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  • Choice, Control and Obfuscation – How the Personalisation Dream is Dying

    In the bold move towards a transformation in adult social care, it feels from where I sit, that control has completely overtaken any pretence of ‘choice’ in the so-called move towards more idealised ‘person-centred’ care and support planning. I hope I Read More...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters on 12 Sep 2011
    Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, mental health, discrimination, local authority, old age, elderly, health, carer, direct payments, local government, Disability, Mental Health Foundation, personal, personal budget, resource allocation system, ras, burstow, the small places
  • Interviews and Ideas

    Please forgive the blatant self-promotion in this post but it’s Friday and I’m feeling a like I have a bit of a cold coming so I’m less ‘perky’ than usual. Dorlee from Social Work Career Development has published an interview which she did with me and Read More...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters on 9 Sep 2011
    Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, health, Education, personal, Social media, social work and technology, psw, shirley ayres, social work career development blog, sw4sw
  • Docking Benefits and Blaming the Poor

    I know I covered this more generally on Monday in my rant about ‘benefits’ but it’s worth coming back to with the proposals explained in the Guardian Magistrates and crown court judges could be asked to dock benefits from convicted criminals under preliminary Read More...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters on 8 Sep 2011
    Filed under: social work, social issues, work, benefits, politics, london, social justice, Department for Work and Pensions, personal, david cameron, iain duncan-smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, evil tories, Crime, Riot, blame the poor, Kenneth Clarke
  • Hemming and Haigh – The Journey of an Injunction

    A curious news story broke on Monday. Curious because it is rare that the Family Court make public judgements. As the Yorkshire Post reports Victoria Haigh “caused” the girl, now aged seven, to repeat the untrue child sex abuse claims she had “manufactured Read More...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters on 24 Aug 2011
    Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, work, socialcare, local authority, politics, personal, Christopher Booker, daily telegraph, Family court, Injunction, Elizabeth Watson, High Court, john hemming, john tune, Nicholas Wall (judge), sunday telegraph, superinjunction, vicky haigh, Yorkshire Post
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