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  • A decent place to live

    I seem to have had something of a ‘home’ themed week in one way or the other, so thought I’d round it off with a few thoughts about more general housing. In one of the previous teams I worked in, we had a basic line that a lot of the situations and difficulties that were challenging...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-17-2008

  • Living in DoLs houses

    Just when I thought I was pretty hot on all the acronyms that are flung around the workplace, I have been hit with a few more. It came as a result of a conversation with one of the managers (there are whole swathes of different levels of managers in the local authority that become very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008

  • Afterthought

    I just read this story on the Times website about an elderly couple that were found dead following a visit from social services as they feared that they would be separated due to differing care needs. There isn’t really much that can be said, apart from feeling a genuine sadness that this has happened...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008

  • Creating home at home

    Yesterday, one of the plenary sessions I attended at Community Care Live was a discussion of an initiative by Help the Aged called My Home Life. As it says on the site, it is ‘a new initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008

  • Live and Life

    Community Care Live starts today. I expect attend a few of the workshops and plenaries that will be taking place. I wonder what a collective noun for social workers would be. I can’t think of many things that would be printable (so to speak!) but whatever it is (a gaggle, a gossip, a [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-14-2008

  • The Right to (Free) State Care

    Brown announced that he was starting a six month consultation to make decisions about reforms to the ’social care’ system and in particular, its funding. The Wanless Social Care Review was produced back in 2006 and it examined ways of paying for long term care in the face of an aging population...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-13-2008

  • The Cost of Caring

    The Guardian published an article this week about the germination of a New Deal for Carers and the results of the consultations that they ran over a period of a couple of months. I hadn’t known this had been going on so thought I’d look at some of the interim findings. Poor Information. There...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-10-2008

  • Community Care Live

    CC Live - the most important event in the social care calendar takes place on 14 + 15 May in London. It's totally free - just register here. The CareSpace team will also have a stall at the event - so please come and say hello!
    Posted to simeon2 (Gallery) by simeon2 on 05-06-2008

  • Whither Social Work?

    Working in a multi-disciplinary team presents different challenges for social workers and social work in general. We have monthly ‘professional’ meetings where I work which, I think, is to ensure some kind of group supervision (as my line manager is a CPN). These meetings had tended to be...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-06-2008

  • Using IMCAs

    I was surprised when I spoke with colleagues who were working in a local CMHT, that few of them were aware of the IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocate) service and none had used them. I have used IMCAs a few times over the last 8 months or so and generally found the process to be very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-03-2008
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