In the bold move towards a transformation in adult social care, it feels from where I sit, that control has completely overtaken any pretence of ‘choice’ in the so-called move towards more idealised ‘person-centred’ care and support planning. I hope I Read More...
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on 12 Sep 2011
Filed under: burstow, carer, carers, dementia, direct payments, Disability, discrimination, elderly, health, local authority, local government, mental health, Mental Health Foundation, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, ras, resource allocation system, social care, social issues, social work, socialcare, the small places, work
I have some across lots of discussions and debates about ways of using social media and new technologies and interactions to ‘help’ social services become more effective. Most of it seems to revolve around building online directories and databases of Read More...
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Fighting Monsters
on 30 Aug 2011
Filed under: british social work, carer, carers, dementia, direct payments, Disability, election, IPad, local authority, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, social care, Social media, social media and social work, social work, social work and technology, socialcare, technology and social work, Twitter, using technology with service users, work, YouTube
A curious news story broke on Monday. Curious because it is rare that the Family Court make public judgements. As the Yorkshire Post reports Victoria Haigh “caused” the girl, now aged seven, to repeat the untrue child sex abuse claims she had “manufactured Read More...
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Fighting Monsters
on 24 Aug 2011
Filed under: Christopher Booker, daily telegraph, Elizabeth Watson, Family court, High Court, Injunction, john hemming, john tune, local authority, Nicholas Wall (judge), personal, politics, social care, social issues, social work, socialcare, sunday telegraph, superinjunction, vicky haigh, work, Yorkshire Post
I apologise for keeping on one track in my posts this week but I am preoccupied by events of the last week. I’m not the same person I was a week ago. Some of the pillars that I held on both tangible and intangible have gone now, never to be replaced. Read More...
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Fighting Monsters
on 12 Aug 2011
Filed under: Clapham, Croydon, Ealing, England, local authority, london, london riots, personal, poverty, Riot, social care, social issues, television, work