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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

  • 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

  • Leo Abse

    We all have views that jump to mind when we speak of politicians - they are some of the least trusted of professions. It’s easy to be cynical when power is on the table, so to speak. So taking the lead from Aethelread’s touching tribute, I think it is only right to remember Leo Abse, a [...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-21-2008

  • Oxford, Education and Inclusion

    Oxford University and social inclusion aren’t necessarily two phrases that would naturally find themselves in the same sentence - but as was reported in The Guardian at the weekend, Oxford is going to take into account factors such as the applicants postcode, the schools’ general performance...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-18-2008

  • Modern to Postmodern Social Work

    There doesn’t seem to be much getting away from the fact that social work is a vaguely paternalistic profession. I touched on this previously and  its something that I’ve been dwelling on for a while. Even if the systems and functions have changed today, its roots were in any case. Charity...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-31-2008

  • Defending Political Correctness

    There seems many an implied or direct criticism of being ‘overly political correct’ - people find some random and strange judgement and laughingly refer to ‘political correctness gone mad’ amid the sniggers a - many of them facts being wholly absent. The Daily Mail (there’s...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-21-2008

  • Stigma in Parliament

    More than a quarter of parliamentary staff surveyed, including MPs, Lords and support staff, suffer from mental illness brought about by stress according to an article published in The Independent today. A MIND press release further breaks down the figures revealing that An anonymous questionnaire completed...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-16-2008

  • 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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