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"My grandma kitty brought my furmom and her sibs to eat at Lady Dolly's house and my fur mom was the only one Lady Dolly's Mom couldn't trap & get to a shelter. She brought me & my sibs back the next year and the humans were finally able to trap us."
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Well that lazy Mikey slept ALL Christmas morning! Evie & I helped with the unwrapping of presents and we got first dibs at the catnip stuff. And was there ever catnip stuff! We got a mousey with a velcro bottom (blush) and you stuff him with your own 'nip! We got a weird bird in an egg toy that chirps if you whack it. So what did I do but right away start pulling the coloured feathers out and trying to eat them. Mom was not impressed by that. And I tried to give the mousey a bath because he had catnip all over him!
Evie & I played in the paper and it was fun, even without Mikey to come stick up for me. Evie whomped me once but it wasn't so bad. Now Mikey is up and he's enjoying the stuff, too. We got a mat that Friday's Mom makes, it has 'nip INSIDE it and Evie & Mikey & I were rolling all over that. I like this Christmas business!
Big Sis Becky came back last night but I still went under the bed when I first heard her at the door and didn't come back out till I heard the door close behind her. Big Bro Joe came, too. The humans sounded like they were having fun, but I was still suspicious. I'm braver than I used to be, though. LAST year even after strangers left, it took me about half an hour before I'd come back out to sniff around. Evie says "that's fine, she's MY Becky and you're not allowed anyway". Well HUMPH to stuck-up Evie! She thinks she owns ALL the humans, mol.
Uh-oh, do you think she heard me? I hear her coming ... thump, thump, WHUMP!
Well, I deserved that one!
It was Nov 29th, the day after Thanksgiving last year when Mom set off down to Marysville WA to pick up a big kitty carrier containing a little bundle of black fur with great big scared eyes. That bundle was ME, and I had spent the night in a kitty trap in Lady Dolly's living room after stepping into it Thanksgiving night to get some delicious fried chicken (I'm pretty sure a certain gray & white Angel kitty gave me a nudge).
Mom wasn't sure how the whole "socializing" thing was going to work out since I was already 10 weeks old, and I surely had no idea what these great big humans were planning to do with me, but it all worked out great. I've come to love my family and I'm very grateful to Lady Dolly's Mom for caring about my fur mom and us kittens, and for working so hard to give us a chance for a better life than we could have as feral kitties. I'm so happy to have a warm forever home where I can sleep on a soft bed every night with Mom, Dad and Mikey.
THOUGHTS OF A FERAL - by Annette Easdon
(Dedicated by the author to all the kind and caring people who give the lonely ferals a little care, a little love, and a little hope.)
"I sit beneath the bushes as she fills my dish each day,
I only venture out to eat when she has gone away,
I know it will upset her when I turn away and hide,
As every day she tries her best to get me by her side.
I wish that I could let her know that I don't want to run,
And hope that she will understand it's nothing that SHE's done.
I'd like to have her stroke me and pat my weary head,
But fear will overcome and I'll run and hide instead.
For all the kindly people who feed the strays each day,
I pray the Lord will care for them as they have cared for me. "
See, it was one year ago on Saturday October 12th and Lady Dolly's Mom down in Washington State had just watched her beloved Michigan Wolverines lose to Penn State in quadruple OT, when the kitty she'd been feeding and trying to trap appeared for her usual supper and this time she had 3 little ones with her. One of them was ME, and we were somewhere between 3 – 4 weeks old.
Well, Lady Dolly's Mom had had no idea we were on the way even though she saw our fur mom every day! She immediately started thinking about how she could trap us before we got as wild and wily as our fur Mom, who had actually been caught in a trap once and managed to squeeze out, leaving tufts of fur and blood round the hatch (it must not have been set up properly!). She e-mailed my future Mom about us and asked if she would take one of us if we could be caught. Well, future Mom wasn't completely sure what she might be taking on with a feral kitten, but she said yes and asked for the black one because she knew that one would have the hardest time finding a home at the shelter. And the black one was ME! So from that day on, I've kind of had two Moms looking out for me (giggle).
That was Thanksgiving weekend up here in Canada, and it was Thanksgiving Day in the States when they finally managed to get me into the trap, but that's another story. I guess that makes me a cross-border Thanksgiving kitty, and I think that's pretty special!
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Chapter 1
"Wow. Kayla Lornet commented on your photo." I turned to look at my best friend Lindsay, sitting at my desk logged into my Facebook account.
"Ew. Loser. What'd she say?" I asked. Kayla wasn't very cool. I mean, she wasn't a total loser like Jenna McCoy, who, for the past 3 years, had brought her lunch to school in a briefcase.
But still not cool enough to hang with me and my crew.
"She said, 'Alison, you are SOO gorgeous! I wish I looked like you!' Ha ha" Lindsay tried her best to mimic Kayla's annoyingly high-pitched voice.
I laughed, "Reply for me. Say 'Kayla, don't say that, you are TOO pretty!'" FAKE. Kayla didn't wear makeup, she brushed her hair twice a day, if at all, and she bought all her clothes at Old Navy.
After typing my reply, Lindsay hopped off her seat and plopped back down onto my furry pink beanbag chair. She opened a bag of chips and turned on my TV.
"What are we gonna do today, Ali?" She asked, with a mouthfull of Dorito's.
I laughed, "You are disgusting."
Suddenly, my mom walked into my room. I don't remember the last time she was in here. A few years ago, 8th grade maybe, I had told her never to come into my room. If she did I would never speak to her again. A little harsh, but it worked considering she never came for a whole year.
"Way to knock first Mom." I said. She gave me an irritated look, the same one she always gives me, and gestured for me to come out into the hallway with her.
I sighed, and stepped out of my room.
Annoyingly, I asked my mom, "What is it?"
"You remember Hallie Pearson, right? You two were best friends in elementary school."
I sighed. Yes, I remembered Hallie. We used to be the best friends that anybody could ever have. That is, until 7th grade.
Hallie was nice and super pretty. But she just needed to grow up. Over the summer she was still wearing a one-piece and insisted on having play dates, instead of just hanging out.
I loved Hallie, she was my first real best friend. But after a huge fight mid-6th grade, we never spoke again.
"People grow apart" Is what I had explained to my mom when she tried to set me and Hallie up for another play date a few weeks after our friendship had ended.
"Moooom. Hallie and I aren't really friends anymore." I told her.
She looked hurt and I felt bad. My mom and her mom had known each other since me and Hallie met. And all parents know that if your kid isn't friends with somebody anymore, then you can't be friends with their parents.
"What happened, sweetie?" My mom asked, resting her hand on my shoulder. "Did you get in a fight?"
"No." I lied. "We just grew apart. She needs some time to grow up." I replied sharply.
From that day on, I did my very best to become the most popular girl at school. I didn't care who I hurt, how many hearts I broke, as long as I could prove to Hallie that I didn't need to be friends with a loser like her.
"What about Hallie?" I asked my mom, returning to our conversation.
"Her parents are going on a trip for a month and I offered to let Hallie stay with us." So she was still talking to Hallie's parents. Traitor.
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For the past year I have been on a journey through Social Work, finding myself unhappy with myself and the work that I was doing. Like many Social Workers the long hours, stress and missing out on valuable family time put increased pressure on not only me but my family that could not carry on.
However, as I looked for change so did Social Work and I started to wonder whether the two would meet. Questioning my confidence to practice and manage, worrying whether quickly my circumstances would change and what this would mean for my family? I found that this added pressure just made everything worse; losing the passion and the enjoyment I once had in Social Work.
Time quickly builds up momentum and I would hear daily how frustrated and under pressure my Social Workers were. Despite Social Work moving towards better outcomes and more direct work, I found myself working in an environment where the emphasis was still to get the 'square peg into the round hole' that looking into the whole picture was not encouraged to focus and comply with the guidance rather than what works best for each individual families.
I found that my voice had become lost, that my arguments were laughed at and finally I found myself targeted for standing up to this. For the first time in my carer I was being questioned about my risk assessment skills! A low blow and one that I never recovered from. My manager informed me that it is not the plan that protects the children but the people involved in the plan. A great idea, but what it lacked was the understanding that you need to be able to identify the right resources and people first in order to create the plan. This type of 'battery hen' Social Work made me angry and you could see that the pressure was having an impact upon not just me but the Social Workers.
This type of Social Work Practice requires and demands that each social worker works above and beyond what is already expected. It demands 100% compliance, no mistakes, no learning only action. 'Get it into Court!' I would often hear, despite the lack of Social Work Intervention, despite the lack of understanding of what it was like for the children or young person in that family!
I have learnt that I do not enjoy change or that I like to admit defeat and that I can not do something or make a change. Sadly this year that I have learnt that I can change, I can admit I can not do something and that if I can not make a change or difference then I need to move on. It has grated on me, especially with the recent resurgence in the media about Social Work change and rebuilding the confidence in Society of the competence of Social Work Practice. Why? because where Social Work is allowed to work it can make a change, it can make a big difference. For many Social Workers there learning can be lost from University when they join a work place that focus on their compliance completely losing sight of their Social Work Practice rather than trying to work on both issues together.
It has taken a while but I have not given up, I have found my focus again! So please do not give up, Social Work does make a difference and we are important in doing this.
The 'Social Work' Matrix
Have you ever sat in your office reflecting and thought about the amount of work that is required from you? You stop, look up and around you, you see time is flashing past; phone calls coming in from families, professionals, e-mails pinging into your inbox. I have had these thoughts and it has reminded me of a scene from the film 'The Matrix' where, the characters slow themselves down by controlling the computer coding within the matrix, in order to be able to control their surroundings and in one scene – dodge the speed of the bullets. I can often feel like this in my current role, the matrix code instead being the complex code in the world wide web is the complex amount of legislation, additional guidance, case law, private law and policies and procedures that social work tries to work within. Instead of bullets it is questions and they are fired in my direction all day. Many social workers will relate to the feeling they have everyday, of being completely overwhelmed and recognise that there will never be an ideal caseload that will prevent any person from this feeling.
Since the review of Child Protection in the UK by Eileen Munro, there has been no escape of the review and public scrutiny of social services and children services. There has been no decline in the number of referrals to children services or early years intervention or in the number of children that come into care. There has however, been dramatic cuts in funding to services, changes in the terms and conditions of employment, training and support to social workers. Where working over your hours was offered by social workers as a good will gesture in order to improve the outcomes of the children and families they were working with, has now been taken as granted in order to achieve the targets so tightly set.
It can feel suffocating as the timescales crash in, challenging assessment timescales to shrink to fit to court timescales. Further challenging the skills and assessments of social workers balancing the needs and demands of courts within the needs and wishes and feelings of vulnerable children and families. Social Work remains a complex serious of interventions based on communication, trust and learning of what it is like for the children to live within their home and family life. Of course, this involves skilled approach to break the quiet mistrust of the media stereotype image of social workers as child snatchers.
As a manager within this process I have found myself being pulled in all directions (literally sometimes), challenging the workers with their practice, whilst supporting and developing their learning needs and experiences. Hoping, from role to role within the umbrella of my title; manager, coach, educator, mentor, support. Carefully managing the day to day crises and enabling the work to be completed. Sometimes I wish I did understand the matrix code, I would delete the strands that bring suffering to the vulnerable. And programme more support services, to provide the support and understanding needed. Removing the stigma of living in a dangerous environment and the feeling that you can not speak up for fear of your children being removed or harmed. Instead of a multi million pound movie, I will carry on working within the offices, homes, schools, children centres and courts I visit, challenging my practice and experience in order to ensure the decisions that are made safeguard and promote the right outcomes.
On the Rise.
Like many Social Workers, I have been desperately holding on to the dream that maybe one day the promises of a 'different way of working' will come true. Change, is, and always on the cards within the day-to-day life of Local Authority work. However, 'Real' change does not happen as often. When Eileen Munro reviewed the child protection system there were plenty of areas that needed improvement. No one could argue that this was not true.
The level of red tape often meant that social workers were not spending enough time with children and families – this had to be cut and reduced, with more autonomy to be given to each Local Authority. In order to adapt its policies and procedures, to meet the needs of the child in need within its area. Consideration was to be given to the journey of the child through what is and remains complex and often slow child protection system, before a permanent placement could be found either within the family or away from the family.
Sadly, like any other great idea it comes at a cost – one where savings need to be made, ring fenced budgets removed and the consequences higher if mistakes or errors occur. Of course this is really important, Child deaths are completely unacceptable as is any child abuse.
But and there is a but! a big one as well. Is the continuing rise in cases being held by social workers and the one factor that makes a difference to the quality of work being completed. A factor that will stop social workers seeing children, completing their assessments, direct work with families and ensuring that their case recordings are completed. Let alone complete the research they need to keep their learning up to date.
It is easy to see how social workers can 'burn out' very quickly as the better you are at understanding complex cases the more you have. Where new procedures at the front door and early intervention work is supposed to be reducing the number of cases needing statutory assessment and intervention. The actual number of referrals continue to rise, as does the growing level of cases being held by social workers.
Whilst this Government feels and focuses on the need to better educate or create super social workers, the reality remains, that this will not resolve the current situation in social work. Even the strongest of social worker can only manage the daily pressures and struggles for so long before the pressure becomes too much. Armed with the knowledge however, that the grass is not greener anywhere else, often social workers are faced with hard decisions when the levels of stress have reached capacity. Meaning often social workers leaving front line social work with their experience and knowledge lost.
So as the number of cases rise so do the numbers of social workers leaving, making it more complex for local authorities to recruit and maintain experienced staff.
Child Protection
Working in a busy and demanding frontline Child Protection team it has become clear that there is a haze around what Child Protection is; what is the responsibility around safeguarding and what is the Family Courts' System role. It is not hard to understand how this has happened, when programmes like Panorama 'I want my child back' blur the complex and interesting debates together, making social work look like the evil big brother in a far bigger debate needed about safeguarding children.
Social Work is not the one single agency that has exclusivity in safeguarding children; "Safeguarding children-the action we take to promote the welfare of children and protect them from harm – is everyone's responsibility. Everyone who comes into contact with children and families has a role to play." (Working Together, 2013) and it is important to remember that 'No single professional can have a full picture of a child's needs and circumstances and, if children and families are to receive the right help at the right time, everyone who comes into contact with them has a role to play in identifying concerns, sharing information and taking prompt action'. (Working Together, 2013)
I have, however, seen a rise in the number of referrals I have to deal with on a daily basis since Serious Case Reviews about high-profile cases have become available for everyone to view. That the other key agencies' involved with working with children, have become more cautious about the support they offer and how. Preferring instead to refer to children's social care for early intervention, it is this intervention that creates tensions in the relationships between families and social services. Shaking off the image that the only role social work has 'is to remove children' is not an easy one, especially when it is so badly misunderstood,
Like many people in society – until I studied in social work and worked in a variety of settings with children – I did not fully understand, appreciate or want to believe that children could be harmed. However, as a Child Protection social worker, understanding what is 'actual' harm or the 'likelihood' of harm is extremely important in what is Child Protection; when the referral is received deciding whether there is an immediate need to protect and act, to investigate whether there is a Child Protection concern or whether the child is "in need." As defined by the Children Act 1989.
I have found that it is becoming increasingly common that this social work task is becoming harder and harder. Professional anxiety around 'what if' and 'this reminds me of X case!' leaves the complex task of gathering the information and analysis even more difficult.
As a social worker being presented with a picture of events, it is important to be able to see the entire picture to understand the situation. For example, a four-year old girl at nursery with a bruise on her arm and a statement of 'Daddy did it' raises anxieties. However, there are many dimensions that could make this statement either far more serious or far less sinister. It is very easy to be criticised for being overly cautious or overly zealous in an approach taken when you do not have the entire facts to help make this decision.
It is for this reason 'safeguarding' is so important for all those involved in a child's life. It is also for this reason that sometimes an answer cannot be gained to explain and identify harm and why, sometimes, decisions have to be made based on risk and probability. It is these decisions that often do not have an immediate positive outcome other than preventing possible serious harm to children – Where social workers are 'damned if they do and damned if they don't'. But even then social work is not about removing children; in the most, social work is about engaging families and making positive changes and is successful in doing this.
The Storm
It seems that nearly every day the storm that is front line child protection rages harder and harder. There appears to be no shelter from the relentless barrage of telephone calls, referrals, crisis and twists within family life. Everyday adult decisions impacting upon the most innocent and unprotected in our society, a comment that most may question, a point that makes me the most frustrated in my role as a social worker. Yes, Children's legislation is well recorded and there is a lot, especially around child protection and children who are looked after. Yet, sometimes I have been left wondering whether in all of the storm to safeguard children do we really still see the child? In a world where everyone wants whats best, but what does this mean? is it what is best for them or for the child?
There are some people who would like us to believe that the child protection system is broken, that children are not being safeguarded instead they are wrongfully removed to be forced into adoption. However, as much as the child protection system is blamed for its failings there continues to be a very real need for a system to be in place. In a society where adult needs continue to be placed in front of vulnerable children's; child deaths will continue and continue and continue. Each time the system is blamed, failing are examined giving further fuel to both sides of the argument. But what worries me more is the attitude in scapegoating parents from blame that instead it is not their fault or societies. Instead attempts are made to accuse social workers of colluding with solicitors to remove innocent children from their parents. Stories fuelled by high profile MP's and articles published in The Daily Telegraph, which lead to confusion and mistrust within society; creating tension and situations that may result in social care intervention where it might not have been needed.
It is clear that the government has no intention of changing its views on spending cuts, it is also clear that its hard-line policies on benefits will also not change. I am sure that this storm will continue being fuelled in every direction by adult fears about their own feelings around children. And like others working within the eye of the storm the daily interventions become harder and harder. Battered and wind-swept once children are safeguarded the storm continues with no chance to finish the paper work, no chance to return the phone call before the next big wave comes in. This is where the system is broken leaving many social workers leaving, buckling under the weight of the storm and not being sheltered by the Local Authority that they work for or by the government that creates the legislation in which they work to.
It is easy to be mislead into thinking that the aim of social work is simply to remove children, that this automatically solves all of the problems in the world. However, wouldn't it be great if it did! but it does not solve the problems and is not the aim of social workers. So for those that campaign against social work please understand that social work and child protection is not this easy. That the threshold for removal is far higher than you think and as a social worker there have been far more positive interventions than there has been removals. That the numbers of cases that are being dealt with on a daily basis are being managed and managed well.
This time next year we will be Millionaires!
'This time next year we will be Millionaires Rodney' (Only Fools and Horses). It's a nice thought and one I often dreamt about. The joy of never having to worry about 'How are we going to pay the bills?' Or 'Can I afford that top?' Is one that brings joy to me. If only! However, increasingly there is growing concern that private companies are starting to increase in their profit from the care of vulnerable children. A big business where children with complex needs are being placed into 'safe' accommodation, which is not being run by the Local Authority. More concerning is that some of this provision when inspected by Ofsted is not achieving the inspection outcome of Excellent that should be required in order to provide this care.
The question that has been asked is 'Is it right to profit from the care of vulnerable children?'. The sensible answer is that we know that if a business is to be successful, it has to be profitable. But is this a sensible answer to care? I am sure David Cameron and his Tory colleagues would love to break down the perceived damaged and broken care system in order to profit from their private interests in private Health and Social Care issues. So I am glad that this is now being challenged.
It is important that when children have been found a place to live that they are invested in, achieve the permanence that we all enjoy. That at the first fall, they are not rejected because the behaviour will cost too much money. That time, boundaries and care is going to be provided to break down the perceived image that children in care are worthless and all criminals. Or that deep down breaking the image that they are bad and naughty and that's why they are in care.
However, I have been able to visit a variety of residential homes that have been developed out of 'City funding' and the care and detail to the care that is provided has been outstanding. Starting with the ethos of the home and its workers to the commitment going above and beyond what is expected. On the down side I have also seen homes where proft has come at the expense of the young person and one I could not leave any child in. The difference is massive, as is the impact upon the young person and their outcomes in life and why this question is so important.
It is not just Residential homes of course that make money from caring for children – Fostering agencies also profit as exposed by Children as Core Assetts. Although Children as Core Assetts goes further implying that Children are stolen in order to help certain individuals profit. I am sure a story that the Daily Telegraph and Christopher Booker would love to write!
The real argument though should be the investment in an experienced workforce. Where workers leave consistently and frequently adding further pressure on caseloads and on the assessment process. Meaning support needed for families can not always be provided by and managed in the most appropriate way. The aim of ensuring children can remain within their family setting should be the main goal, reducing the need for external placements that drain the resources of local authorities further.
Business, profit and social work are terms that do not sit comfortably together more so when it comes to the care of the most vulnerable people in our society. However, where individaul effort and thought can use the resources available to make a much needed difference in a young persons life, I can not argue with this concept. However, I can and will when it has the reverse impact on such vulnerable lives. Profit should not come before safegurding and profit should not come before a safe and warm living environment where the physical and emotional needs of a child can be met.
I guess that means this time next year I wont be a millionaire then!
You, Me and Social Work
It sounds like a film title but sadly it is not. Instead it describes the constant questioning many social workers ask themselves over and over. Working in front line child protection will always raise tensions and frustrations, within ourselves and the social workers we work with inevitably leading to clashes of thought, personalities and outcomes. This is not social work as we might want it to be, although many people may recognise the tensions and dilemmas that are experienced in front line practise. As social work practise and theory changes the aim is to become more logical and systemic in the analysis, removing the clashes and tensions for a more logical thought process. Gathering data and information with the aim to process this more efficiently in order to understand what the concerns are.
But have the changes in social work improved the working conditions for social workers? sadly not. The competing challenges of meeting targets mixed in with overcoming societies social and economic difficulties matched with a combined reduction in services and not forgetting the aim of trying to do some direct work we all trained for. However, the strain of the changes is showing in many way different ways and worryingly it is the capacity to manage the amount of work that is being referred to Social Care for assessment. Strain and pressure on a fragile service that remains high risk for the vulnerable children that need safeguarding and also a service vulnerable to a Government that would be happy to shut it down.
For me and social work this year, I have had to learn and develop a resilience to these pressures. Rebuild my strength and resolve to focus on what I believe is good social work practise and promote positive social work intervention. Often meaning even when I have felt like walking away, I have had to pick myself up and up the social workers I work with. In order to give them the focus and reflection they need to remain focused on effecting positive change. Whilst watching others argue and buckle under the same pressures and for some this has been too much and they have felt the need to move on to different pastures.
Social work practise may have changed and for the better, but its time to be honest and admit that the pressure has not. The expectation that no mistakes will be made with high case loads, lack of resources remain. Furthermore the expectation that as a social worker you will work long hours often unpaid and unrewarded will be a standard expectation and if you don't do this you will be challenged and criticised for not meeting the expectations put on you. So how can you enjoy positive work with families and children when the one thing you need is time is not available. When even if you find the time and space you need, the ability to reflect and research the information you are given is not there because the pressure the service is under means you have no manager, no supervision, no colleagues to explore ideas with.
This might be what the Government wants, waiting for another major failure to attack and destroy social work. But for you, me and social work we all need to continue to fight and improve the service we provide through better communication and learning from each other.
Like for many people this year has been a journey for me. I began so confident in the route that I had chosen to take because I knew where I wanted to be. However, like many journeys you do not always end up where you think you will. Worryingly this year I ended up becoming lost on my route losing the passion and strength required to be the best social worker I could be. I guess if I am honest change never sits well with me anyway, yet this time last year I was excited by the thought of change and where it could take me. Once again it is Christmas and I am again faced with the thought of making another change and for the first time this year I am feeling positive about myself and again excited about social work and where I might end up.
"is this a fact or are you just saying this confidently" is a phrase I have heard a lot this year and sometimes my answer has been I do not know. However, working in a new environment has helped develop my practise, supervision and reflection. I have learnt for some social workers that this has been difficult to understand wanting and needing guidance on every step of case progression. But I have learnt that although I can do this, it is not the social worker I want to be. It has reinforced in my heart the type of social work I enjoy practising and delivering and when given the chance to do this I have seen how positive an impact this has had on my social workers.
The current theme maybe that social workers are not able to achieve goals because of an over optimism in the ability of parents to make changes. Yet outcomes remain a key focus of social work practise and change is part of this. Mr Gove may feel better social work education is needed, but having experienced this year I would argue that education on its own will not be the solution to improving social work. Instead recognising that social work learning never stops and that by maintaining links with the University's in order to manage continuing professional development along with good workplace one to one supervision and peer supervision.
So again I am faced with change and the fear of failing but instead this time I am going to stick to what I enjoy. I am going to continue to challenge practise and develop my social workers practise, because what I want to achieve is a positive outcome for children and their families. recognising that there will be many paths I can take but I take strength from this year and what I have learnt and will use this to keep me focused on my new social work journey. Remembering not to take the change for granted but again to start enjoying social work wherever I may be.
Peas in a Pod
Like many other social workers I have waited patiently to see what changes may come from the numerous serious case reviews that have been in the press over the past five years. The Munro Review challenged the heart of current social work practise and challenged the Government and local Authoritys to make those changes so deseparetly needed.
However for a long period of time there was almost a stale mate in whether these changes could be made. Can social workers go about their profession with the experience and competence needed to deliever a service that will safeguard children.
Slowly, and very slowly even social workers wanted a change in their practise. Long hours, poor computer systems, poor supervision with limited budgets and change being evidenced slowly was a not an inspiring career to be in, with many social workers looking for career changes.
Sadly though all of the talking and wanting change the only real change that came was that of the image of social work further damaged from the media pushing for change and the number of children being failed by ALL services.
So it is easy to see why it is not the process that need to change but the quality of social work instead, and promoting a positive image of social work. Supervision has always been the forum in which social work practise has been able to be discussed between a manager and the social worker; where the fears and theory's can be tested, either formally or informally. This has been developed in to a reflective practise supervision allowing one persons knowledge to be shared into a teams knowledge. Ensuring that the issues within family's are known by all workers giving the family a larger pool of social workers to talk with. It also means that the experience and knowledge of all social workers can be shared helping develop the experience of all of the workers within the Pod/team.
But despite all the changes, and the change of thinking within social work there is no escape from the long hours, the pressure of ensuring safeguards are in place, the fear of 'have I done enough?' never goes. The dream of having a low case load so that more direct work can be completed with the family remains a dream.
There are no escapes from the hardships in which the communities we live and work in continue to become worrying with housing, low incomes unemployment bringing more domestic abuse, more substance misuse.
Group or Pod Supervision enables workers to hear and learn about families that live within these communities and enables pictures to be gained of the impact each family may have upon each other. Enabling the social workers to explore through their practise how they can make effective changes by understanding the communities in which they work in.
Having made a change to this type of supervision I have enjoyed the change in supervision style and enjoyed exploring the wider support network that may be already available to the families. Although this has been a small change in practise and one of many that has been required, I have seen a positive change in how a team can support each other. Visits becoming more focused and consistent within the team, families become more relaxed with the workers that visit.
Although social work practise does still require further changes, these should not be done in isolation of our partner agency's to ensure that safeguarding does remain the responsibility of all agency's not just social work.
Only one argument!
Sometimes in this job you have a week that is like no other you have experienced before and for me this is an important subtle reminder that you can never make any assumptions in social work. It is also a gentle reminder that life is precious and should be treated with respect, and maybe I am growing softer with age – as this week I feel like I have been left with a hole in my heart.
Cases of domestic violence still remain very common in the work that we do, the impact this has on the children is incredibly damaging and in the worse case be life changing. Especially, if the worse case scenario happens and one of the parents is killed by the other leaving the children without their parents and no understanding why or how this could happen. Even at the lower end of domestic abuse the impact on the child\ren is still significant with often multiple home moves to avoid violent adults, school changes, emotional harm from hearing or witnessing Domestic abuse, learning behaviour that is not acceptable, physical harm.
Domestic violence is defined as
"Any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality."
However, in order to support this Local Authorities hold a 'MARAC' (Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference). Which is as it sounds a commitment of all the agency's to create a risk assessment and plan to safeguard the most vulnerable women subjected to domestic violence. A meeting that lists the horrors committed and left me truly speechless and concerned by the levels of domestic violence that still takes place on a very regular occurrence.
This article shows that the levels of domestic violence is falling and why are we not celebrating this news? because like me it questions whether as a society whether we have a grip of domestic violence, that many of the stereotypes still exists looking at the history of the victim to look at reasons why they may have been attacked or could be blamed for the attack. Or more importantly because domestic violence is more commonly known that the victims involved keep quiet fearing that they will be punished for their abuse or denying the impact upon themselves.
It is positive to hear that prosecution rates are increasing and maybe because some areas are developing their multi agency approach to include opening special courts to ensure that protection is provided to the victim and alleged perpetrator. Domestic violence is not just a local problem but a global problem and can affect any family at any time and only needs to happen once for the damage to be final and tragic.
So for me this week helping one family put their lives together after their loss has been a hard challenge, both emotionally as a parent but also making the assessment of risk and keeping the child at the centre of any plans. Whilst also sensitively working with a family who are grieving at their loss, without wanting to intrude any more than necessary during an emotional time for everyone.
So if you need help and advice about Domestic violence visit the National Domestic Violence Helpline for information and guidance.
For me the issue of Domestic Violence needs to remain at the top of priorities for all professionals and should never be accepted or brushed under the carpet. Although the numbers of prosecutions are rising so are the numbers of incidents with many never being reported or recorded. With services being cut and housing issues rising, this further makes this situation difficult for many victims to report their concerns. As professionals we need to continue to work together in a multi agency approach and listen to concerns raised during our assessments even if at a very low level of concern to protect from this escalating further.


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The thyroid organ generates hormones that regulate a variety of functions in the body, including energy expenditure. The molecule D3 can inactivate thyroid hormones; however, D3 is typically found in only a few postnatal tissues, although its expression is reactivated in the liver and skeletal muscle of critically ill patients. In a new study, Stephen Huang and his colleagues at the Harvard Institutes of Medicine, Boston, have reported that a state of hypoxia (that is, low oxygen levels) can induce expression of D3 and lead to local inactivation of the thyroid hormone T3.
D3 production was induced following exposure of cultured cells from various species and organs to either hypoxic conditions or chemicals that altered the cellular chemistry to mimic hypoxia. Mechanistically, expression of the gene responsible for the generation of D3 protein was found to be regulated by a protein known as HIF-1. Functionally, inhibition of D3 activity in cultured cells resulted in increased energy expenditure. Finally, the clinical relevance of these data was highlighted by the observation that in a rat model of hypertrophic heart failure a disease that is associated with hypoxia in the heart muscle D3 was induced at the site of hypoxia, causing a localized reduction in T3 levels.
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Re: What would have improved Voyager?
Personally, I think the best thing that could have improved VOY was for the series to come much later, probably just as DS9 was wrapping up, and to be in first-run syndication rather than on UPN.
But things that I would have done differently:
1. The ship wouldn't be in the Delta Quadrant but in a very distant part of the Alpha Quadrant so far from Federation space that you really get the same effect of it being the only ship out there. The crew wouldn't be trying to get home, but they would get homesick now and then. There would be Klingon and Romulan ships in the region too, but only one of each with reoccuring characters.
2. The XO would have been a woman, and yes, I would have cast a young voluptuous type in the role as simply a physical counterpart to Janeway in the same way Riker was so taller and younger than Picard.
3. No Maquis. It would have been an all-Starfleet crew from the very beginning. There would be occasional conflicts between characters though.
4. No Borg. I know UPN loves 'em, but the idea that a single Intrepid-class ship can do what 40 starships couldn't just strikes me as funny...
5. No forgettable aliens of the week. There would only be about four or five alien races in the region of space the
would encounter on a regular basis. Any other alien races would be Human, Vulcan, Andorian, etc. Let the major conflict be about a new hostile alien race coming in to take over the entire region and the
organizing a reluctant interplanetary coalition to stop them.
6. No Neelix. No Kes. No Seven-of-Nine (the aforementioned female XO would serve as the show's reguired sex object).
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In so many ways, Purdue alumnus Arthur Levin (CE'39) has always kept his eye on the future. His innovative vision is evident in the thousands of buildings he designed over the span of his long distinguished career. If you've ever seen a building hanging off the hills in southern California, chances are it is an Arthur Levin design or was inspired by his work. In fact, Levin literally wrote the book on hillside building, design and construction.
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Having come to Purdue from Glen Ellyn, IL., Wallrodt understands the extra expenses out-of-state-students must bear. So when he decided to fund student scholarships, he insisted they go to students like he once was - an engineering undergraduate from Illinois.
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Mary Helmick (BSME '86) has always been fascinated by the way things work, so when it came time to choose a college major, she was drawn to mechanical engineering. The hands-on nature of the discipline appealed to her, and Purdue was a good choice based on its reputation and an environment that supported women in engineering, Helmick recalls.
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FINE hair is not uncommon among small children, especially those who were born with primarily vellus hair on the scalp. Fine hair, in and of its self, presents no real problems with hair care for kids. (At really young ages, the shampoo and bath used is extremely gentle anyway.) Cutting the hair, though can present issues, particularly combined with other features of the hair.
FINE & STRAIGHT hair needs to be cut in more blunt styles. Not only will layering the hair make it look thin and wispy, but it will make it easier to become frizzy and unkempt during normal toddler activity. Kids with FINE & STRAIGHT hair generally rely on clips and barrettes for holding the hair rather than ponytail bands, since these often slide right out. Use accessories with rubberized grips to get more secure hold. For little boys, FINE & STRAIGHT hair means that the bowl-cut styles or styles with minimal tapering are well-suited.
FINE & CURLY hair may need some layering to prevent bushy, triangle-head looks, but keep the layering shallow. Furthermore, make sure you use a light-formula detangling spray after shampooing or whenever you need to comb through the hair. FINE & CURLY hair is sometimes prone to tangle especially if the child is very active and the curled areas of the hair strand can be weak points which will break more easily. (Just remember to use something light enough that it wont weigh the hair down too much.) Dont use a bristled brush, but rather a wide-tined vent brush to separate the curls or a wide-tooth comb to remove snags. For little boys, the FINE & CURLY hair often means a
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MEDIUM & THIN hair, regardless of CURL or STRAIGHTNESS, needs to be restricted to shallow layering when layering is needed. Steep layering or cutting the hair too short, can mean that the hair looks even thinner on the scalp.
MEDIUM & THICK hair is often the most wished-for hair type combination. This hair can take layering (especially when MEDIUM & CURLY) and blunt styles (for MEDIUM & STRAIGHT), and usually has a lot of body. Just remember that kids with very THICK hair can often be uncomfortable with long hair because of the heat that is retained by the hair. If you feel that long hair is a must for your child with MEDIUM & THICK hair, consider styles that can be pulled back off the neck and out of the face.
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"I'm running for re-election; I expect to be speaker," said Mr. Boehner, speaking in San Antonio to the Texas Tribune and the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
The Ohio Republican just won his primary last week, easily seeing off a tea party-backed challenger, though there are some Republicans within Congress who have said they would like to see the party have new leadership.
Mr. Boehner, though, said he has good relationships with both fellow Republicans and Democrats in the House.
In a 35-minute chat with Texas Tribune Editor in Chief Evan Smith, Mr. Boehner said he does still want to get an immigration bill done but repeated his insistence that President Obama make some form of overture to prove to House Republicans he would enforce any law Congress passes.
Mr. Boehner also delved slightly into the policy specifics on immigration, saying that any pathway to citizenship for current illegal immigrants would have to be okay with legal immigrants who suffered through the process correctly.
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At least for now (although a statewide referendum may be pending), Arizona governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, has succeeded in her efforts to implement a key part of Obamacare in her state. Brewer has very aggressively — and entirely voluntarily — spearheaded the charge to implement Obamacare's massive Medicaid expansion on her watch. She now claims, however, that she's not really implementing Obamacare — or at least not any significant portion of it. In a recent interview reported by the Associated Press, Brewer said, "This business that this is Obamacare is a little bit interesting." She added, "It is a very, very, very tiny portion of the Obama health care."
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that what Brewer calls a "very, very, very tiny portion" of the health care overhaul will result in an estimated 11 million new people being dumped into Medicaid under Obamacare, where they'll receive subpar care at taxpayer expense. Of the net 30 million that the CBO projects will become newly insured under Obamacare, those dumped into Medicaid will account for more than a third. (The CBO projects that, even after ten years of Obamacare, another 30 million people will remain uninsured.) Some of these 11 million people have employer-sponsored insurance today, but the CBO projects that roughly 4 million people will lose such coverage under Obamacare.
Brewer was under absolutely no legal obligation to implement this key aspect of Obamacare. As A.P. writes, "Brewer was an early critic of [Obamacare] and among a group of governors who lost the Supreme Court case that fought it, so it was a surprise when she announced she supported [its] Medicaid expansion." In fact, it was the Obamacare Supreme Court case that gave Brewer and her state the choice to opt out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion. The Court struck down the Obamacare provision that threatened states with the loss of their existing Medicaid funding if they refused to implement the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.
So Brewer sued and won — at least on this point. But instead of subsequently working to repeal Obamacare, she has instead worked to implement it. She fought the Republican-controlled state legislature and succeeded in converting a few Republicans to her — and the Democrat's — side. Rather unrepentantly, she now says, "I've led the charge from Arizona to oppose it [Obamacare] — sued, we lost, they won, it's the law of the land."
The CBO projects that Obamacare's Medicaid expansion will cost federal taxpayers about $750 billion over the next decade (2014 to 2023).
At the other end of the spectrum of Republican gubernatorial leadership, late last night, Maine governor Paul LePage vetoed an effort by both houses of the Maine legislature to implement Obamacare's Medicaid expansion in the Pine Tree State.
Arizona governor Jan Brewer endorsed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney this morning on NBC's Meet the Press.
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Drudge has a story about Obama getting off of Air Force One in Arizona, greeting Republican governor Jan Brewer, and immediately giving her a piece of his mind. Evidently our president did not appreciate something Brewer wrote about him. According to the pool report, they had a testy exchange from which the president walked away as Brewer was still speaking.
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Amid the controversy arising from the federal district court's decision to strike down portions of Arizona's Senate Bill 1070, one must keep in mind the fact that the case is at its most preliminary stage.
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Obama administration sources tell ABC News that Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its immigration law, likely next week.
Obama administration sources tell ABC News that Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its immigration law, likely next week.
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Now a senior administration official tells CBS News that the federal government will indeed formally challenge the law when Justice Department lawyers are finished building the case. The official said Justice is still working on building the case.
Now a senior administration official tells CBS News that the federal government will indeed formally challenge the law when Justice Department lawyers are finished building the case. The official said Justice is still working on building the case.
Imagining this conversation is much more fun if you imagine Jan Brewer as the real-life embodiment of Chris Buckley's "Supreme Courtship" heroine, Pepper Cartwright. A fiesty, Texan TV judge who is out of her element but never out of her depth in Washington, D.C., Pepper's the kind of woman who would say something, well, exactly like this:
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For some NFL scouts, the curiosity level surrounding Iowa safety Bob Sanders at the annual predraft combine in Indianapolis had mushroomed into an obsession, with talent evaluators admittedly anxious for another chance to eyeball a superb college performer deemed by many as too small but also regarded as too good to ignore.
Nicknamed the "Hit Man" in college, a testimony to the train wreck mentality Sanders fostered every week as he roamed the Hawkeyes' secondary, there remained more than ...
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Actress Rupa Ganguly inaugurated a street play on bravery on the J.D. Birla Institute's campus. Students enacted the play across the city.
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BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - Officers with the Blount County Sheriff's Office arrested a Maryville man after executed a search warrant on Tuesday.
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