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Social worker endures isolation to learn practice lessons
Social worker endures isolation to learn practice lessons
Monday 27 June 2011 15:05
“I’ve only lasted half-a-day today. I feel tired and weary and I just needed to get away from the office.”
This was social worker Pam Stopforth speaking today on her first day back at work after a week pretending to be a lonely and isolated older person as part of social experiment organised for Isolation Week.
The experience, which included wearing vision-impaired glasses and diving gloves in order to carry out specific tasks and living alone without speaking to anyone for a week, proved unexpectedly taxing but left her with insights as to how to improve her own practice.
Further health bill delay risks confusion for social workers
Further health bill delay risks confusion for social workers
Thursday 26 May 2011 14:22
The government’s health legislation faces being further delayed until the autumn risking confusion for social workers set to re-register next year by putting back the abolition of the GSCC.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said today that the Health and Social Care Bill would be sent back to a committee of MPs for a line-by-line examination in light of government plans to make substantial changes in response to heavy criticisms.
