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  • Personal view of Personalisation

    I have to admit, before I start, that I have a somewhat brief view of personalisation which the Department of Health explains:- This means that every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008

  • Modern to Postmodern Social Work

    There doesn’t seem to be much getting away from the fact that social work is a vaguely paternalistic profession. I touched on this previously and  its something that I’ve been dwelling on for a while. Even if the systems and functions have changed today, its roots were in any case. Charity...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008

  • Stigma in Parliament

    More than a quarter of parliamentary staff surveyed, including MPs, Lords and support staff, suffer from mental illness brought about by stress according to an article published in The Independent today. A MIND press release further breaks down the figures revealing that An anonymous questionnaire completed...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • Caring for Carers

    This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy published - as far as I could tell from the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008
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