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  • Revisiting

    I have been in my current team for a couple of years. I worked in the same local authority before that though for about three years. The geographical boundaries of the areas that I work in don’t strictly overlap so I haven’t had it happen very often that I see people that I used to [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-08-2008

  • Placements and Practice

    Last week, Community Care reported that a social worker, Ruth Hughes, was struck off the GSCC register after being found guilty of misconduct. There were a couple of details about the situation as reported that struck me. Firstly, in the hearing, one of the criticisms made of her her then manager Amanda...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008

  • Links, links, links

      Another quick round up through some of the places that my feed reader have taken me over the last couple of weeks. It’s a bit more haphazard this week so apologies but check some of the links out. There are some gems there! A  random collection but that’s sometimes just the way...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-20-2008

  • The Horse Man

    It used to be quite straightforward. I was in an assessment team so someone would make a referral to our services - usually the person themselves, or a family member or a GP or district nurse - someone who had reason to understand that care was needed for some reason. Sometimes the referrals came from...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-16-2008

  • Reasons to the Cheerful - Part One

    I had, for one reason or another, a particularly difficult week last week. Partly due to work-related matters and issues - trying to cram in a five day workload into three days with a couple of days out training - partly just stuff happening at home that I wasn’t expecting - nothing particularly...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008

  • On the ward

    Image via Wikipedia I knew it wasn’t going to be a quiet day when I found a pink paper with a written recommendation for a Section 3 from one of our doctors sitting on my desk next to the ASW Duty Book - a book in which we note any Mental Health Act Assessments that [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-12-2008

  • Looking ahead

      Yesterday I visited Mrs B and her husband. He has Alzheimer’s Disease and it is at a fairly advanced stage. She has been caring for her husband for many years watching  his deterioration staying constantly at his side. I have been involved for only a few months but over that time, have...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-09-2008

  • Some links for the weekend (pt 2)

    It’s about time for another round-up post. I’m working on a fortnightly schedule now - far more manageable. In no particular order a delve inside what has emerged to greet me from Google Reader. Amy, at Amy’s Life in Brief, explains who her hospital social work team relocates to a Portacabin...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-06-2008

  • Social Work And Social Care: Time to learn something from the Olympic spirit?

    by Peter Beresford I never expected to hear myself say it, but the Beijing Olympics have given me a whole new sense of proportion. Suddenly I feel I have a proper perspective on issues of social care and human needs.
    Posted to The Social Care Experts Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Delayed Discharges

    Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the word) awakening. The Community Care (Delayed Discharge...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
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