sale Councils always get a bad rap in the papers. If it's not one thing it's another. This time Tunbridge Wells Council is in the frame for attempting to make sure it uses inclusive language by banning the word 'brainstorming' and replacing it with 'thought showers'...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-23-2008

  • Unfair repercussions of legal aid changes

    From October 1st last year no legal aid funding has been available for placements in family assessment centres - used when care proceedings have begun to assess parents' parenting ability. This means that such placements now have to be soley funded by councils. The repercussions of this are now starting...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-09-2008

  • Re: Social worker shortage?

    Obviously, there are lies, damn lies and statistics but, in councils at least, vacancy and turnover rates are actually coming down, the most recent figures show . Council field social workers had a vacancy rate of 9.4% in 2006 and a turnover rate of 7.8% (down from 10.4% and 10% respectively in 2004...
    Posted to Careers (Forum) by Mithran on 03-14-2008

  • Re: Continuing Care

    Hopefully the new guidance has made things better but continuing care is one area where the division of responsibilities between health and social care makes no sense whatsoever. The NHS will always have an incentive to find assess borderline cases as ineligible and councils will not have any directive...
    Posted to Adults' services (Forum) by Mithran on 03-04-2008
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