Practice Development Lead
Adults Social Care Staffordshire County Council.
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The Romani & Traveller Social Work Association along with the amazing folk at Cheshire East, Chesire West & Chester changing DoLS practice through innovation #GRTHM24@DanAllen_SW@LiverpoolHopeUK@KaskoSanLtd
North’s first Traveller-led support group set up in Omagh.
The support group, which does not yet have a name, hopes to provide a unified, formalised voice for the Traveller community in and around the Omagh area.
Read more below: https://t.co/sy7HBJUppz
Imagine someone gets diagnosed with dementia, and looks to a well-known charity for support:
The charity: "with dementia you don't just die once. You die again, and again, and again"
Tone deaf and hugely stigmatizing, @alzheimerssoc
For our People Power initiative with @incontrolorg we’ve been talking with some great folks offering support in areas like media skills/public speaking, campaigning etc. Who else is great to help build skills and tactics to get the voices of people powerfully heard?
Social worker Sharon provided crucial emotional support to Joel during his mother’s terminal illness.
“Negative media portrayals frustrate me as social workers do so much more than people realise.” - Joel
#ChangeTheScript
💪 We’re driving forward a new research project, supported by the KPMG Foundation, about the experiences of kinship families from Black, Asian & minority ethnic communities in order to catalyse positive changes in its services & across the sector.
https://t.co/o7yfy0eb55
Trigger warning domestic violence. Thanks @FishMcFace for bringing this news report to my attention. Disabled people are more than twice as likely to subjected to domestic violence and abuse than non disabled people. Yet adult social care have the
https://t.co/PU90OYBOsV
This small piece of research is slowly making a difference. Public Health colleagues have been so supportive and shown genuine interest. Really hopeful for the future of improving the adult social care response to disabled people subjected to domestic violence and abuse.
Inspectors went to see what was happening at 8 o’clock in the evening and found most people with intellectual disabilities were either ready for bed or already in bed.
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