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  • Ageism and Justice

    Community Care reports on a proposal by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to recommend more severe sentences to those who commit crimes against older people The policy is the last to be published on six “equality strands” and brings victimisation due to ageism in line with crimes driven by racism,...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-19-2008

  • Bringing work home

    Earlier this week, during one of our monthly meetings that include all the teams that work in our office (there are four sub-teams that cover the borough), we discussed Lone Working Policies. Nothing particularly exciting - they are formulating some new policies around staff safety. Just as I was dozing...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-12-2008

  • Happy Birthday, NHS

    Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. There has been a lot of coverage over the last week in every kind of media source to commemorate this. From finding people born on the same day to relive their lives through access to the health system to much polemic and debate...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Help to care

    I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need, deserve and are entitled to a lot more support...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-04-2008

  • Get out of Jail Free

    I haven’t had much experience of working within the criminal law system but I noticed an article via Mental Patient about Town from the Independent which was depressingly unsurprising when it states that there are a growing number of people who are mentally ill within the prison system. I suppose...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008

  • Ageism - the ‘acceptable’ face of prejudice

    Social workers are supposed to be a liberal group. We are trained extensively in anti-discriminatory practice. I can’t imagine there are any social work courses in the country that don’t, at least explore, the implications of discrimination, power and oppression even at the interview level...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-26-2008

  • Prevention before cure

    It is all very well for the government to call for better preventative care for older people. It is a noble aim - and a cost effective policy too. But I can’t help but be a little bit cynical. As long as the Fair Access to Care bands exist and restrict care provision to Critical [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
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