I think I’m fairly good at griping and raising ‘problems’. For the next week, I want to try and take a positive approach and look at solutions as well as problems. - A few conversations I’ve had over the past week have focused on what is wrong with adult Read More...
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Fighting Monsters
on 11 Jul 2011
Filed under: advocacy, British Association of Social Workers, british social work, Disability, discrimination, health, Home Care, individual budgets, Internet forum, local authority, mental health, old age, personal, personal budgets, personalisation, politics, social care, Social Sciences, social work, social work in the uk, Unison, work
I read on the BBC website among others that there is a report suggesting that care provided in the home by local authorities to older adults may be overlooking human rights issues. Daniel2005@flickr An inquiry into this was initiated by the Equality and Read More...
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on 20 Jun 2011
Filed under: carer, carers, dementia, direct payments, Disability, discrimination, ehrc, elderly, elderly home care, equality and human rights commission, government, health, Home Care, home care and human rights, Human Right, Human Rights and Liberties, human rights of older adults, individual budgets, local authority, local government, mental health, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, personal budgets, personalisation, report into home care, social care, social work, work
Yesterday, Community Care published the result of a survey they had undertaken about ‘personalisation’ among social care professionals. The headline figures while wholly unsurprising, make for interesting reading where only 41% of respondents felt Read More...
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on 26 May 2011
Filed under: budget, burstow, care in the community, carer, direct payments, discrimination, elderly, implementation of personalisation, individual budgets, local authority, local government, old age, older people, paul burstow, personal, personal budget, personal budgets, personalisation, personalisation agenda, Personalization, social care, social work, uk, work
Personalisation is a very broad brush term to describe the so-called ‘transformation’ agenda in adult social care. In very general terms it refers to the process of moving from resource-led to needs-led systems of service provision (just as the NHS … Read More...
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on 4 Mar 2011
Filed under: adult social care, budget, care provision, dementia, direct payments, Disability, discrimination, elderly, health, ilf, individual budget, individual budgets, learning disability, local authority, mental health, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, personal budgets, personalisation, politics, putting people first, sds, self-directed support, social care, social issues, social work, Support group, work