Social care left out in the cold again as Government fails to keep promise to address the broken system – iNews
Social care left out in the cold again as Government fails to keep promise to address the broken system iNews
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Social care left out in the cold again as Government fails to keep promise to address the broken system iNews
Matt Hancock promises ‘long-term’ plan to fix social care crisis will be produced this year iNews
Scottish Labour demand pay rise for social care workers Morning Star Online
Director of Adult Social Care job with Islington London Borough Council | 150785 LocalGov
My friend Julian Leff, who has died aged 82, was a psychiatrist who broke new ground in the treatment of schizophrenia, including through an approach that involved intensive group and individual work with families instead of just the patient alone. He also invented avatar therapy, in which patients create computer avatars of the voices they […]
My mother, Joyce Lishman, who died aged 73 of bronchopneumonia, was a leader in social work education and research. In 1993 she was appointed the first female professor at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen, where she led the school of applied social science until her retirement in 2011. In 2000, Joyce set up a […]
My wife, Daphne McKenna, who has died aged 65 in an accident, had a passionate, lifelong commitment to social work, child protection and mental health. She started out as a psychiatric nursing assistant at Cane Hill hospital, Surrey, in 1977, before moving to Lewisham social services in south London as a trainee social worker in […]
Black people are overmedicated, pathologised and overpoliced. The profession needs to work to dismantle racist power structures How should social workers respond to 500 years of white supremacy and racism against black people in society? This is one of the questions I have been grappling with since I qualified as a social worker two years […]
My wife, Helena Vernon, who has died of cancer aged 70, was a committed social worker in Bristol for more than 30 years. She was gregarious with an irrepressible sense of humour and a tenacious commitment to the welfare of children. She was also a great festival-goer and missed only one Glastonbury. Helena was born […]
My friend Joyce Rimmer, who has died aged 87, was a social worker and probation officer who spent her adult life campaigning for justice. Joyce was born in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, and grew up nearby in Hillesley, where her parents, Nellie (nee Carter) and Lionel Bennett, were farmers. After attending Katharine Lady Berkeley’s grammar school in […]