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  • Alton Centre, Active Care and Southern Cross - an update

    A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Alton Centre, a home in Northamptonshire run by Active Care - a subsidiary of Southern Cross Healthcare who were reported to be suffering from financial difficulties earlier in the year. Today the appeal against the loss of the registration is being appealed and Community...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-05-2008

  • Social Work - a Daily Mail interpretation

    I know I shouldn’t do it. I know it will just make me unnecessarily angry and raise my blood pressure. I know exactly what I’ll find but sometimes, just occasionally, my curiosity gets the better of me and I dip into the Daily Mail’s website. And to those lucky enough not to have come...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • Guardianship - What hope for the Mental Capacity Act?

    So yesterday, I had found some of the reasons that the Mental Health Act could be used to apply for Guardianship in considering A. The Mental Capacity Act (2005) is fairly new ground - well, over a year now(don’t be fooled by that 2005 thing!) but sometimes as we get older our minds move more slowly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-02-2008

  • Caseloads

    Supervision for me is generally a fairly relaxed affair. I use the time to run through my current caseload - partly just to re-evaluate where I am and where I’m going and partly just to make sure my manager actually knows what I’m doing. We don’t just discuss caseloads of course, but...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2008

  • How to Complain About Me (or to the Local Authority generally)

    A brief guide to how to complain from someone who has been on the other side of complaints. Not many times, I hasten to add, and none that have actually gone very far -  but I know what ticks the boxes as far as official complaints procedures are concerned. Firstly, local authorities actually quite like...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008

  • The leaving (and rejoining of) Unison

    Unison is one of the largest trade unions in the UK. I generally feel that being a member of a trade union is important and seeing as most of the social workers in my local authority are in Unison, it seemed like an obvious choice. I’m a bit of an on-off Unison member (currently on) [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008

  • Care Management for Pets

    There is much research about the positive impact that domestic animals can have to general mental health and well-being. Something about the non-judgemental nature of interactions, I presume - although I’m sure that more extensive scientifc research can be located if necessary. Often working with...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-20-2008

  • Picking up the pieces

    As I hope is evident, my work is very varied - and that’s one of the main reasons I enjoy it. But I was reminded by an article in The Guardian about what I, personally, find to be one of the saddest tasks that I undertake. And that is when I pack up someone’s belongings [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-19-2008

  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Where the pin drops..

    I wrote a couple of months back about an ongoing reconfiguration of services in the area in which I’m working that basically involves turning four separate teams based on geography into two based in much larger ‘patches’. I have some learned cynicism about service re-configuring and...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008
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