by Mithran Samuel and Simeon Brody Good year Kaliya Franklin Franklin has emerged as one of the foremost service user bloggers and campaigners against cuts to disability benefits and care. Blogging at Benefit Scrounging Scum and The Broken of Britain Read More...
Posted to
Mad World
on 22 Dec 2011
Filed under: adults, children, Politics, social care, social work, workforce
David Cameron is to announce plans for a network of "troubleshooters" to give more focused support to troubled families. It all sounds very good but leaves me with a few thoughts. What will these "troubleshooters" do that social workers Read More...
Posted to
Mad World
on 15 Dec 2011
Filed under: children, david cameron, familes, Politics, social work
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The last three months of walk-outs by bin men, social
workers and social care staff over pay cuts of up to 5% have yet to result in a deal which will keep both
staff and council Read More...
The following is a guest post by Michael Richmond, who has just published his first novel, Sisyphusa , an allegory of the mental health system. If there's one conclusion I've come to after five years of suffering from it, it is that mental illness Read More...
Posted to
Mad World
on 29 Sep 2011
Filed under: adults, arts, fiction, Mental Health, Politics