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Weekly Social Work Links 30

As the days become more distinctly autumnal, I’m sharing some interesting links I’ve come across over the last week. As always feel free to share any other links you find that are related or...

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Benefits

I’ve made my position clear about ‘benefits’ over the year. ‘Benefits’ are not really benefits at all. I decided to look at the meaning of the word ‘benefit’ and found (according to dictionary.com)...

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Why I Quit BASW (British Association of Social Workers)

I felt a tinge of sadness when I finally decided to quit BASW (British Association of Social Workers). I’ve been an advocate and member for a good few years and I have a great deal of respect for a lot...

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RIP NHS?

Image via Wikipedia A truly national health service as conceived in the post-war years has been tottering on the brink for a number of years.  As the previous Labour government sowed, so the Liberal...

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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...

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Why I’m wrong – A response from BASW

I am not going to add anything to this post. After I wrote a post explaining why I left BASW, I was sent this as a response and agreed to publish it.  I’ll leave the questions and comments for others...

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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...

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Remembering 11th September and the aftermath

I don’t have any grand or notable memories  from 11th  September 2001. I wasn’t connected to New York in any personal way but this last  Friday, after work, I spent the evening by coincidence with the...

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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...

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Goodbye

For reasons that I can’t go into, I am having to close this site for a while. I want to allow people to take and copy information that they might want or need from it and will open it up over the next...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Personalisation in Practice

(Note – I wrote this for something else where it was not used but thought, I’ve put the work in and might as well see if anyone else finds it useful/interesting! That’s why it’s a slightly different...

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