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Personalisation in Practice
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Final post
Well, thank you for making it this far with me. I have decided after a fair bit of thought to officially ‘retire’ this blog and I won’t be updating it anymore. I’ve moved on and am doing different...
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Empowerment
Since I started my social work training in 1998, I have spent a lot of time thinking about power and my relationship with it. When I was a student, I didn’t feel that I had ‘power’. It felt like it was...
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Awareness
. [insert condition of choice] awareness day/week/month. I’ve been pondering what we mean by ‘awareness’ and what these events achieve. I don’t want to be naturally cynical. They can be a good focus...
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Dementia, Social Work and Awareness
Dementia awareness week starts tomorrow on 19th May. When I think about ‘dementia’, I don’t think about government initiatives and new exciting ways to ‘raise awareness’. Raising awareness is good but...
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Think Ahead – Why the Fast Track Mental Health Social Work Scheme is confused...
Last week, I read an article about the proposed government attempts to bolt a ‘Frontline’ scheme on to Mental Health Social Work. I was angry and I raged. Thanks to a comment (and I genuinely mean...
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Fast tracking Mental Health Social Work
First they came for the children and families social workers.. Last year, the government announced the shiny ‘Frontline’ scheme which was designed to fast-track ‘elite’ graduates into child protection...
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Death and Bereavement
I’ve been thinking about death this week. There isn’t anything particular that’s triggered it. I think about death a lot actually. Does that make me a morbid person? I don’t think so. Death is, after...
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Care plans – Now and Future Me.
This morning I read a post by Mark Neary (whose blog I highly recommend) which highlights the hypocrisy and inaccessibility of the language of social care. I am used to jargon. I have been working in...
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Burnout and Avoiding it.
I attended an event recently for newly qualified and student social workers. There were a number of speakers of which I was privileged to be one. Although it wasn’t a part of my ‘talk’, some of those...
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Personalisation in Practice
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On Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty
Having been a Best Interests Assessor since the position came into being, I have a particular interest in how the deprivation of liberty safeguards (DoLS) work (or don’t) in practice. I am a fan of the...
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On Kindness and Compassion
This weekend, I’ve been reflecting a lot on kindness and the way it impacts on my job. On Friday, I had a conversation with someone I work with (in a different organisation) in which they demonstrated...
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Looking back and looking forward
I haven’t posted much here over the last year and most of my posts have been about looking back rather than looking forward. 2013 was an important year for me in a lot of ways. By moving out of a...
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What I’ve learnt about Social Work
A couple of ‘anniversaries’ have come up recently for me. It’s six years since I published my first post on this blog. It’s one year since I left my social work job. These milestones have caused me to...
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Bedlam – Do we need stories to understand?
I watched Bedlam, a documentary based on the work done in the South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust last week and this week. I was reassured by last weeks’ episode, titled “Anxiety”...
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On Leadership – from a Follower
I read a lot about ‘leadership’. Tips on being a great leader. How to lead. Even, rather comically in my view, on the Frontline site, something about social work being a ‘leadership profession’. Most...
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Parting Shots – Why I left my Social Work Post and What I’d change
I left my job as a Mental Health Social Worker, AMHP, BIA, Practice Educator and all that I wrote about here last December. While I can’t be too specific about my current role, it’s (unsurprisingly...
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10 reasons I disagree with Frontline and fast-tracking Social Work Training
Frontline is a scheme dreamt up by the IPPR who published a report – which has since been embraced by the government and opposition – which builds on the Step Up to Social Work model of social work...
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There and Back Again
I didn’t think I’d come back again but I’m pondering it now. I have a new job and a new role. While I’m still a registered social worker, I’m no longer working in the local authority and am no longer...
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