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Personality disorder: the limits to intervention
- Author:
- BURTON A.
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 4(4), 1990, pp.221-228.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the theoretical knowledge about personality disorder; reports a case history and two different social work approaches to the client's problems.
Dementia and guardianship
- Author:
- BURTON A.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 22.9.88, 1988, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Guardianship can prove effective in sustaining a dementia sufferer in the community. Describes a successful case history and the multidisciplinary approach vital to its operation.
The art of the possible in children's services: a manifesto for innovation
- Author:
- BURTON Chris
- Publisher:
- Coram
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This report includes a summary of findings from a survey in 2021 which asked local authority, voluntary and independent agencies in England about the actions needed to facilitate change and innovation in children's service. 64% of organisations surveyed said they were using new technology in their service. Key factors in making change possible identified by the survey included: staff capacity, innovative organisational culture, collaboration with others, digital capability and a willingness to take risks. The report includes two case studies. One is about the Making the Change Service, East Riding Of Yorkshire Council a trauma informed dedicated multi-agency support service to provide those at risk with somewhere to turn to. The second features Frontline's Innovation Programme and The Thrive App, which aim to support case management and staff wellbeing, providing an accessible structure for social workers to manage and track their cases, reflect on their wellbeing and manage work-related stresses. Recommendations include: sharing knowledge across sectors, and encouraging services to use new technologies that would enhance their services. The report concludes with an eight point vision for children's social care that includes safety, early help and prevention, partnership working, valued staff, child-centred model, embracing technology, and funding. (Edited publisher abstract)
What's wrong with CQC? A proposal to reform the regulation of social care
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Publisher:
- Centre for Welfare Reform
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 24
- Place of publication:
- Sheffield
This essay focuses on the regulation and inspection of social care in England, alleging that the current system is doing more harm than good. The author contends that the Care Quality Commission is not effective or responsive; it doesn’t understand how social care works; it rarely uncovers neglect and abuse, and it responds too slowly when they are brought to its attention; its judgements are flawed and its ratings inaccurate and unhelpful; its inspections reports are poorly written and constructed; it costs much more than it should and imposes vast unnecessary costs on social care providers; it dominates and distorts the whole social care sector, and the organisation is blinkered, risk averse, top heavy and hopelessly bureaucratic. The paper concludes by arguing that since social care is a local service, with care homes and care at home provided and organised for neighbourhoods, inspection should also be organised locally and inspectors should be responsive, responsible and accountable to local communities. This would be more effective; it would give the public direct access to and relationship with the inspector of their care; it would free users, teams and managers to collaborate in creating their sort of care together, and it would cost less. (Edited publisher abstract)
Leading good care: the task, heart and art of managing social care
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 208
- Place of publication:
- London
To lead good care, social care managers must have professional and personal authority: a clear understanding of the core task and the emotional challenges of care, and the imagination to create an organisation or team dedicated to meeting people's needs. This guide gives managers the understanding of systems of care and aims to inspire them to take the lead. Using the stories of four managers leading four different care services, the author explains the key issues and shows how, by focusing on the core task and taking the authority to lead, managers can transform social care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Consultancy to a care home: the influences of family and gender roles, and of race and colonialism
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 27(4), 2013, pp.407-421.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper is an account and critical analysis of the psychodynamic and systemic consultancy that the author provided to a care home (and the voluntary organisation running it) over a period of about 16 months. In addition two emergent, linked themes are identified and discussed: family and gender roles in care homes, and racism and colonialism. Care homes are of course part of the society in which they exist and of which they are a product. This means that all the overt and covert psychological and social pressures, defences and trends that occur in the wider society, for individuals, families, groups and communities are also to be found in care homes and in the organisations that run them. They are not isolated from these forces, indeed, it is argued in this paper, the forces are intensified in the ‘hot house’ environment of a care home and, if ignored, avoided and denied, result in the exploitation, abuse and neglect of both staff and residents. (Publisher abstract)
Behind the facade, beneath the surface: where registered managers need to look and what they need to know
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 6(2), 2012, pp.63-68.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The manager of a care home is expected to build and maintain an acceptable facade of ‘service delivery’ that complies with regulatory standards. However, the conditions in which truly caring relationships and a sense of community and homeliness can flourish are the product of social and emotional, ethical and intellectual analysis, and leadership at a much deeper and more complex level. The important but nevertheless secondary issues of policy and procedure, ‘quality’, standards, and regulation have taken precedence over the ‘primary task’ (caring and homeliness) that is the sole legitimate purpose of any care home. As the leader of the home, the registered manager has to be exceptionally clear sighted and determined. She or he must stick to the primary task and resist the pressure to gratify external demands at the expense of attending to the needs of residents. When the home is performing the primary task, the facade will no longer be false, and valid external expectations will be honestly met. The training and professional accreditation of care home managers must focus on understanding and leading the primary task at its deepest and most complex level. (Publisher abstract)
Adding to the team
- Author:
- BURTON Wendy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 84(1), January 2011, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
In Lincolnshire, the role of assistant practitioner-parenting has been established to provide early and timely support for pregnant women and vulnerable families with young children. The aim of the role is to promote physical, emotional and mental well-being and to provide a package of support as directed by the health visitor. This article describes the work undertaken and reports on initial feedback and evaluation of the role. Evaluation was through testimony from parents, health visitors and partner agencies. The article provides examples from the feedback, and reports that the role has succeeded in its primary objective and has proved to be an innovative and effective addition to health visiting teams in Lincolnshire Community Health Services.
Supporting adolescents who have a sibling with a life-threatening illness: an exploratory study
- Author:
- BURTON Marcia
- Journal article citation:
- Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 10(4), December 2010, pp.316-321.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Semi-structured interviews were conducted, face-to-face, with 8 practitioners (6 female, 2 male, aged 27 to 74 years) who worked with young people whose siblings have a life-threatening illness in England and Wales. Data were analysed using grounded theory. Four main themes were explored: the emotional impact of ill children on teenage siblings; the emotional impact on professionals working with those young people; communication within therapeutic relationships with professionals and within families; and the need for emotional support for professionals as well as the families they work with. The author quotes many of the participants own words as part of this qualitative research. The provision of family is seen to be important along with individual therapeutic support to ease the stress for young people, other family members and professionals. Peer group support is highlighted as key. The author calls for organisations working with families experiencing life-threatening illness to provide high quality support to their staff, as well as the families they work with.
'Call it personalisation if you like': the realities and dilemmas of organising care in a small rural community
- Author:
- BURTON John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 24(3), September 2010, pp.301-313.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The author of this article questions the thinking behind the personalisation agenda and discusses the difficulties of reconciling the national and local government version of personalisation with the community's ideas and expectations of personal care. The article describes and analyses the process of trying to establish Beechfield Community Care, an independent, community-owned and run organisation to provide support and care for older people in a rural community, in the context of the proposed closure of a local authority care home in the West Country. The author argues that the policy context for personalisation is one of increasing regulation, standards, audit and procedures, leading to the bureaucratisation of care, formulation of care practice, and flight from relationship-based care.