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  • 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

  • Caseloads

    Supervision for me is generally a fairly relaxed affair. I use the time to run through my current caseload - partly just to re-evaluate where I am and where I’m going and partly just to make sure my manager actually knows what I’m doing. We don’t just discuss caseloads of course, but...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-30-2008

  • The Way of Wirral

    Wirral Council are planning to replace qualified social workers with unqualified equivalents. This is apparently in the face of the new ‘personalisation’ agenda where there will be a stronger focus on self-assessment and providing guidance and support through the new systems - none of which...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-13-2008

  • Where the pin drops..

    I wrote a couple of months back about an ongoing reconfiguration of services in the area in which I’m working that basically involves turning four separate teams based on geography into two based in much larger ‘patches’. I have some learned cynicism about service re-configuring and...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-06-2008

  • Appraisal

    I had my annual appraisal last week. I wavered about whether to write about it or not. Not for any reasons of confidentiality - because honestly, I would happily have had anyone who stumbles across this site sit in with me and they wouldn’t have gained much in the way of private information (!...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-02-2008

  • Striking Decisions

    UNISON have called a strike of local government employees for the 16th and 17th July. I’m a member of UNISON. So I strike. It should all be so simple. In reality I am in two minds and I haven’t decided - or rather, our team haven’t made a united decision yet. In the whole team, there...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008

  • Data Entry

    All the work I do is recorded on databases. Every visit, form completed, review, assessment - even some telephone conversations (if they are over 10 minutes and can be deemed to have some kind of ‘therapeutic value’ - so not the ‘Can I arrange a time to visit?’ telephone calls...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008

  • 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
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