age and social work in a time of uncertainty simon biggs [email protected] [email protected]
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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 • • Oct.1993 – Aug. 1994 Head of Development
Department
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Photographic Evidence
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Confronting Ageing
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Publications• 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 )
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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
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Prime Ministers
Margaret Thatcher• 28th Nov 1990
John Major• 28th Nov 1990• May 2nd 1997
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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
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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
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Turning Points
• 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’.