Category Archives: Professional Activity

[005.22] I know that you are afraid. I will do my very best to make sure you are safe

At the end of last week, we woke up with the news of war in Europe. I’m not going to discuss the responsibilities and the actions that led to this war (I will leave that for other posts – and twitter…), but it is expected that in the next days and weeks we will have more and more news about a war that is not that far from us.

[012.21] Care Review, Children’s Homes and Supported Accommodation

There is, currently, a huge debate around children social care (and so welcome it is), due to news around the lack of resources, the lack of quality of some provisions, the risks some children are facing and the lack of a long-term plan to address all this (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive). I have been thinking about writing something about this, but usually I end up just writing some bits in some debates on twitter. This post is exactly about this. My view about the arguments, my ideas, focused on the specific area where I work: Children Residential Care.

[011.21] Just a thought…

Sometimes you can’t stop wondering if it makes sense to continue providing and running children’s homes for a maximum of 2 or 3 children, accepting and working with the “hard to reach” and high risk children… Maybe it would be better to do what others do… bigger properties and not accepting children with high risksContinue reading “[011.21] Just a thought…”

[034.18] let’s just do the maths…

… and we’ll all see that this doesn’t make any sense. And sometimes, politics just requires a bit of good sense… Spending by English councils on children’s services has dropped by at least 9% since 2010, over a period when numbers of children “in need” rose by 5% and thousands more youngsters were taken into care orContinue reading “[034.18] let’s just do the maths…”

[031.18] – updates during holidays

Well… it seems like while I was in holidays, there were several updates in important documentation for social workers in the UK. Will have to catch up with it, after catching up and go through the 250+ emails that I had in my inbox when I arrived back last Monday, but it is for futureContinue reading “[031.18] – updates during holidays”