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 […]
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The milkmen of human kindness
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 […]
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“Oh No Love, He Can’t Vote”
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 […]
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To AMHP or Not To AMHP
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 […]
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Winter – Part 3
Each year the headlines going into the NHS winter seem to forecast a bleaker outlook. See last winter Or the one before that Whilst the 1st October still feels very autumnal, the build up to this years NHS winter is underway. 2016/17 building up to be like worst year for A&E performance in some […]
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Someone to Safeguard
The referral was pretty bog standard these days. The neighbours didn’t get Elsie’s permission for any of her details to be referred to Social Services. In truth it had never crossed their minds they’d be asked for this. When pushed by the call centre about the issue of consent they said that they didn’t think […]
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Happiness
Where do you start in the search to define happiness? Why would you even try? How arrogant must you be to think you could make a determination as to what constitutes the basis on which another person would be happy? The World Health Organisation has been exploring ideas about social and economic progress being measured […]
Firstly, thanks to @Harr_Ferguson for the title which was inspired by this tweet: Research needed on the role of pets in #socialwork – in my studies dogs tend to be the elephant in the room https://t.co/hkI7tZNN7d — Harry Ferguson (@Harr_Ferguson) April 8, 2016 I remembered this tweet today whilst driving home and reflecting on having heard several […]
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#SWisHumanRights
On Friday 200 of us came together in York from across the country to talk about social work, social justice and working together to to uphold the universal character of human rights as enshrined within the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. […]
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Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science 