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  • Men Needed

    Perhaps it is unsurprising to learn that the majority of people who work in ’social care’ are women. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report last week explaining why it was necessary for the sector to reach out and attract more men to the workforce. Stepheye at Flickr Some of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008

  • A duty to die

    Sarah Wootton wrote a piece in the Guardian, a few days ago, considering Baroness Warnock’s comments in the Church of Scotland’s magazine, Life and Work, in which she stated that dementia suffers may have ‘a duty to die’. Uproar followed as it is a headline which is easy to write...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-01-2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Good work, Evelyn

    After some of the knocking of social workers that I mentioned over the last few days, how about a positive spin? The Daily Record published a story about a 15 year old girl who suffers from leukaemia who has nominated her social worker for the Scottish Health Award prize run by the newspaper. The teenager...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008

  • Social Work - a Daily Mail interpretation

    I know I shouldn’t do it. I know it will just make me unnecessarily angry and raise my blood pressure. I know exactly what I’ll find but sometimes, just occasionally, my curiosity gets the better of me and I dip into the Daily Mail’s website. And to those lucky enough not to have come...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-04-2008

  • 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

  • Some things for the (long) weekend..

    By the time this is published, I’ll be sitting on a train on my way to beautiful Northumbria - ready to sun myself over the weekend - ok, maybe ’sunning myself’ is a bit hopeful…. I had a positive response to my last round-up post - well , three people said they liked it and no...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-22-2008

  • Active Care? Another tale of Southern Cross

    I write a few months ago about the difficulties faced by Southern Cross Healthcare but a quick recap a) They are the largest private operator of residential and nursing care in the UK b) Big financial problems c) Some disparate concerns about quality of care and treatment of staff in homes that they...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-16-2008

  • Do Something Different

    Today the A level results are published in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. I remember vividly when I found about my A level results. ccarlstead at flickr I was working in a summer camp with a friend of mine. It was a day camp and the kids were from about five upwards. I was helping with [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
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