Female NHS staff aged 51 to 65 are more likely to be carers. 1 in 3 NHS staff are carers compared to 1 in 11 in the population. This has significant implications for retention and reminds us there still is much to do to bridge the gender gap especially in leadership roles

One word ratings should never have been mimicked by CQC and can say with confidence that I challenged the introduction of them at the time internally. It oversimplifies the complex and can give false assurance. I hope CQC follows Ofsted on this as it followed in introduced

Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 is now live, read the guidance here: gov.uk/government/pub… Sign up here to receive our bulletin later today: safeguarding.network #KCSiE24 #KCSiE2024 #edutwitter

Work by The King's Fund highlights that Mental Health Act 1983 detention rates are nearly four times higher in deprived areas than more affluent parts of the country. Explore the links between poverty and mental health in a new blog. researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/news-vi…

📽️Recording available now! If you missed last week's fascinating presentation by Alice Ievins on 'The limits of reform: Punishment and sexual offending' you can watch it on our YouTube channel. 👁️youtu.be/8AsyW7FaWBs

Paul McCartney on the last time he saw George Harrison.

The gift of a contributory life. Listen, learn, lift up. Pray for the loss. Dig in and do what you can.

My mother died when I was a child and I patch the memories together as I have all my life but the gap has always been there. Even if we can’t find cures for forms of leukaemia, we can find better ways to support. Over 40 years now. Always with me as a loss if not a memory.

We are recruiting up to 30 education quality assurance partner inspectors. We are looking for social workers who are AMHPs or BIAs. Inspectors will assess AMHP and BIA courses. The commitment will be at least 10 days per year. Apply: ow.ly/JyLf50TaTW5 #SocialWorker

There may come a point in life where you have to choose between the appearance of goodness and actual goodness. For me it was October 7th. My heritage plays a large role in why I have been vocal about antisemitism since then. But in fact, more fundamentally, it comes down to…

Has #socialcare used the centrality of human relationships in care settings as 'a convenient excuse not to modernise'? Interesting challenge from Prof. Martin Green Care England 💚

September 2024 Mental Capacity Report now out - and walkthrough: mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/september-2024…

The Grenfell disaster laid bare a sad truth. It showed us that people living in social housing were not listened to, no matter how much they tried to speak up. Change will only come if we tackle the culture that too often treats social housing tenants like an afterthought 👇🏾

Please give our Social Work, Cats & Rocket Science Podcast a little listen. A ‘Back to Skool’ special to mark the new academic year & with some new voices! Practice Education, SW Students, cracking Social Workers & some great tunes. open.spotify.com/episode/69XRzE…

Deeply troubling. Telling staff not to attend training to understand antisemitism is quite an ‘error’ and does little to reassure Jewish patients and staff. Mistakes happen. But behind mistakes can lie institutional racism and human prejudice. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/0…

The rows of empty benches in this & the next post speak volumes about the low political priority given to #socialcare. Unless this changes nothing will change.

A brand new ‘Social Work, Cats & Rocket Science’ podcast with brilliant host Catherine Mawn alongside social work student Jodes and Social Worker & WPS/PE Rumbidzai Mashavave & Team Manager and AMHP Hamza Madni A Back to Skool Special. Please have a listen.

"What Do We Know About Sharing Power in Co-Production in Mental Health Research? A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis"

Good leadership requires humility and respect for all regardless of status/band/grade. read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?asin…

It’s abhorrent & sadly predictable. Any parent who’s fought for child’s service knows the feeling that doing so may be held against you - or worse, your child. Mother blaming, defensive practice, splitting or “picking off” to “isolate” is systemic. (And yes, not always).