Vic
@vic15.bsky.social
Forensic Social Worker based in London. Interested in mental health/social care/social work and non-work related random things.
And cats (all animals really but especially cats)
And cats (all animals really but especially cats)
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This @TheIFS analysis of the 2025/26 local government finance settlement calculates it’s a 6.4% real terms increase. While substantial, it will still be a stretch to fund extra #socialcare costs, driven especially by the NICs increases for care providers. ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs...
Response to the final English local government finance settlement | Institute for Fiscal Studies
2025–26 will continue the substantial above-inflation increases in funding for English councils, but their costs have also been outpacing inflation.
ifs.org.uk
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This @TheIFS analysis of the 2025/26 local government finance settlement calculates it’s a 6.4% real terms increase. While substantial, it will still be a stretch to fund extra #socialcare costs, driven especially by the NICs increases for care providers. ifs.org.uk/articles/ifs...
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I don't think it is any surprise that these are the charges which the police are "considering" - hard to see why they would have invesitgated otherwise as most clinical errors are civil cases. But consdiering is a long way from actually bringing charges.
Sussex police consider manslaughter charges over dozens of hospital deaths
Bereaved told police are looking into possible corporate and individual charges, after alleged negligence and cover-up
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February 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I don't think it is any surprise that these are the charges which the police are "considering" - hard to see why they would have invesitgated otherwise as most clinical errors are civil cases. But consdiering is a long way from actually bringing charges.
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Bought for £215k in Dec 2018
Following Kathleen’s subsequent move to a nursing home in 2021, aged 97, the flat was put up for sale in March 2021 by her daughter, Deborah Whale for £225,000. The price was gradually reduced until it was finally sold, over 3 years later, in July 2024 for £100,000
Following Kathleen’s subsequent move to a nursing home in 2021, aged 97, the flat was put up for sale in March 2021 by her daughter, Deborah Whale for £225,000. The price was gradually reduced until it was finally sold, over 3 years later, in July 2024 for £100,000
Buyer beware: An Essex retirement flat sold for less than half its purchase price— yet local house prices rose.
With charges and exits fees, is the system failing our elderly seeking a worry free lifestyle?
@oscarwoofs.bsky.social examines the retirement flat market
With charges and exits fees, is the system failing our elderly seeking a worry free lifestyle?
@oscarwoofs.bsky.social examines the retirement flat market
Retirement flats – a worry-free life or ‘buyer beware’?
Retirement flats offer community and ease, but rising service charges, exit fees, and depreciation could make them a risky investment
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Bought for £215k in Dec 2018
Following Kathleen’s subsequent move to a nursing home in 2021, aged 97, the flat was put up for sale in March 2021 by her daughter, Deborah Whale for £225,000. The price was gradually reduced until it was finally sold, over 3 years later, in July 2024 for £100,000
Following Kathleen’s subsequent move to a nursing home in 2021, aged 97, the flat was put up for sale in March 2021 by her daughter, Deborah Whale for £225,000. The price was gradually reduced until it was finally sold, over 3 years later, in July 2024 for £100,000
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You don’t need to be rude to get your point across.
As the Pink Floyd roadie said: “Good manners don't cost nothin', do they, eh?”
hbr.org/2025/01/rese...
As the Pink Floyd roadie said: “Good manners don't cost nothin', do they, eh?”
hbr.org/2025/01/rese...
Research: Incivility at Work Silences Everyone, But Especially Women
Incivility at work isn’t good for anyone. But while both men and women are less likely to speak up in uncivil environments, women are more likely to withhold their ideas due to concerns about gender b...
hbr.org
January 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
You don’t need to be rude to get your point across.
As the Pink Floyd roadie said: “Good manners don't cost nothin', do they, eh?”
hbr.org/2025/01/rese...
As the Pink Floyd roadie said: “Good manners don't cost nothin', do they, eh?”
hbr.org/2025/01/rese...
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Has any other democratic country pardoned violent criminals on this scale? There’s something almost medieval about it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump pardons give Jan 6 defendants nearly everything they wanted - BBC News
Some of the president's own team had signalled not all of those arrested over the Capitol riot would be released - until his order on Monday.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Has any other democratic country pardoned violent criminals on this scale? There’s something almost medieval about it.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Such a great prize & all you need to do is listen to the episode & post your reflection to be in with a chance of winning. The book is brilliant!
Have you listened to this week’s episode of The Relational Social Work Podcast? If you have you will know that there is a competition to win a copy of Katrin Bain and John Harris’ book, ‘Social Work, Parents and the Child Protection Process’ and a The Relational Social Work Podcast pin badge 💗
January 13, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Such a great prize & all you need to do is listen to the episode & post your reflection to be in with a chance of winning. The book is brilliant!
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Unfortunately, it seems an opportune moment to repost this story from last year.
NHSE accused of cutting action to protect staff from violence
A union has accused NHS England of trying to save money at the expense of reducing violence against healthcare staff, as several national initiatives face the axe.
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January 13, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Unfortunately, it seems an opportune moment to repost this story from last year.
open.substack.com/pub/vic15/p/... newsletter from yesterday - share if you find it useful. I publish most Sundays
Social Work Links and Learning #152
12 January 2025
open.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
open.substack.com/pub/vic15/p/... newsletter from yesterday - share if you find it useful. I publish most Sundays
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My new blog post
Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before.
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...
Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before.
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...
Anorexic teenager in 10-day induced coma for re-feeding: What next?
Doctors gave her a general anaesthetic, ventilated and sedated her, and fitted her with an NG tube, believing this to be in her best interests. She did not consent to any of this – there was …
openjusticecourtofprotection.org
December 15, 2024 at 9:30 PM
My new blog post
Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before.
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...
Would love to hear people's views on treating anorexia this way. It's not something I'd come across before.
openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2024/12/14/a...
Introducing my partner to a Prime cooking show which has just said ‘chop your spaghetti into little pieces’ and I think I’ve broken his Italian heart
December 15, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Introducing my partner to a Prime cooking show which has just said ‘chop your spaghetti into little pieces’ and I think I’ve broken his Italian heart
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important announcement: there is a new baby capybara at the San Antonio Zoo named Tupi. i would lay down my life for Tupi
December 15, 2024 at 1:39 AM
important announcement: there is a new baby capybara at the San Antonio Zoo named Tupi. i would lay down my life for Tupi
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Would you check out this job ad, who wouldn't want to work with Donald. If I wasn't at the other end of the country I'd be tempted. Imagine getting paid to swim, cycle, explore and chill.
Love @cchangescotland.bsky.social. This is like a Flourishing Lives job ad @sarasiobhan.bsky.social 🙌
Love @cchangescotland.bsky.social. This is like a Flourishing Lives job ad @sarasiobhan.bsky.social 🙌
🍃 Donald is recruiting for Personal Development Workers and a Housekeeper
✨ Be part of life changing work
📍 Scone, Perthshire
👇 Apply today
https://buff.ly/4ipZQyh
https://buff.ly/4g6S7DU
✨ Be part of life changing work
📍 Scone, Perthshire
👇 Apply today
https://buff.ly/4ipZQyh
https://buff.ly/4g6S7DU
December 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Would you check out this job ad, who wouldn't want to work with Donald. If I wasn't at the other end of the country I'd be tempted. Imagine getting paid to swim, cycle, explore and chill.
Love @cchangescotland.bsky.social. This is like a Flourishing Lives job ad @sarasiobhan.bsky.social 🙌
Love @cchangescotland.bsky.social. This is like a Flourishing Lives job ad @sarasiobhan.bsky.social 🙌
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2024's anti incumbency wave strikes again
Syrian state TV is now broadcasting just a single, still image.
It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.”
History.
#Syria 🇸🇾
It reads: “The great revolution has triumphed and the Assad regime has fallen.”
History.
#Syria 🇸🇾
December 8, 2024 at 9:29 AM
2024's anti incumbency wave strikes again
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Only two more weeks until all the single career women in New York go home to their parents and fall in love with a lumberjack widower who hasn't celebrated Christmas since the mother of his only child died.
December 4, 2024 at 8:11 PM
Only two more weeks until all the single career women in New York go home to their parents and fall in love with a lumberjack widower who hasn't celebrated Christmas since the mother of his only child died.
Currrently struggling with rail challenges to get back to London and doing my best at zen like ‘there’s nothing I can do to change the situation’ with intermittent success
December 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Currrently struggling with rail challenges to get back to London and doing my best at zen like ‘there’s nothing I can do to change the situation’ with intermittent success
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I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
'I quit to fight for my son': how the SEND crisis is wrecking women's careers
Four in 10 parents of children with special educational needs have stopped working, and mothers are hit the hardest
inews.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 3:41 PM
I wrote about the way the SEND crisis is quietly unpicking women's lives - destroying careers, dismantling relationships, damaging physical and mental health.
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
And all this goes on unacknowledged.
Long read for The i Paper:
inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
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New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
- 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food.
- 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected.
Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?
- 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food.
- 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected.
Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 PM
New figures from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation:
- 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food.
- 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected.
Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?
- 7 million families are going without essentials, including 5.4 million without enough food.
- 86% of those on Universal Credit, and 93% of those with UC deductions, are affected.
Overgenerous benefits, #Dispatches?
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Today we celebrate #IDPD2024 with the theme "Amplifying the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities for an Inclusive & Sustainable Future." Let’s build a world where leadership knows no barriers & disabled voices lead the way.
#LeadershipWithoutBarriers #AmplifyDisabilityLeadership #NoOneLeftBehind
#LeadershipWithoutBarriers #AmplifyDisabilityLeadership #NoOneLeftBehind
December 3, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Today we celebrate #IDPD2024 with the theme "Amplifying the Leadership of Persons with Disabilities for an Inclusive & Sustainable Future." Let’s build a world where leadership knows no barriers & disabled voices lead the way.
#LeadershipWithoutBarriers #AmplifyDisabilityLeadership #NoOneLeftBehind
#LeadershipWithoutBarriers #AmplifyDisabilityLeadership #NoOneLeftBehind
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Social Work Cats & Rocket Science book 2 available for pre order from online book shops now. Huge thanks to @sarasiobhan.bsky.social & School of Rock and Media for writing the forwards @robmitch92.bsky.social
The difficult second book.
Pre order available online
What’s your A-Z of practice?
#socialworkcatsandrocketscience
Pre order available online
What’s your A-Z of practice?
#socialworkcatsandrocketscience
December 3, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Social Work Cats & Rocket Science book 2 available for pre order from online book shops now. Huge thanks to @sarasiobhan.bsky.social & School of Rock and Media for writing the forwards @robmitch92.bsky.social
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Today marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the theme of which this year is 'Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future'. 1/ www.un.org/en/observanc... #IDPD24
International Day of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations
The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.
www.un.org
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Today marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the theme of which this year is 'Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future'. 1/ www.un.org/en/observanc... #IDPD24
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PODCAST: Moving the NHS from analogue to digital is one of the health secretary's top priorities. So what will it take?
Our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon discusses with Erik Mayer and Holly Krelle.
Listen now 🎧
https://buff.ly/3VgkreF
Our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon discusses with Erik Mayer and Holly Krelle.
Listen now 🎧
https://buff.ly/3VgkreF
Analogue to digital in the NHS: is the shift within reach? – with Holly Krelle and Erik Mayer
Episode 49. Moving the NHS from analogue to digital is one of the health secretary's priorities. So, what will it take?
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December 1, 2024 at 11:15 PM
PODCAST: Moving the NHS from analogue to digital is one of the health secretary's top priorities. So what will it take?
Our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon discusses with Erik Mayer and Holly Krelle.
Listen now 🎧
https://buff.ly/3VgkreF
Our Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon discusses with Erik Mayer and Holly Krelle.
Listen now 🎧
https://buff.ly/3VgkreF
So, a question I’m pondering in advance of a team development day this week. In the NHS (in England specifically) , (rather than LA) what is the role of directly employed social workers? I have some answers from my perspective but interested in views of others
December 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM
So, a question I’m pondering in advance of a team development day this week. In the NHS (in England specifically) , (rather than LA) what is the role of directly employed social workers? I have some answers from my perspective but interested in views of others
Submitted an abstract for a conference (not as sole author and with a lot of help from more experienced academics) and quite excited. Ended up booking flight to where conference is because I’ll go regardless of whether it is chosen
November 30, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Submitted an abstract for a conference (not as sole author and with a lot of help from more experienced academics) and quite excited. Ended up booking flight to where conference is because I’ll go regardless of whether it is chosen