Category: Community Care- Adults
Four workers have been convicting of mistreating people with learning disabilities in their care, following the trial into abuse at a hospital uncovered by a BBC investigation. Matthew Banner was convicted of five charges of ill-treatment of a person in his care, while Peter Bennett and Ryan Fuller were each convicted of two charges and […]
Beverley Tarka this week became the first black president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) since its establishment in 2007. Taking the helm at ADASS at its annual spring seminar this week, the importance of her appointment – and her position as a role model for others – was not lost […]
Care worker pay should be raised, charges for services cut and people be provided with clear rights to support as part of a shift to a more personalised, accessible and fair adult social care system, set out today. However, significant investment and political will are required to realise this ambition from a context of significant […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From the Finley Boden case to how Fatima Whitbread went from looked-after child to champion and the children’s services with a history of failure that were rated good, here’s what you […]
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll. Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. This week our line-up has a theme: public criticism of social workers. […]
The government’s decision to shelve the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) is “an unacceptable blow” to the thousands of people currently unlawfully deprived of their liberty. That was the damning verdict of the country’s leading advocacy providers, VoiceAbility, after the government announced last week that it would not implement the LPS this side of the next […]
To some, at first glance, working in a hospice might seem a gloomy place to practise social work. However, Wendy Ashton, joint education lead at the Association of Palliative Care Social Workers (APCSW), believes social work in palliative care is about celebrating life rather than focusing on death. “This is proper social work, this is […]
By Lorraine Currie The timeline provided by Community Care, from the 2014 Cheshire West judgment to the government’s postponement of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS), is incredibly helpful in reminding us of events we would otherwise forget. What I would add to that timeline is that the original impact assessment for the Deprivation of Liberty […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From Paul O’Grady’s death and a documentary about the treatment of austistic people in psychiatric wards to the rising food insecurity experienced by social care workers, here’s this week’s line-up: Former […]
Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week. From Paul O’Grady’s death and a documentary about the treatment of austistic people in psychiatric wards to the rising food insecurity experienced by social care workers, here’s this week’s line-up: Former […]