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Police autonomy is the way forward for social work
by Steve Rogowski Under New Labour, there have been longstanding concerns in the public services about the amount of bureaucracy and resulting pre-occupation with paperwork, targets and performance...
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Welfare reform green paper: threats and punishment won’t work
by Neil Bateman The welfare reform green paper (published on 21 July) contains yet more proposals for toughening up the benefits system. It seems there is no turning back when it comes to these ideas...
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Social Work Practice, ‘Place-Shaping’ And Some Worrying Contradictions
by Peter BeresfordHolidays are with us again and for me it’s back to the South Norfolk coast and the joys of Hemsby, Scratby, Caister and Great Yarmouth. But somehow as you’ll see, switching off...
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Adult green paper: duty, obligation and diversity should be the focus
By Kalyani Gandhi (left) and Helen BowersThe government is proposing to sort out our social care system byproducing a green paper on better funding options. We believe such anexercise is too narrowly...
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Health inequalities for black and minority ethnic people with learning...
by Andrew Holman At last night’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on learning disability, I got the chance to ask Sir Jonathan Michael a question about his report on the health of people...
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Children with disabilities deserve better public facilities
by Julie MarriottImagine a public toilet floor – filthy and grimy from use. Now imagine having to put your vulnerable and most precious gift on that toilet floor – your child. I have to do this on a...
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We mustn’t let the adult care green paper become a damp squib
by Peter BeresfordThe social care green paper’s ambitious title: Shaping The Future Of Care Together sums up the dilemma that has long faced it and which probably explains its greatly delayed arrival....
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Adult care green paper less than bold and visionary
by Simon HengLast year, my 76-year-old mother was failing. She could barely walk;she was having difficulty in looking after herself physically, and wasbecoming confused. She certainly couldn’t drive....
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‘Free personal care plan makes a mockery of the adult green paper consultation’
by Peter BeresfordThe prime minister’s party conference commitment to introduce free home care for people with the highest needs has made a further mockery of the government’s green paper...
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The care service cuts that so often turn into own goals
by Geoff EttridgeOver many years as a local authority manager I often saw examples of savings proposals put forward by other directorates or agencies that had financial consequences for social care....
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