Social Work, Cats and Rocket ScienceI am three months into a new job. Its really been hard. All the things you take for granted when you’ve known people for a long time are gone. Its hard having a bad day and no-one knowing you well enough to know that that is what your experiencing without explaining it. Its hard not […]
When you look at these pictures – what do you see? What do you think goes on inside of them? Would it surprise you to know that these buildings host social work – or would that be no surprise at all? It is hard to envisage community social work, working cooperatively in partnership with people, […]
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? This week saw the publication of a piece of research by Elaine James and the Adult PSW Network Co-Chairs Rob Mitchell and Mark Harvey. The research paper titled ‘An inquiry by Social Workers into evening routines in community living settings for adults with Learning Disabilities’ looks…
I received my social work qualification in the post just two days before I started my first ever social work post. New social workers, in the days before we defined Newly Qualified Social Workers, were just called a new social worker. The fact that you were newly qualified was never discussed. I was a social worker. […]
I once worked with a young woman called Emma (not her real name) who had a mental impairment and would sometimes go into town alone, whereupon two young women would sometimes meet up with her. Emma would withdraw £200 from the ATM which she would share with these people. After an hour or so, the […]
Do you remember your first interview for a qualified social work post? My guess is that you probably do. Having asked me my very first question on my very first interview for a social work post on the subject of why I had applied for the post, the chair of the recruitment panel inexplicably decided […]
On the 13th March 2017, the Law Commission published their report on Mental Capacity and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. The overdue report finally arrived a week after news broke of the death of Rusi Stanev, aged 61. The ruling on Stanev v Bulgaria by the European Court of Human Rights in 2012 was a […]
Firstly, if you haven’t read Mark Nearys fantastic book ‘Where Have All the Milkmen Gone’ then we think that’s a good place to start. Mark totally gets it when it comes to social work for Steven. He doesn’t want someone who thinks they know Steven and Mark better than Steven and Mark know themselves. He doesn’t […]
Saturday 10th December 2016 is World Human Rights Day a day when the ideals behind the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights, and the subsequent Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which provide a “common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations”, towards which individuals and […]
Image is Knitting a Justice Quilt by Mary O’Toole Guest contribution coauthors 2 Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) working in a social work team supporting people with a learning disability. This blog is in support of the second week of #7daysofaction in October 2016 – see https://www.sevendaysofaction.net/ We decided to become Approved Mental Health Professionals as we felt […]
Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science 