How likely does it need to be that a person who wants to be assessed for adult community care services from a local authority will actually be in need of them? That is the question posed in a new case decided today, NM, R (on the application of) v London Borough of Islington & Ors… [Read more…]
February 29, 2012 by ermintrude2
The GSCC as the body which registers social workers in England has been, since its inception, responsible for the registration of people who study social work at universities too. As the GSCC was one of the victims of the infamous (and in my opinion, rash) ‘bonfire of the quangos’, the role of registering social workers… [Read more…]
February 27, 2012 by celticknotblog
The case in the Court of Appeal of two nurses dismissed for their role in the unlawful restraint of a patient with dementia seems an interesting case study in judicial empathy. Its citation is Crawford & Anor v Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust [2012] EWCA Civ 138 (17 February 2012), but I’m going to… [Read more…]
February 25, 2012 by celticknotblog
The proximity of two recent judgements apparently challenging the right of Christians to practise their faith has led to much media interest including the headline ‘Christianity on the Rack’. One of the two concerned public prayers at council meetings. Responses have included ‘a plague on both your houses’ from those who dislike the fervour of… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012 by celticknotblog
The case of T, R (on the application of) v Greater Manchester Police & Anor [2012] EWHC 147 (Admin) (09 February 2012) concerns a student who had single entry on his otherwise unblemished enhanced CRB: at age 11 he received a police warning for bicycle theft. Problems with enhanced CRBs are a recurrent theme among… [Read more…]
February 24, 2012 by ermintrude2
Yesterday Cynthia Bower resigned at the Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission. I remain amazed that she was ever seen as competent to run it in the first place but it’s easy to be wise in hindsight. Her departure is no surprise as the organisation has consistently been shown to be ineffective and unable… [Read more…]
February 23, 2012 by ermintrude2
Community Care carried an article a couple of days ago about Paul Burstow and the College of Social Work potentially turning their attention to the current training of Best Interests Assessors and finding the paucity of the system as it exists now to be in need of reform. I’m a Best Interests Assessor as well… [Read more…]
February 22, 2012 by ermintrude2
The Daily Telegraph today prints a letter which sets out the need for a ‘Dignity Code’ in Health and Social Care calling on Hospitals, Care Homes and other institutions to prevent ‘issues of abuse and neglect’. The article accompanying the letter, the Telegraph says, will encourage care workers to have this code written into their… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012 by Zarathustra
Earlier this week I commented on the worrying state of complaints procedures at the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy. Since then somebody has forwarded on to me an e-mail that’s doing the rounds in the UKCP. It appears to show a senior figure in the organisation expressing thinly-veiled criticisms of the way the UKCP is… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012 by politicalnurse
Today a member of the government on the radio said that the NHS should not be a political football how wrong can he get? The NHS has always been a political football because it is what this nation holds dear as our core of humanity. Without the NHS we would have less work, poorer living… [Read more…]
February 29, 2012 by celticknotblog
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