Browsing All Posts published on »November, 2011«

Rethinking Personal Budgets in Social Care

November 18, 2011 by

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Reading Community Care, I saw that NLGN (New Local Government Network) have published a report stating that the ‘rush towards personal budgets’ must be slowed down. I’ve tried unsuccessfully to find this report on the NLGN website but haven’t been able to do so am reliant on the third party reports from Community Care but […]

Enjoy earthy body smells! Meet a homosexual! Make “far out” friends!

November 17, 2011 by

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While browsing through various assessment scales I came across the Sensation Seeking Scale (Word document), a psychological tool published in 1971 for identifying personality traits that make people prone to risk-taking, experience-seeking or disinhibited behaviour. It asks the individual to choose between two different statements and decide which applies more to them. For example, 1.A […]

On Trolling for a Living

November 16, 2011 by

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Can there be any more pointless occupation than being a “professional contrarian”? I just don’t get it. Surely the purpose of a writer is to say something interesting or informative, rather than just coming up with the most facile disagree-with-everything bile purely for the sake of getting a reader reaction? Okay, I can understand there […]

Is the CQC fit for purpose?

November 16, 2011 by

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There was an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday about the Care Quality Commission which was set up as a new regulatory body for health and social care in 2009. The CQC is headed by Cynthia Bower at a salary of £195,000 pa who was previously the Chief Executive of the West Midlands Strategic Health […]

Supervision and Social Work

November 15, 2011 by

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In advance of an the SWSCmedia chat on supervision (15/11/2011 – 8pm GMT), I thought I’d share some thoughts of my own experiences of supervising and of being supervised. I’m not a manager but I am a Practice Educator so my experience of supervising is around supervising students rather than other practitioners and I have […]

What Kind of Therapy?

November 14, 2011 by

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A lot of my working day is spent doing psychological therapies. Despite the image of child psychiatry as Ritalin-obsessed drug pushers, CAMHS probably makes more use of talking treatments than any other branch of NHS mental health services. Hence I take a keen interest in news about psychotherapy. Just recently I was browsing a petition […]

What is a Deprivation of Liberty? – Thoughts on Cheshire West and Chester Council v P

November 11, 2011 by

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I accept that this post is about something of a niche in the corner of health and social care but it’s an area I have some interest in as I’m a Best Interests Assessor. This is going to be a long haul of a post so I’ll start this time with a glossary. Deprivation of […]

Falling through the Gap

November 9, 2011 by

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Like others, I read with a deep sense of sadness about the deaths by suicide of Mark and Helen Mullins, a couple in Coventry who were struggling against the insurmountable barriers set up by a social services and social security system that seemed to be weighted against them – existing between them only on £57.50 […]

Little Hope In The Big Society

November 8, 2011 by

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Although I’ve been to the centre once before, I’m lost in the maze of this industrial estate. Every unit looks the same, sharp angles and harsh functionality, and my satnav has given up. I think it’s shrugging in helplessness so I turn it off, park up and walk.   After a couple of aimless minutes, […]

Opening Secret Courts

November 7, 2011 by

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As it happens, I work a lot around issues of Mental Capacity in my day to day work so I have more than a passing interest in the dealings of the Court of Protection. The Court of Protection, you see, has a hand in many of the issues that might relate to decisions that are […]

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