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To be or not to be? Did Hamlet have the Mental Capacity to make that decision?

If the Mental Capacity Act was law in Denmark in the fourteen hundred’s would poor Hamlet have been able to make the decision, to be or not to be? Let’s explore the...

Unique!?

Recently, when teaching the first year BA students where Iwork I’d gone off topic….. this never comes as a surprise. And I asked the students, “What is the unique contribution that social...

How to start your day!

Start right! we are going to be productive throughout the day how we start our day is crucial in setting ourselves up with the right frame of mind. Too simple? Well, neuroscience...

Forming our views; Rishi, social workers, and primates.

In the caring professions our experiences are the cornerstone of our practice, setting our moral compass and future decision-making processes (heuristics). Despite each individual experience being important our brains are designed to...

Work smarter, not harder

Work Smarter Not Harder Organisation skills and productivity Firstly, in talking about and exploring organisation skills and productivity, and self care and its impact on productivity, my intention is not for...

Liam Neeson, ethnicity, and oppression

Liam Neeson is in the press today (Tuesday 5th February 2019). You may have seen that he has told a reporter that during a difficult time in his life he had walked...

Part of the problem or part of the solution…..?

When I was a practitioner and then a social work manager I was fond, when times were difficult, of asking myself, “Do I want to be part of the problem or part...

In consideration of sleep….

In a way what I’m about to write is more a book review because everything I’m going to point you to are things that struck me while reading Matthew Walker’s exceptional book ‘Why...

Skills – Negotiation

In the repertoire of social work skills I think there is nothing more crucial than negotiation. That might be negotiation with the service user themselves around what you can realistically do, or...

Culture change or climate change

Charles Handy author of landmark bestseller Understanding Organisations says ‘many of the ills of organisations stem from imposing an inappropriate structure on a particular culture, or from expecting a particular culture to...