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Failings in police, social work and NHS joint working ‘contributed to’ mental health deaths

Fri, 05/10/2013 - 17:07
Highly critical review of police response in mental health death cases exposesa culture of “buck passing” between social workers, NHS staff and police forces.
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A quick guide to mental health payment by results and its impact on social work

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 17:21
Alex Turner pulls out five key points on the payment by results scheme being road tested by adults’ mental health social workers in England
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Transfer of mental health social workers to NHS 'hampering' personalisation

Tue, 04/16/2013 - 16:23
Poor joint working and clash between medical and social models of mental health also among factors that are delaying personal budgets delivery in parts of the country, study finds
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Drop in number of social workers funded to train as AMHPs

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
Overall number of social workers being put through AMHP training by local authorities drops, as social workers warn that budget squeeze and workload pressures are contributing to shortfall in trainees.
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Direct payments, personal budgets and individual budgets

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
Direct payments and personal budgets are a central part of the personalisation agenda to give service users choice and control over their care and support.
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Why my social work experience led me to specialise on foetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
After 27 years as a practising social worker Liam Curran became a certified trainer on foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Here, he tells Community Care about the highs and lows of his new job.
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Social work 'should be transforming mental health'

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
It’s time for mental health social work leaders and councils to pull together to assert social care and social work’s role in mental health care, writes the College of Social Work’s Ruth Allen.
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Social workers need to fight the threat to social models of mental health care

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
The medical domination of mental health threatens to railroad the social perspectives that underpin social work and are vital to quality care. It’s time to fight back, writes Daisy Bogg.
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Three-quarters of Camhs staff see budgets slashed as morale plummets

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
Survey of workers in children's and adolescent mental health services reveals a demoralised workforce struggling with rising caseloads, lengthening waiting lists and dwindling team numbers.
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How the law decides responsibility for funding mental health care

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
A recent case shows that councils can still be made responsible for funding a person's mental health aftercare even if they have no previous connection with the area, says legal columnist Ed Mitchell.
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10 ways service users want AMHPs to improve Mental Health Act assessments

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
The 2012 national AMHP leads network conference heard from a service user who is using her experiences of the mental health system to help AMHPs reflect on Mental Health Act assessments. Andy McNicoll reports.
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Mental health patients sent 80 miles away for 'poor care' amid bed crisis

Sun, 04/14/2013 - 07:42
Year-long inquiry into schizophrenia care calls for "radical overhaul" of poor acute mental health care and warns many inpatient units are "stressful, chaotic" places.
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Drop in number of social workers funded to train as AMHPs

Tue, 04/09/2013 - 15:38
Overall number of social workers being put through AMHP training by local authorities drops, as social workers warn that budget squeeze and workload pressures are contributing to shortfall in trainees.
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Direct payments, personal budgets and individual budgets

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
Direct payments and personal budgets are a central part of the personalisation agenda to give service users choice and control over their care and support.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

Why my social work experience led me to specialise on foetal alcohol spectrum disorders

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
After 27 years as a practising social worker Liam Curran became a certified trainer on foetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Here, he tells Community Care about the highs and lows of his new job.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

Social work 'should be transforming mental health'

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
It’s time for mental health social work leaders and councils to pull together to assert social care and social work’s role in mental health care, writes the College of Social Work’s Ruth Allen.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

Social workers need to fight the threat to social models of mental health care

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
The medical domination of mental health threatens to railroad the social perspectives that underpin social work and are vital to quality care. It’s time to fight back, writes Daisy Bogg.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

Three-quarters of Camhs staff see budgets slashed as morale plummets

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
Survey of workers in children's and adolescent mental health services reveals a demoralised workforce struggling with rising caseloads, lengthening waiting lists and dwindling team numbers.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

How the law decides responsibility for funding mental health care

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
A recent case shows that councils can still be made responsible for funding a person's mental health aftercare even if they have no previous connection with the area, says legal columnist Ed Mitchell.
Categories: Communities RSS Feed

10 ways service users want AMHPs to improve Mental Health Act assessments

Fri, 04/05/2013 - 14:30
The 2012 national AMHP leads network conference heard from a service user who is using her experiences of the mental health system to help AMHPs reflect on Mental Health Act assessments. Andy McNicoll reports.
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If I were running the country - encouraging business

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 09:33

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Minimum wage

Fantasy government - what would I do if I were in government?  Well how about reduce corporation tax, increase income tax, increase minimum wage and invest in job creation in the regions?  That would be a good start - create jobs where there are workers, then make sure that the right amount of tax is collected and at the same time reduce spend on benefits which are only used to increase profits of selfish organisations.

Would it work?  Have your say.

PwC Report on the Current State of Project Management

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/17/2013 - 10:44

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PwC Project Management ReportPwC found that successful companies are getting more mature in their project management ability.  This raises the game – successful companies have lower costs from fewer failed projects, and less successful companies have to work harder to catch up.  There are some important lessons to take this report for everyone – Read more…

Joy instead of tedium

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 21:04

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The Office

Every office has them - the tasks that have to be done that nobody likes doing.  Whether it's the audit, the wages, standard letters, whatever it is - someone has to do it and it feels like a waste of time and money.

Why should you care?

So you employ somebody, so why do you care about how tedious the task is? Well they are costing money, to do something that could be done far more effectively.

Learning from the Past

Submitted by HugoM on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 20:27

Evidence for service improvement

Many public service changes have little basis in evidence. Their success (or otherwise) does not appear to depend on how 'good' the policy itself is, but rather on how it has been implemented. This relies on staff attitudes and relationships. My research falls into a number of broad categories: finding out what is currently happening; what people think about it; and what people think it will mean.

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Consumer Price Index (CPI) Calculator for SROI

Submitted by Hugo_Minney on Tue, 04/16/2013 - 10:05

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CPI components

When calculating a Social Return on Investment (SROI) evaluation or SROI forecast , sometimes you have to rely on published figures from reports.  But if these are from a few years ago, then they probably need adjusting for inflation.

There are calculators on the web to do this for you, but I found them cumbersome and it was difficult to keep a record of what calculator I'd used, and how, for which value - auditability and transparency is vital for SROI.  So here's a spreadsheet to do this properly!