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  • Inflation: does it depend on your class?

    By Keith Sellick Yesterday the Daily Telegraph led with "Double blow for middle class families" pointing to rising household bills and the Chancellor's call for pay restraint. It said that inflation for the middle classes was running at 6.7%. The Daily Mirror ran on its front page with...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-24-2008

  • Teachers' strike - are they really hard done by?

    On Newsnight last night Gavin Esler stated that in the last 10 years teachers' pay has risen 19% in real terms. This sounds fairly generous doesn't it? Wouldn't it be a shame if a spate of pay disputes brought in a far meaner Tory government. Or is the real issue class sizes; to me, the central...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by lionel on 04-25-2008

  • Time to act over pay

    I'm really shocked by the findings of Community Care's survey into the finances of social workers. We all know that it's an undervalued profession, but I never knew so many people were struggling just to make ends. Figures that jumped out at me include: - 38% of the 1,500 social workers who...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Mikebwb on 02-28-2008

  • Re: Bullying in the Workplace

    Hi Shellie, Ironic isn't it that the caring professions are seemingly the most beset by bullying? It seems social work, like other public service professions, exists in an environment where caring for employees (see our poll on long hours ) is a particularly low priority, compared to (rightly) serving...
    Posted to General chat (Forum) by Mithran on 02-26-2008
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