Social Work, Cats and Rocket ScienceSo this piece of writing is a bit of an early morning reflective supervision session at the end of laptop as I take a breath, and pause, and begin to absorb just how truly terrible the casualty numbers are from this virus. In a week which has distorted comprehension to such a point that the […]
Social Workers have our own version of the old joke – how many social workers does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is, and always will be, ‘one, you’. We change the light bulb, we don’t refer on for someone else to sort. We need to be there when everyone else […]
A few years ago, when I was a Team Manager, I chaired a meeting about a man who the Local Authority had recently placed in a care home. During the meeting I noticed that the man’s mother Sheila was becoming increasingly frustrated by the meeting, in particular she became fidgety as the Social Worker insisted […]
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 […]
Social Work, Cats and Rocket Science 