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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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