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  • A Career in Care

    Earlier in the week,  as a result of the Care Ambassador scheme that I am a party to,  I  had a meeting with a someone from  Skills for Care who is involved in setting up some of the meetings and training sessions with schools. The Care Ambassador scheme is something I had been involved...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-04-2008

  • Direct Payments - Chapter Two

    So, a week from the start of my journey into a Direct Payments referral and I have sent the appropriate forms, documents and paperwork to the appropriate people.  The figures are being checked and the amount that has been requested matched up against  the Fair Access to Care criteria along...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008

  • Trouble at Southern Cross

    Both The Times and The Guardian reported that Southern Cross Healthcare Group have been launched into some kind of financial crisis following the failure to repay a loan of some £46 million. Times are getting harder and a lot of firms are failing - but Southern Cross are the largest provider and operator...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008

  • Assumptions

    I work in the inner city and have since I did my first practice placement in the first year of my social work course almost 10 years ago now.  For as long as I have been working as a social worker , I have only ever worked in the inner city - different parts of [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-01-2008

  • Multi-disciplinary working.. or not.

    I read in on the Times website that a letter has been written to the British Journal of Psychiatry,  in which 36 signatories complain that ‘patients with serious problems are often referred to psychologists and social workers rather than clinicians and do not receive the medical therapies...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2008

  • Direct Payments - Chapter One

    Direct Payments is the system of, basically, rather than giving a direct service, providing money to the user of the service to ‘buy’ the care that they need directly. ‘Direct Payments were introduced in the UK - for adults with a disability in 1997 - for older people in 2000 - for...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-26-2008

  • On Assessments

    This week I completed two Mental Health Act Assessments (not on my own, of course, I’m still not warranted!). So I probably don’t need to elaborate on the fact that it’s been quite busy. Just a few aspects as I saw them. I spoke to one patient’s mother before first assessment...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-19-2008

  • Not managing stress at work

    I wasn’t intending to follow up the post I wrote on Saturday but then, yesterday, I read that Social Workers are buckling under the stress burden according to The Guardian, and the coincidence seemed to be too ripe to pass up. Anushka Astana writes ‘Research carried out by the Conservative...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-15-2008

  • Is Care Management Social Work?

    How much of social work exists in the Care Management model? It’s a question I’ve been toying with for a fair amount of time - especially as most of my work, post-qualification anyway, has been situated very much within the care management model. Although now, I have a slightly different...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-08-2008

  • Of cars and kittens

    I don’t drive. Not only do I not drive, I don’t actually have a driving license. My last driving lesson (14 years ago) ended in my driving instructor actually telling me she did not want to teach me anymore (2nd crash - in my defence it wasn’t serious - I only drove into the back [...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-05-2008
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