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  • Is Caring a Skill?

    The immigration rules are changing here. Generally I have a liberal view towards immigration - and one that probably wouldn’t win me any friends at dinner parties, if I ever went to any that is! I am aware though, that my view is sometimes prejudiced by the knowledge that my own great-grandparents...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-11-2008

  • 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

  • Personal view of Personalisation

    I have to admit, before I start, that I have a somewhat brief view of personalisation which the Department of Health explains:- This means that every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008

  • Caring for Carers

    This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy published - as far as I could tell from the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-11-2008

  • 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
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