Transcript Age and social work in a time of uncertainty

Age and Social Work in a time of
Uncertainty
Simon Biggs
[email protected]
[email protected]
CCETSW Times
• Aug.1985 – Oct. 1989
Social Work Education
Adviser: Mental Health, Inteprofessionality,
Ageing
• Oct.1989 – Oct. 1993
Coordinator of U.K.
Programme: Community Care
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• Oct.1993 – Aug. 1994
Head of Development
Department
Photographic Evidence
Confronting Ageing
Publications
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1986 The Registered Homes Act 1984: Staff Training Issues, CCETSW Paper
24, p 27.
1988 Older People: A Resource Directory for Trainers CCETSW, Pp 96. (with
Hewerdine CW )
1989 Avoidable Risk: Supervision and Management in Child Care Abuse
Cases. Trigger Video, CCETSW (with Ash E, And Mayhew R)
1989 Confronting Ageing: A Group Work Manual for Helping Professionals.
CCETSW, Pp 88.
1989 Residential Social Work: Models of Good Practice, CCETSW, Pp 20.
1989 Interprofessional Collaboration. CCETSW
1990-1994 Community Care Database Bulletin (Quarterly).), CCETSW,
approx Pp 100 per issue. (With Catlin S)
1991 Assessment, Case Management and Inspection: A Practice Teaching
Curriculum, CCETSW, P p 32. (with Weinstein J )
Community Care Act
• Compared to the Children Act
• A mechanism for ideological system
transformation rather than evidence based
change
• From a New role for social work to The role
for social work
• Consumer/User Involvement
• CSP
Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher
• 28th Nov 1990
John Major
• 28th Nov 1990
• May 2nd 1997
From 1985- 1994
• Community Social Work
• Public and NGO
effectiveness &
innovation
• Social work as a
therapeutic enterprise
• Social work as advocacy
• Critical theory on the
role of social work
• Case management
• Private sector economy
& innovation
• Monitoring and
managing
• Social work as risk
reduction
• Critical theory and the
rolled back state
Ambivalent CCETSW
• From (much misunderstood) tribune of social
work and the disadvantaged
• To implementing the Tory line
• The shock absorber
• Everybody’s relative ....But nobody’s baby
Turning Points
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Supping with the Department
It ain’t going away
From grudging colleague to quality inspector
To scapegoat ‘race commissars’ and the Daily
Mail and ‘our social workers’.