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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, mental health, discrimination, local authority, old age, elderly, health, carer, direct payments, local government, Disability, Mental Health Foundation, personal, personal budget, resource allocation system, ras, burstow, the small places
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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on 30 Aug 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, local authority, old age, carer, direct payments, Disability, personal, election, Twitter, british social work, personal budget, Social media, social work and technology, social media and social work, IPad, technology and social work, using technology with service users, 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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on 24 Aug 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, socialcare, local authority, politics, personal, Christopher Booker, daily telegraph, Family court, Injunction, Elizabeth Watson, High Court, john hemming, john tune, Nicholas Wall (judge), sunday telegraph, superinjunction, vicky haigh, 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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on 12 Aug 2011
Filed under: social care, social issues, work, local authority, london, television, England, poverty, personal, london riots, Clapham, Croydon, Ealing, Riot