For cpd checkout Anthony Doerr’s treatment of ‘The Birds’, by Aristophanes ~ the-book-within-the-book ~ a tale of being in nephelokokkuyia (I just love saying this word out loud) or cloud-cockoo-land.

The bread and butter of antidiscriminatory and antioppressive practice is on trial ~ a product, in part, of the SWE silence and blind adherence to the Right Touch, Light Touch of a totally cloud-cockoo land abstracted reality of sectoral governance.

Is it, as Apuleius wrote, an era of ‘The Golden Ass’ in Social Work?

the CQC having courted choice must, as happened in 2010, set out its evaluation methodology for consultation ~ are they for example assuming that complexity arises not from a denial of simplicity and common sense but rather from how such ‘common sense’ simplicity is being organised?

the above definition shaped the 2010 consultation and was written not by the in-house CQC methodology team, rather it was commissioned from PA Consulting including help from the, then, outgoing former SofS for Communities and Local Government.

Brexit hearelds the demise of postmodernist thought and Continental Philosophy, and the rise of the machine model of AI, the creation of LLM as a replacement for social worker judgement, and Analytical Philosophy ~ where’s the consultation on this and how it will show up?

For cpd see Navigating Indeterminacy by Xin Wei Sha ~ it’s a 30min video setting out the narratives on the use of data and how it evolution.

Remember that at the BASW AGM in 2007 members, by show of hands, held a vote of no confidence in the use of the then in use information technology ~ the jargon is to ask whether the Enterprise Architecture designed for social work follows TOGAF and if it has been tested against either the Zachman Model or the Carnegie Mellon Model.

Xin Wei Sha examines the relationship between frequentist, bayesian and set-theory statistical information and urges caution ⚠️

Crucially, social workers are empowered under the provisions of the DPA to make sure any data held on their clients as data subjects is actually accurate.

The recent coverage of adult adhd/autism/disassociative conditions, given the diagnostic overlap between the conditions, must show up as they, the data subject, see it.

The misuse of the mental disorder codes may increase the spend allocated between primary and tertiary care ~ it may also cast individuals as being personality disordered when they are not. Serious, no?

Due to reduced funding, staffing will have been reduced so the work burdens are ever-increasing, so releasing staff for these audits is going to be extremely intense.

So, the provision of £27000 was always going to be so insufficient and after the pilot Nottingham council as declared bankrupt, was this due to the increased pressure of the pilot? It may have been coming but the pilot wouldn’t have helped.

More councils will do so eventually, perhaps everyone in time.

Pity there isn’t a CQC investigating the government for they would have a field day and then who could the government call upon?

But none of this is helping councils so they will go under for I can’t see this government helping more nor the next one, hinder, yes, but helping, no.

Governments who would have them for is there one government in any country that is any good, perhaps not.

No more funding, work within your budget! Stop employing expensive consultants and people who can’t do their job!