Who should pay for social care services?
Does it make sense to have separate funding systems for health and social care? And what should be the balance between the individual and the state in funding services? These
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A chance to change the way we think about dementia
Our attitude and approach to helping people with dementia can be as important as medicine and scientific research, says Katherine Blaker. At the G8 summit today there will be lots
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What do social workers do in hospitals?
It was a pleasure to interview Shelley Craig and Barbara Muskat about hospital social work this week. Their research is published in an article called Bouncers, Brokers, and Glue: The
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An undeniable right to digital inclusion?
The interim report of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s inquiry into spreading the benefit of digital participation in Scotland – published on 4 December 2013 – calls on the Scottish
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Pressure on social workers endangering children, survey suggests
Mounting pressure on social workers means that many do not have the time or resources to properly protect vulnerable children, a new survey suggests. Three quarters (73 per cent) of
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My First Taste of Social Work in the UK
I have officially been at work for a few weeks now and it was quite an exciting, overwhelming and frustrating experience full of meeting various team members, signing up for
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Re-Imagining futures: exploring arts interventions and the process of desistance
Charlotte Bilby is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northumbria University. Along with Laura Caulfield from Bath Spa University and Louise Ridley, also at Northumbria University, she carried out the
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Engage – Angela Donaldson
We feature Angela Donaldson of Arthritis Care Scotland who blogs on the challenges people with arthritis encounter everyday. A bit of a Dilemma – Promoting Healthy Lifestyles for Ordinary People
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Desistance and what helps in mental health recovery
Our Engage column features comment from leading figures within the world of social work. This time we feature the blog, Discovering Desistance, in which Marguerite Schinkel of Edinburgh University reflects
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Engage: The impact of restructuring social care services in remote and rural locations
Social worker and community councillor, Andrew Walker, shares his concerns on restructuring social care services “The Western Isles already has the highest proportion of people aged over 65 in Scotland
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