Is it really such a bad thing that there aren’t “enough” social workers? After all, as Parkinson’s Law of Social Work states that social problems increase to occupy the total number of social workers available to deal with them Yes, that was me being facetious, but the point remains that we don’t need huge numbers of social

Social Media Affairs has just released a report looking at the political social media landscape in the UK (with, ahem, myself being one of the four people contributing introductory remarks about politics and social media). Any report like this has to deal with all sorts of issues of definition and categorisation but there are some striking

Looks like another stunning victory for social services. As ever, I say that if the problem was merely that social workers were untrained/over-worked/retarded or whatever, these horrors stories would occur pretty much at random. Ditto, with cases of social workers persecuting the innocent. On the contrary, the figures only tilt one way. Social workers have totally assimilated the cultural Marxist ...

Tony Blair promised hope for the "forgotten people" of the Aylesbury estate. Thirteen years on, and in the week of the Government's social equality report, they are still waiting.

A quite astonishing finding. If you define Scandinavian social democracy as being social justice, when you go and measure social justice you find that the Scandinavian countries are socially just. Who would have thought that such an outcome would be possible?

Commission for Social Care Inspection - Report on Performance Indicators for Adult social care derived from various government statistical agencies, notably NHS Information Centre, NHS Unify Team in Leeds, National Drug Treatment Monitoring Service. The report covers data for each of the 150 councils with responsibilities for adult social care, and reviews progress in performance over the last 10 ...

A task force set up to investigate the state of social work in Britain after the murder of Baby P under the very noses of social workers has come up with some wholly predictable and pointless recommendations. Basically, they suggest more pay and higher status for social workers. Yes, really. The reason Baby P wasn't helped, apparently, is that social workers - as well as, presumably, the poli...

Social factors - rather than genetics - are to blame for huge variations in ill health and life expectancy around the world, a report concludes.

Alan Johnson MP, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, said in response to today's report on anti-social behaviour from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC): “This report tells a familiar story on anti-social behaviour but with greater depth and clarity than ever before. It is a particularly important message as the government plan cuts to police budgets which are bound...

Uncertainty reigns. Or at least when it comes to today's Dilnot Report into social care it does. We largely know what measures will be contained within its pages: a higher threshhold for council-funded care, but a cap (of around £35,000) on how much individuals ought to be liable for. What's less clear is how the government will respond. Far from welcoming the report wholeheartedly ...