Social Worker Sharing

This blog is going to be a combination of two topics that I feel link which are Ageism and the new proposed bill linked to assisted dying. I went on a session recently about ageism and it got me thinking even more about we way we think about people in our society. As I have explained previously I work in an Older People's team so it is something that I am mindful of on a regular basis but there are a lot of comments that get made in day to day life to people of all ages. I am sure we have all heard comments like “act your age, not your shoe size” or “should you be doing that at your age”. I think if someone was making similar comments about any of the other protected characteristics under the Equality Act then it would not be acceptable but people seem to think that saying it about age is okay because it is so engrained into society that people see it as banter instead. That is where thinking about it in relation to other characteristics such as sexuality makes people feel un...

  Safeguarding is something that underpins all Social Work practice regardless of what area of Social Work you are in. It is drilled into you throughout your studies and although I don’t work in children’s services, I still know exactly which section of which law it is. There are a million different ways we safeguard the people we support. It can be higher level at risk of harm or neglect, or it may be that they need money for heating so that they can survive. It could be that their child takes £200 every time they visit and the difficulties in situations like this is that the person may be happy with that and if they have the capacity to decide that then it is not up to up to say otherwise. I have heard a lot of examples of situations where it is financial, but the person is happy with that, I have experienced these types of safeguarding situations myself. I have been fortunate that because I am still new to this I have yet to experience a high-level safeguarding situation whi...