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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on 11 Jul 2011
Filed under: social care, social work, work, mental health, discrimination, local authority, old age, politics, health, personalisation, advocacy, Home Care, Unison, Social Sciences, Disability, personal, British Association of Social Workers, social work in the uk, british social work, individual budgets, personal budgets, Internet forum
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
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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
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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
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