Bryony Shannon
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Workforce
‘Workforce’ is another term that dominates the narrative of social care. So, let’s unpick this a…
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Purpose
The dictionary definition of ‘purpose’ is “the reason for which something is done or created or…
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‘Professional’ language
“Practitioners use language as a way of creating distance. Occasionally this may arise from lack of…
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Words that make me go hmmm: Patient
While ‘service user’, ‘customer’ and ‘client’ are still ubiquitously used to describe people’s relationship with social…
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Words that make us go hmmm: discharge
There are some words that automatically make me go hmmm, and several that really make me…
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Co-production: words that make me go hmmm…
Co-production is the word of the moment in local authorities, largely because the Care Quality Commission…
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Rights
“Quite simply we cannot hope to improve people’s health and wellbeing if we are not ensuring…
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Words that make me go hmmm: Needs
“Needs: the things you must have for a satisfactory life.” Cambridge dictionary [1] “Needs: a catalogue…
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Rewilding social care
“Nature has the power to heal itself and to heal us, if we let it. That’s…
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Transformation
“Within the world of social care, there has been much talk about the ‘transformation’ of adult…
Rewriting social care 