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• A tougher GSCC? No thanks!

  
  The Social Care Experts Blog — Authority: 420
   by Allan Norman You might have thought from the media coverage of the GSCC between its discovery of a backlog of conduct cases and its sacking of its Chief Executive , that its problem was that it wasnt tough enough, and the solution was that in future it would need to be tougher. Neither is the case. Dame ...
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• How to appreciate your client group

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 430
  This has happened to me before. Im presently sat at home typing thisrather than in the office because in my attempt to be Kobe Bryant Iended up sprawled on the floor clutching a badly sprained ankle.Thats not what has happened before though. What has happened to me before is appreciating in avery small way what ...
  1 day ago

• Social workers: have you seen colleagues snap under pressure?

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  Childrens services director Kim Bromley Derry recently said it was not uncommon for social workers to become vindictive when faced with aggressive and abusive service users.
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• High social worker sickness rates reported in Liverpool

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 430
  Liverpool social workers took 28,727 days - equivalent to 78 years - of sick leave in the first nine months of 2009, the Liverpool Echo reported today . This works out at an average of 12.7 days off per staff member between January and September.   However, when you compare this to the national average ...
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• The GSCC needs reminding of whom it truly should serve

  
  The Social Care Experts Blog — Authority: 420
  by Denise Platt Log onto the website of the General Medical Council (GMC). Pretty quickly you will read that "we protect patients by dealing firmly and fairly with serious concerns about doctors". The General Teaching Council says: "We work for children through teachers". Now look at the General Social Care Council ...
  1 day ago

• An Afternoon of Networking with The Greater Washington Society of Clinical Social Work

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 131
  On a dismal fall day, I headed to an event, Fall Member Open House, hosted by The Greater Washington Society for Clinical Social Work (GWSCSW).  Some readers may not know that I am a license social worker and I very interested in eventually having a private practice in the future, so this event was of particular ...
  4 days ago

• Excellent Employment News

  
  EditorMom — Authority: 106
  I interrupt the usual topic here—editing—to bring you this good news: Despite this horrid economy, my 26-year-old daughter, Rebecca (aka Becky), who earned her masters degree in social work 2 years ago, was just this morning hired for her first professional job as a mental-health counselor. I told her that in ...
  4 days ago

• Government responds to Community Care social work petition

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  The government has responded to Community Cares campaigning petition requesting the Prime Minister call on The Sun to give fair coverage to social work issues.
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• Get tickets for exclusive social work screening of Mariah Carey film

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  Mad World has been taking a close interest in the US film Precious , which features singer Mariah Carey (left) playing a social worker. Now it appears that interest has paid off...
  4 days ago

• The virtue of thought before action

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 417
  It is not uncommon that I might ‘put my foot in it’ but I had a very narrow escape earlier in the week. I needed to place Mrs J in a residential home. There were no beds at the preferred home of choice of her family members and she had needed to be discharged from hospital weeks ago really. I sent them lists of ...
  4 days ago

• It’s been awhile…

  
  Amy's Life in Brief — Authority: 91
  We’ve had a lot going on at work that if I at all discussed, my secret identity would be quickly identified…should some random person from my workplace stumble across this blog. So far in the last month, The D has had some medical testing, which turned out A-OK. That was a real relief since if it hadn’t we ...
  4 days ago

• Neo-liberal values threaten the very existence of social work

  
  The Social Care Experts Blog — Authority: 420
  by Steve Rogowski, a social worker (children and families) with a local authority in NW England The Social Work Taskforce is due to report later this year but Iwonder if it will deal with one of the most fundamental issues. It willcome up with (yet another) definition of social work, though whetherthis will cover ...
  5 days ago

• Of CTOs

  
  Fighting Monsters — Authority: 417
  Community Treatment Orders – Supervised Community Treatment – however it is termed it is one of the aspects of the amended Mental Health Act that I thought I would likely not have significant contact with on a day to day basis. I was right. But my experience might be far from typical as the take-up of these ...
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• Half of U.S. Kids Use Food Stamps Before Age 20

  
  churchrelevance.com — Authority: 467
  Mark R. Rank of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis co-authored a study analyzing the financial circumstances of U.S. kids (ages 1-20) over a period of 30 years. Key findings include: 49% of all U.S. kids will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point ...
  6 days ago

• Recognizing Depression

  
  ALS Association of Greater New York — Authority: 412
  By Debbie Schlossberg, LMSW A topic of frequent discussion with PALS and CALS is depression. It almost always comes up at some point in our meetings, either because I inquire or because the PALS/CALS initiates the conversation. As a matter of fact, I’ve been asked countless times, “Wouldn’t anybody be ...
  6 days ago

• Well, that was quick...

  
  hatamaran says please spay and neuter, mmmk? — Authority: 118
  I showed up at my new job after a little training, and found that I had no office, no phone, no computer, and no place to sit. Huh? Couldnt they have stuffed a desk in the corner of one of the meeting rooms or something? Its a growing company and they do NOT have any of their processes down yet. Look, Ill be 45 ...
  1 week ago

• Mariah Carey "de-glamorises" for social work role

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  Singer turned actress Mariah Carey has described as "hideous" how she had to "de-glamorise" to play a "hard-knock" 80s social worker in the forthcoming film Precious .
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• National college of social work faces leadership challenge

  
  The Social Care Experts Blog — Authority: 420
  by Nigel Clarke Two years ago, I was asked by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) if I would chair an independent inquiry into a future professional body for pharmacists. The RPSGBs regulatory function had, arguably, swamped its professional body role, and when the government decided to create ...
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• Panorama: The child protectors

  
  Mad World — Authority: 427
  Panorama tonight looks like essential viewing, as it follows a team of child protection workers in Coventry.
  1 week ago

• 15 most stressful, lowest-paying jobs in the U.S.

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 427
  Who would have thought that Social Workers (No. 1) would have more stressful jobs than Film/Television Producers (No. 14)??? Commercial Photog is No. 8, Minister is No. 10, high school teachers are No. 15 on this list.
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