Bryony Shannon

  • Community

    Community

    “Community is more than a simple matter of geography. It is about how people connect with…

  • Words that make me go hmmm: Independent

    Words that make me go hmmm: Independent

    “Adult Social Care aims to maximise people’s independence.” “The purpose of social care is to enable people to live…

  • Flourishing

    Flourishing

    “The goal of a reimagined system of care and support is to enable all humans to…

  • Words that make me go hmmm: Safe

    Words that make me go hmmm: Safe

    There are 416 references to ‘safe’ / ‘safety’ / ‘safeguarding’ in the Care Act 2014 statutory…

  • How to be human

    How to be human

    “We can talk about inclusion. We can talk about diversity. But what we really need to…

  • Human

    Human

    I talk and write a lot about seeing people as human beings, about being human, and…

  • Workforce

    Workforce

    ‘Workforce’ is another term that dominates the narrative of social care. So, let’s unpick this a…

  • Purpose

    Purpose

    The dictionary definition of ‘purpose’ is “the reason for which something is done or created or…

  • ‘Professional’ language

    ‘Professional’ language

    “Practitioners use language as a way of creating distance. Occasionally this may arise from lack of…

  • Words that make me go hmmm: Patient

    Words that make me go hmmm: Patient

    While ‘service user’, ‘customer’ and ‘client’ are still ubiquitously used to describe people’s relationship with social…