Community Care articles from January 2008

Community Care archives from January 2008

Howard League wins inquiry for woman.(News)(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... Prisons and probation ombudsman Stephen Shaw has announced a public inquiry into the treatment of a young woman while in prison. The woman, known as SP, was remanded in custody when she was 16. When she turned 17 she was moved to an adult...

Union chief blasts go-slow by councils on equal pay.(News)
January 10, 2008... mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk A union leader has hit out at the slow progress made by councils in implementing equal pay, as revealed last week by employers, but said government funding remained the core problem. Last week, Local Government...

Call for Wanless-style shake-up of funding.(News)
January 10, 2008... The case for a "Wanless-style" reform of the adult care funding system in the forthcoming green paper gained weight this week, after a survey by the Caring Choices coalition showed strong support among users, carers and providers. A survey...

News.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... 10jan08p10buckley A block of flats in Bristol for deaf people have been named in honour of a social worker, Ciaran Buckley, who worked with deaf people in the city and died last year of cancer, aged 32. Ciaran's wife Geraldine and parents...

Doncaster case leaves councils exposed on abuse.(News)(Doncaster Council)(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... maria.ahmed@rbi.co.uk Councils have been warned to expect legal action from people claiming social workers did too little to protect them from abusive parents. It follows an unprecedented High Court judgement last month in which Jack...

Array of social care figures pick up New Year's gongs.(News)
January 10, 2008... Practitioners, managers and charity leadeers honoured amid rich crop of awards for social care sector caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service chief executive Anthony Douglas and Marjorie...

news in brief.(News)
January 10, 2008... DEMENTIA The Alzheimer's Society has backed the use of tracking devices for people with dementia to guard against them getting lost, so long as they want them and their use is appropriate. It has also called on people with dementia and...

News.
January 10, 2008... asylum seekers Charity raises plight of asylum-seeking children caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk Specially trained case workers should be allocated to families with children claiming asylum to ensure children's needs are met, Barnardo's...

News.
January 10, 2008... workforce 'Discriminatory health statement must go' - GSCC Regulator backs call to scrap health disclosure as a condition of registration caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk The General Social Care Council has called on the government...

News.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... mental health Courts failing to issue treatment orders Courts are failing to refer people with mental health problems for treatment when they issue community sentences, a Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health report claimed this week. ...

News.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... news in brief VISUAL IMPAIRMENT Blind and partially sighted people are four times more likely to be physically abused each day than sighted people, according to a survey by the charity Action for Blind People. But it also found that...

News.(Association of Directors of Adult Social Services, Voluntary Organisations Disability Group)(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... news in brief YOUNG OFFENDERS A poll has revealed that 65% of people do not believe that prison is an effective way of reducing offending among young people. The survey of more than 1,000 people, commissioned by crime reduction...

Work permit reprieve too little too late, say providers.(News)(English Community Care Association)
January 10, 2008... Unison welcome changes but employer group says many senior carers have already quit UK mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk Government concessions on allowing overseas senior carers to renew work permits fall short and have come too late for those...

News.(Brief article)(Photograph)
January 10, 2008... Mervyn Knights (centre) has been recognised as the best chef in the 170 care homes run by provider Barchester Healthcare. Knights, who works at Queens Court in Wimbledon, south London, won a cook-off judged by celebrity chef Paul Rankin (left)....

Harrow forced to backtrack on eligibility.(News)(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... adult care is rethinking its decision to restrict adult social care services to people with critical needs after a judge ruled it had not sufficiently considered its duties under disability discrimination legislation. The ruling,...

News.(Brief article)(List)
January 10, 2008... 10jan08p9click The top stories from 25 December to 3 January 1. Top ten social work jokes from Community Care's crackers 2. Learning disabilities: councils to take NHS role 3. Social care stars in New Year's Honours 4....

Poverty strategy needed to fill 'missing link', says charity.(News)(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... Disability poverty has risen in past 10 years, says Leonard Cheshire Disability disability caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has agreed to meet Leonard Cheshire Disability representatives next month...

News.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... news on the web RESOLUTIONS Leading figures in social care have shared their resolutions for 2008 with website readers. Brunel University professor of social policy and Shaping Our Lives chair Peter Beresford wants to work less and...

Recyclingrewards.(Good Practice)
January 10, 2008... "It's not easy for young people to buy local, particularly when they only have a set amount of money each week to do their shopping with" eaching young people to care about the environment is a good way to help them take an interest in...

Carer Column.(Column)
January 10, 2008... Raising the next generation without harming the planet Bringing children into the world is a huge task and one that has consequences for the environment. John Cossham offers tips on eco-friendly child-rearing hen we decide to have...

Lessons.(Features)
January 10, 2008... Defying the UK's reputation for nurturing a nation of unhappy children, sustainable schools are meeting key outcomes in the Every Child Matters agenda, writes Natalie Valios Green is the new black. With political parties vying to see whose...

Social care must prepare for the effects of climate change.(Good Practice)
January 10, 2008... It is time to act now and prepare for hotter summers or more vulnerable people could die, writes Green MEP Jean Lambert limate change will be a fact of life for future generations, but it is also starting to affect us now. While we urgently...

assessments: let's get real.(Opinion Columns)
January 10, 2008... Traditional assessments fail to take into account people's aspirations and lifestyles. But there is a better way service user voice As someone with moderate to severe cerebral palsy, I have been a user of social care and other services...

Opinion Columns.(Excerpt)
January 10, 2008... A bricklayer in Ilford, he was made unemployed in 1904 and recorded, You can imagine our anxiety. There being no unemployment insurance, the five pounds we had saved was soon expended. He and his family were saved from the workhouse by a...

Care homes attack CSCI over report on use of restraint.(News)(Commission for Social Care Inspection)
January 10, 2008... older people Care home bodies and older people's charities have clashed over the findings of a Commission for Social Care Inspection report into the use of restraint in care services for older people. The CSCI report, published last...

Interview/Profile.
January 10, 2008... Christmas is a time that brings people together - but it can also serve to underline the social isolation of some. Adults with mental health problems face negative perceptions at the best of times but at Christmas their difficulties are thrown...

Diary.(Diary entry)
January 10, 2008... Monday My daughter asks me what I do at work as I drive her to nursery. I tell her that, although I am mainly office-based, I often visit people in their homes. She asks why. I tell her that sometimes people need some help at home. Again, why?...

Driving change on emissions.(Working Lives)(Product/service evaluation)
January 10, 2008... Social workers worried about their car's emissions might consider making the Ford C-Max, which runs on biofuels, their next choice of vehicle, writes Mark Drinkwater CAR REVIEW Ford C-Max aaaaa Model: Focus C-Max FFV ...

Opinion Columns.(employees' life expectancies)
January 10, 2008... the hierarchy of death Peter Hain, take note: being at the bottom of the job pile is more than demoralising it can seriously affect your life expectancy A study recently released by Pension Capital Strategies reveals a league table of...

Clean up your act.(Features)(environmentally-friendly living)
January 10, 2008... Few of us have the power to change the world but all of us can give it a longer lease of life. Opening our series of articles on environmentally-friendly living, Lauren Revans looks at how simple eco-friendly changes in working practices can...

Green path to holidays.(Working Lives)
January 10, 2008... Worried about your carbon footprint when taking a break? Richard Hammond takes a metaphorical flight in the direction of some carbon neutral destinations Green places to stay in the UK * Apex Hotel, Edinburgh (0845 365 0000,...

Editorial Comment.(Editorial)
January 10, 2008... hot issue in the year ahead Usually there are several contenders for "social care event of the year", but in 2008 the smart money will be on the long-term care green paper expected in the autumn. The chorus of lobbyists is already...

I trimmedin a day.(Features)(Diary entry)
January 10, 2008... Chris Martin made only small adjustments to his working day in order to make a sizeable contribution to a more sustainable lifestyle. Here's how it panned out my waste line 06.00 Foolishly, the day I have chosen to live as a...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
January 10, 2008... Lewis contradicts on capacity safeguards As the carers for HL in the Bournewood case, we were amazed that Ivan Lewis said: "Our challenge in every community is to respect the fact that carers are usually the experts on their family...

Foster children's emotional needs.(Proven Practice)
January 10, 2008... Each week the Social Care Institute for Excellence analyses research findings behind specific social work practices Mark 10/1 Proven Practice Meeting foster children's emotional and behavioural needs the evidence base for...

Extra-care and older people.(Features)(Report)
January 10, 2008... Jill Manthorpe examines research into extra-care housing for older people and the role of remodelling accommodation The Research: Title: Remodelling sheltered housing and residential care homes to extra care housing: advice to housing...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
January 10, 2008... 10Janwordonweb Blogs From the social work blog by Simeon Brody New Year Honours and social care "Where was the recognition for social care in the New Year Honours List? It was as usual dominated by sportsmen and women,...

Editorial Comment.(Editorial)
January 10, 2008... It may not have felt like it last week, but Met Office figures confirm the UK is getting warmer. Global warming is becoming a reality with all its sinister implications for the predictability and severity of our weather. As new...

Features.
January 10, 2008... The government plan to build 10 "eco-towns" t is a familiar story: rapidly rising numbers of older people, more people living alone and nowhere near enough affordable, quality houses to accommodate them all. Add that to climate change and...

Diary.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... social skirmishes Rosie Warlock, a senior practitioner in children's social services, tells us what's on her mind in her weekly column * I have been doing social work for nearly 25 years. Twenty five years, and if I go on another...

Backchat.(Brief article)
January 10, 2008... social skirmishes Rosie Warlock, a senior practitioner in children's social services, tells us what's on her mind in her weekly column * Wikipedia declares that Boxing Day is all about a day once dedicated to giving gifts to staff and...

Seats of learning.(Good Practice)
January 10, 2008... A furniture recycling project is helping homeless people regain a sense of self-worth and perhaps give them a qualification, writes Keith Sellick he daytime can be a period of risk for homeless people, particularly if they are trying to...

our chance to speak up.(Opinion Columns)
January 17, 2008... As professionals we must take our lead from Sir Derek Wanless to make a stand for adult social care and enhance its status in 2008 In 2008 much of our energy will be focused on the challenges posed by the green paper on social care funding...

Features.
January 17, 2008... make social work greener It may not have felt like it last week, but Met Office figures confirm the UK is getting warmer. Global warming is fast becoming a reality with grim implications for the predictability and severity of our...

borderline decisions.(Opinion Columns)
January 17, 2008... Milder mental health cases deserve more than the GP's quick fix. Instead, psychological therapies should be available on the NHS What struck me the most about the conference I attended on psychological therapies in the NHS was the vast...

Back to school.(Good Practice)
January 17, 2008... The lack of social work practice placements in traditional settings led Lewisham Council to look to schools for help. Training school staff was key to success, reports Nina Jacobs ncreased demand for social work practice placements has...

Pathfinders target [pounds sterling]16m at disadvantaged families.(News)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... social exclusion caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk Social services will be encouraged to support disadvantaged families, rather than focus on individuals, in a [pounds sterling]16m pilot programme launched last week. The 12 to 15 family...

News.(Brief article)(Photograph)
January 17, 2008... disability review Consultation on Conservative MP John Bercow's government-commissioned review into services for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs ends tomorrow (Friday). He is pictured at a seminar...

Service fears as some drug action teams face cash cuts.(News)
January 17, 2008... More losers than winners, say charities, as Department of Health redistributes budget between areas substance misuse comcare.news@rbi.co.uk Charities have criticised changes in government funding for drug action teams, which will...

news in brief.(News)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... AWARDS The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is asking frontline staff to enter the seventh Health and Social Care Awards. This year sees the introduction of a new set of categories including recognising the importance of staff...

Council rejects YOI strip search complaint.(News)(Young Offender Institution)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... youth offending A Staffordshire Council child protection investigation has found that Werrington Young Offender Institution's use of strip-searching is lawful, after it was criticised by the chief inspector of prisons. The inquiry was...

News.(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... workforce Unions lay down gauntlet to Brown on pay Unions are bidding for pay rises of at least 6% for more than one million council workers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - three times the government's target. Unison,...

News.(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... STEVEN HOSKIN Community Care has been contacted by a practitioner who knew Steven Hoskin (right), who was murdered by his flatmates, after agencies missed 40 opportunities to protect him. The practitioner points out that Hoskin, who had...

News.
January 17, 2008... inspection Watchdog plan endangers mental health safeguards Lord Patel echoes fears of other inspection leaders over new commission mithran.samuel@rbi.co.uk The work of the watchdog for mental health patients, which is...

Skills for Care survey finds satisfaction despite wages.(News)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... workforce caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk Almost nine out of 10 social care workers in England are happy in their jobs, according to the largest national survey of the workforce published this week. The finding, in a Skills for Care...

BBC launches social care calculator on website.(News)(British Broadcasting Corp.)
January 17, 2008... adult care comcare.news@rbi.co.uk The BBC unveiled an online "care calculator" this week to give the public an idea of social care provision in England. It was launched on Radio 4's You and Yours as part of the consumer...

News.(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... asdf asd fasd A group of former runaways join children's secretary Ed Balls at the launch last week of government proposals to review provision for runaways. Also pictured are junior children's minister Kevin Brennan (second from left),...

Codes on sexual boundaries proposed.(News)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... The General Social Care Council wants to develop codes of practice on sexual boundaries for social care staff, which has proved a recurring issue in the regulator's conduct cases. It said it would be talking to other social care...

News.
January 17, 2008... 17jan08p7click 1. Users, carers and providers reject free care and means-testing. 2. GSCC: 'Discriminatory health statement must go' 3. Social care stars in New Year's Honours. 4. WhereforCare website to tackle public...

News.(closure of children's home)
January 17, 2008... Children's home to shut as justice board baulks at fees Sixty-seven staff receive redundancy notices after YJB rejects Liverpool Council's [pounds sterling]1m hike caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk A Liverpool secure children's home will...

News.
January 17, 2008... news on the web communitycare.co.uk WELFARE The Conservatives enraged disability and children's charities with their latest welfare plans. Under the proposals, a person would lose eligibility for jobseekers allowance for three...

News.(4Children charity's Make Space campaign)(Brief article)(Photograph)
January 17, 2008... all aboard Craig Jones (top right), director of 4Children's Make Space campaign, and a group of young bus users mark the launch of the Zip scheme, providing 11- to 18-year-olds in full-time education with free Oyster cards to access free and...

News.
January 17, 2008... Restriction in cash payments may strip clients of support caroline.lovell@rbi.co.uk A leading service user group has reacted angrily to a radical restriction in eligibility criteria for the Independent Living Funds (ILF), which gives...

News.
January 17, 2008... 17Jan08p8children Mithran Liberal Democrat and crossbench peers have raised concerns about plans to pilot GP-style practices to provide social work services to looked-after children. In a debate on the Children and Young Persons Bill,...

News.(Quotation)
January 17, 2008... "The question of whether social work is ripe for such change is likely to take second place to the need for something to be seen to be done." Crossbench peer Earl Listowel in a debate last week on the Children and Young Person's Bill,...

News.(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... Trafford told to raise compensation award The local government ombudsman has told Trafford Council to think again after it offered only a fraction of the recommended compensation to the family of a young disabled woman. Ombudsman Anne...

Hoskin needed third sector input.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
January 17, 2008... Welsh solution to financial abuse Few solutions are offered to a growing problem: the financial abuse of older people. However, in some Welsh counties one does exist in the form of The Friendly Trust, set up nearly 10 years ago to...

Laming: The verdict five years on.(Features)
January 17, 2008... Five years after the publication of Lord Laming's report into the failures that contributed to the death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbie, we look at progress on some of his key proposals. Sally Gillen reports Accountability Laming...

Editorial Comment.(Editorial)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... mystery of the happy staff The social care workforce never ceases to amaze. A new survey by Skills for Care reveals that, despite low pay and high levels of abuse, the vast majority of those working in adult social care are happy in their...

What the papers sayA weekly round-up of the national papers' take on social care.(Reviews)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... Solicitors shun legal aid work, survey reveals A survey by the Association of Lawyers for Children has found that 40% of law firms plan to reduce legal aid work in care cases in the wake of reforms. Source: The Guardian, Monday 7...

Reviews.(Book review)(Video recording review)
January 17, 2008... DVD First Response to Grief and Loss - For Practitioners Dealing with Children and Young People aaaaa Street Talk Limited [pounds sterling]39.95. Visit http://first-response.info/ Front-line practitioners dealing with grief...

'She is a very positive person who helps me stay out of trouble'.(True Partnerships)
January 17, 2008... Gemma Brown and Coral Lockwood met through the resettlement work provided by Peterborough Youth Offending Service. Here they explain how their relationship developed Coral Lockwood, 19, former young offender: "I first met Gemma when I...

The long road to enlightenment.(Features)
January 17, 2008... Andrew Mickel talks to Josh Harris about his autism, his struggle to be educated and his eventual placement in a Jewish religious school utism can severely restrict an individual's ability to communicate, which poses a problem when it comes...

Deliver on the promises.(Features)
January 17, 2008... As the government commits to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities, Mike Broad examines the plans and role played by Community Care's A Life Like Any Other campaign People with learning disabilities remain one of the UK's...

Regeneration games.(Features)
January 17, 2008... Glasgow emphasised community renewal in its successful bid to For a city, winning the right to host a sporting event such as the Olympic Games presents an opportunity to showcase itself and the country. But with the emphasis on building new...

Features.
January 17, 2008... In their own image Ever since the invention of the camera, photography has played a role in psychiatry. Mark Drinkwater examines these historical beginnings and highlights examples of photography in contemporary mental health services...

Winter warmers.(Working Lives)
January 17, 2008... Already abandoned your new year's resolutions? Debts piling up from Christmas? Fed up with the short days and grim weather? For most of us this is the time of year when we realise we have already failed to keep our new year's resolutions,...

Opinion Columns.(Viewpoint essay)
January 17, 2008... britney breaks into pieces It is easy to be judgemental about the US star but her outlandish behaviour is evocative of many mental health service users A quarter of a million people have been displaced in Kenya, Pakistan is on the...

Assessing mental capacity.(Research Realities)
January 17, 2008... Each week the Social Care Institute for Excellence analyses research findings behind specific social work practices the evidence base for social care practice ithin the context of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, mental capacity means the...

Options for children in care.(Research Realities)
January 17, 2008... Susannah Bowyer analyses research into an intensive service that aims to prevent children staying in care too long The RESEARCH Title: Evaluation of the service Option TwoAuthors: The team of researchers led by Donald Forrester was a...

Backchat.
January 17, 2008... jason and the jargonauts Jason's quest for the golden fleece of plain English Welcome to an occasional column seeking to expose purveyors of social care gobbledygook God love the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The adverts last...

Editorial Comment.(Editorial)(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... merger upsets inspectors The new year has not brought new priorities. Gordon Brown has lost no time in saying how committed the government is to modernising the NHS. He's desperate for us to concentrate on political progress not party...

The long road to enlightenment.(Interview/Profile)
January 17, 2008... Andrew Mikel talks to Josh Harris about his autism, his struggle to be educated and his eventual placement in a Jewish religious school "Faith has affected my approach to autism in that I only see positives" Andrew Mikel (As there...

Diary.(Brief article)
January 17, 2008... Rosie Warlock #3 I been doing social work for nearly 25 years. Twenty five years, and if I go on another course where the trainer looks at us all and says, "Now, what I'd like you all to do is to split up in to small groups and discuss the...