by daveniven | Aug 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
What is going on? Over a quarter of authorities in England are now deemed inadequate in some aspects of social services. Today Medway and Northampton join the list. Given the recruitment crises to child care social work where so many departments are boosted by short...
by daveniven | Aug 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
The story of the person who goes into the hospital with a broken leg is in great pain and he’s really uncomfortable when he’s allocated a bed on the ward. The nurse reassures him by pointing at the man in the next bed saying “at least be thankful...
by daveniven | Aug 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
I must be the most fortunate man in the world, in the last week I’ve been left $4.5 million in a will, had £400,000 left by a Nigerian cooperation, been informed of a $10.7 million trust fund which can be picked up in the United States and been blessed by a...
by daveniven | Aug 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
I am a trustee of a charity called The Green House (formally the Avon Sexual Abuse Centre) which provides psychotherapeutic counselling for victims of sexual abuse both children, women and men.Our children’s service has not one penny of statutory funding and...
by daveniven | Aug 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I read last week of another care home scandal. This one was in Nottinghamshire in Autumn Grange, 11 people were arrested on suspicion of the manslaughter of an 86 year old resident and although the care home was closed soon after the resident’s death it still...
by daveniven | Aug 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
There are parts of the legal process that clearly are not as efficient and effective as they could be. The recent case of a Barrister accusing a child of being a sexual predator and the Judge agreeing with him showed this clearly. In the UK we have an adversarial...
