That was always the excuse but was the past about to catch up with him? You know the type their motto better to ask forgiveness than permission. Innovative and creative when it came to finding ways round the recruitment policies and financial procedures. Commanding great loyalty from their team, suspicion from their colleagues and grudging tolerance from senior management.
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13 Feb 2024 - 13:25
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08 Aug 2019 - 15:12
The feeling of ever present peril is one familiar to directors of
social services. A former boss once confided in me that when ever he
read about an abuse scandal he thought about a youth unit that he was
responsible for in his early senior management career. Nothing I could
ever put me finger on, he said, just a generally feeling of unease
about the way the place was run. Such that...
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23 May 2017 - 15:47
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What's in a name ?
Many in the health care world want to dump the term "patient". The progressive view is that "patient" is too passive a description in our consumer society where the modernising public sector is encouraged to adopt private sector ways and think of people as customers. Other parts of the public sector have "agonised" over language. In social services we...
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01 Oct 2016 - 16:48
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Living with dementia is not about some one with dementia, it's not about caring for someone with dementia it about living in a residential care home where everyone else has dementia. It's about having the room across the corridor from posh Rachael, who walks up and down all day in her underwear complaining she is,"starrrrving", in a very upper crust voice. It's about waking up in the...
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