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Monday 7 September 2009
Blaming the public for social work’s problems Social workers took a lot of flak after the Baby P case, but a government campaign to recruit more is hypocritical.

Tuesday 28 July 2009
The ever-expanding world of mental illness Redefining everyday problems and personality quirks as psychiatric problems is bad news for us all - and democracy.

Wednesday 8 July 2009
Suspicion of social workers is healthy Social workers are trying to improve their image post-Baby P, but the fact is they will always be controversial.

Monday 18 May 2009
The workplace is not a playground The way the term ‘bullying’ has spread from schools to workplaces exposes today’s low view of workers.

Tuesday 3 February 2009
Treating life itself as a mental illness The latest celebrity-fronted awareness campaign conflates everyday emotional turmoil with serious mental ill-health.

Thursday 22 January 2009
A right-on guide to imprisoning children Preventing adults from adopting because they’re too fat or the wrong ethnicity means children will be left in the care system.

Tuesday 18 November 2008
A needle in a haystack Today’s blanket suspicion of what happens ‘behind closed doors’ makes it harder to spot real cases of abuse.

Wednesday 17 September 2008
Turning growing up into going mad A new campaign to tackle ‘ignorance’ about mental health issues among the young pathologises being a teenager.

Thursday 22 May 2008
A cruel and unusual ban The smoking ban in psychiatric institutions means their patients are the only people in Britain forbidden from smoking ‘in their own homes’.

Monday 19 May 2008
Blurring the line between ‘normal’ and ‘disabled’ A charity despairs at public ignorance about people with learning problems. Yet it’s the constant redefinition of disability that sows confusion.

Wednesday 20 February 2008
This case could make losers of us all A British man is suing William Hill because they allowed him to gamble away £2.1million. But who is really responsible for what gamblers do?

Monday 10 September 2007
Look on the bright side of 'later life' Ignore reports that depict millions of elderly people as the victims of abuse or mental illness. Getting older is better than it's ever been.

Tuesday 3 April 2007
Multiculturalism: bad for your mental health? Today's emphasis on 'cultural difference' is one reason why black people get unequal treatment in the mental health sphere.

Thursday 22 February 2007
Lighten up, and let the patients light up Banning smoking in psychiatric institutions - where patients can't just step outside for a fag - is madness.

Wednesday 6 December 2006
Scare in the community Alarming-sounding reports on homicides by mental patients are being used by the UK government to justify draconian new laws.

Wednesday 4 October 2006
Why mental healthcare is a mess It is the authorities' own ever-widening definition of what it means to be mentally ill that is straining resources.

Monday 26 June 2006
A taste of their own medicine? Don’t rejoice in the irony that social workers are now having their private lives interrogated by an unaccountable body – it’s an ominous sign of the times.

Tuesday 28 March 2006
Mental Health Bill: a U-turn for the worse There is little to celebrate in New Labour's change of mind.

Wednesday 30 November 2005
‘One-in-10 kids are mentally ill’? That’s madness Can you spot the three with disorders in your kid's nursery?

Thursday 25 August 2005
The legacy of ‘radical social work’ How contemporary social work theory nurtured the new authoritarianism.
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