Rob Mitchell @RobMitch92 Twitter profile

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1 year

Listening to the local radio announce some school closures due to weather. Reminded of when my son heard his school was closed and did a conga around the kitchen. He was 24 & Head of Year 6. #snowday

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11 months

The Nazis told the German people in the 1930s that the cost of caring for people who couldn’t work was 60,000 Reichmarks each. Today the @Telegraph will do it for you via their calculator.

Rachel Charlton-Dailey 💖💜💙

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The telegraph has created a calculator that lets people calculate how much disabled people who can't work are "Costing" them. This is deliberately inciting hatred against disabled people. I urge you all to report this to IPSO if you can

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3 years

Could we stop calling people ‘mum’ or ‘dad’ when we are referring to the parents of someone we are working with? It’s either ‘your mum/dad’ or the persons name (whichever they prefer). At its very best it’s deeply patronising.

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2 years

@TheSquareBall “Just ask for any name of the first team squad. They’re all great” he said. #lufc

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4 years

Care home staff continue to go to work on minimum wages & zero hour contracts to help care for & protect the most vulnerable people & place themselves at increased risk. No matter what else we forget when we are on the other side of this, I hope we never ever forget this.

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2 years

Here’s a social work trap. How many times do we get this - ‘Can you provide assurance to me/the board/this meeting that P is absolutely safe?’ Our answer must surely always be ‘no, I cannot do that. No one can. And the reason you are asking me is to make you safe, not the person’

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5 years

Fax machines to be banned from NHS. Great. Next on the list is to ban the widespread belief that bedside curtains are soundproof.

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5 years

We are a grandad. Welcome baby Oliver. 6lb 6. A bit early and very beautiful. New baby doing very well New mum doing very well New dad doing very well New grandad a bit of an emotional wreck

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3 years

If someone new is admitted to the ward, particularly via a section of MHA, please don’t stay in the locked office, typing notes. Whatever rank you are please see the person, say hello and that you will care for them and that they will be safe.

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4 years

Love this email to my son from his Physics Teacher. These are sort of teachers you remember.

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3 years

Huge thank you for all the lovely messages about the MBE. It feels a bit overwhelming and the impostor syndrome, that has lurked all my life, turning up at things like the first day of my social work course, appears to have taken up permanent residence in my head.

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3 years

Biggest difficulty in my experience of 30yrs in social work is never people. It’s poor systems, heavy bureaucracy, IT & organisational culture. We are asking staff to fly jumbo jets & providing them with broken mini’s.

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4 years

Referring to people as ‘mum’ or ‘dad’ or ‘sister’ etc without prefixing the persons names (ie Rob’s mum, Rob’s sister) is an artefact that reflects the most belittling, controlling and damaging form social work.

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5 years

My wife returned from Sweden with these for the ‘children’. Child A is 15 & would be mortified if his mates found out. Child B is 21 with a child of his own on the way. Child C is 24, a teacher & Head of Year 4. #Adventcalendar

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4 years

Just asked my 16 year old if the 6 months away from school has affected his wellbeing. He said ‘yes, it’s been lovely’.

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5 years

Blimey. It’s reached the point of mimicking unfunny adverts from 2013. We’re doomed. #simples

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1 year

OK. Big job here for Adult Social Work then. This is not a continuation of NHS care, it’s a transfer of care. So let’s be clear about consent, choice, mental capacity, control, autonomy, human rights and the right for people to choose NOT to go to a care home but to go home.

Sky News

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1 year

The health secretary has announced the government will block-book beds in residential homes in England so around 2,500 people can be released from hospitals when they are medically fit to be discharged. Read more here 👉

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3 years

A Social Worker in one of our teams has decided to translate the 5 principles of MCA into Urdu & is now arranging to give talks at mosques. The commitment & dedication of social work colleagues to rights-based practice just amazes me.

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2 years

If we continue to allow professional social work with older people to be defined as care brokerage, with our sole focus on discharge at all costs & the prevention of admission, we are complicit with the erosion of the profession & we will increase the risk of harm to older people

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2 years

Wearing masks and doing LFTs aren’t really restrictions. They are reasonable precautions any civilised society would take to protect those who may not be fortunate enough to only experience mild symptoms.

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6 years

My wife going to Gran Canaria with her mates is one thing. My wife buggering about with the central heating here via her phone whilst getting pissed in a bar is quite another!

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@RobMitch92

2 years

Thank you so much for the lovely, warm, kind and extremely generous comments. I am very fortunate.

Bradford Council

@bradfordmdc

2 years

Today as we celebrate #WorldSocialWorkDay2022 we want to say huge congratulations to our Principal Social Worker @RobMitch92 who today picked up his MBE. #TeamBradford is really proud of you. Thank you for everything you do 👏🏼🏅🥳 #MBE #WindsorCastle #WSWD2022

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4 years

A potential legal challenge on A’Level and GSCE results based on Equalities Act. Yes, exactly that @AndyBurnhamGM ! The system has discriminated against working class people. Where was the EIA & what did it say? Thankfully someone sees it!!! #AlevelResults #gcseresults2020

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@RobMitch92

1 year

Just booked on to a course then saw it starts with an ice breaker - for an hour!! Course leader type people - Leave the ice alone. It’s natural and there for a reason. Everyone is totally happy with it apart from you!

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4 years

Lots of credit to @AndyBurnhamGM on the A Level/GCSE government U-turn. A reminder that politicians who are in touch with the people and able to make a difference are still about. Excellent public service & thank you. #ALevelsResults #GCSE2020

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1 year

So #PennyMordaunt Voted against free school meals. Voted for the Bedroom Tax & welfare cuts. Voted for more sewage in our waters. Backs Rwanda plan. Voted to protect those earning £150k from paying slightly more tax. Is able to hold an inanimate object.

Here are Penny Mordaunt’s voting records including health, housing and education

We have compiled a list of Penny Mordaunt’s voting history between 2010 and 2020.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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3 years

The discharge of older people from hospital into care homes in Feb/March 2020 isn’t even worthy of the term ‘afterthought’. It was the culmination of systemic culture, underpinned by language such as ‘delayed discharges, flow & bed blockers’, that normalised all actions taken.

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2 years

The challenge isn’t about creating a social work workforce - the challenge is about creating an organisation that a social work workforce want to work for.

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@RobMitch92

4 years

Social work students - if you can cope with a fraction of this level of uncertainty, balance everything like you are doing & still want to do this then you are totally made for social work & we are extremely lucky to have you! Keep on keeping on.

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3 years

We must never forget that the people who not only didn’t ‘cower’ but actually risked their lives & their families lives in the face of COVID-19 were care staff on zero hour contracts & minimum wages.

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4 years

Local Authorities - if you find yourself asking exhausted carers/family members to provide a receipts for things like a McDonalds milkshake, that isn’t personalisation, it’s oppression.

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4 years

Sat in Morrisons car park at 6am while my wife shopped. Who should turn up? Only the bloody covids! I was livid. But I was alert. I controlled it and ordered it out. It obeyed. Boris was right.

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3 years

One thing we urgently need to do at a national level now is start a conversation and agree an action plan with social work educators, social work placement providers, employers and the regulator. Our students need a clearly defined pathway to support them.

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@RobMitch92

3 years

It isn’t patient, or service user, or client or customer. It’s people. That’s the first thing to ‘fix’.

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@RobMitch92

1 year

@TheSquareBall After last years ‘DeBockable’ he didn’t want anyone from the present day squad and instead wanted someone with a ‘genuine connection with the fans’. #lufc #warrior

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3 years

Social work retention is about pay sometimes & organisational culture always.

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2 years

You know what, I am absolutely sick and tired of professionals not getting MCA and treating professionals who do get it, who study it in detail and who apply it lawfully and respectfully as if they are somehow wrong. Enough.

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7 years

Lots of dehumanising language about again. Not bed blockers or fallers or revolving doors. People. We work with people. Like you and me.

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4 years

Embarrassed & angry to hear suggestions that local lockdown here is due to BAME communities not taking the virus seriously with no mention of pubs opening, football celebrations etc. We know what those words are. We see it for what it is. #HateSpeech

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@RobMitch92

2 years

Very proud of my boy @HarryMitchell11 who is a qualified and registered Social Worker today. Not quite the well paid Professional Chocolate Taster that you wanted to be but not a bad second choice xx.

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2 years

Very welcome & supportive letter to all Social Workers from @IsabelleTrowler & @LynRomeo_CSW reiterating that social workers make a positive difference each & every day for people they support.

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4 years

I don’t want ‘828 dead’ to ever be contextualised, compared to other countries or worst still seen as grounds for optimism. It’s people dying. Its as devastating as it gets. Instead of clapping ourselves to oblivion we must at some stage stop & consider those we’ve lost.

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3 years

Somewhere safe to live Something to do Someone to love and to be loved And something to hope for Social care - not rocket science.

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1 year

Shout out today to all the Social Workers who properly understand what safeguarding is despite lots of other people telling them that they don’t, that ‘something must be done’ and throwing out meaningless, unhelpful buzzwords like ‘professional curiosity’.

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4 months

Huge appreciation to all Local Authority EDTs who will quietly pick up the baton this evening when we all have our Out Of Offices on They do the most amazing work in the most difficult of circumstances Dedicated, professional, kind & compassionate. A big thank you to all 🧑‍🎄🤶🏾🎅🏻

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9 months

Medics. If you get to be Consultants please don’t start referring to people in letters as ‘a charming, delightful 86 year old lady’ etc. It’s really patronising and creepy as fuck.

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4 years

If we want Social Workers to do a good job we must equip them with the best IT available. In too many places we are asking social workers to win Grand Prix races on milk floats that won’t start.

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5 months

My first ever social work referral. “Hello. Is it’s Mrs Knight? I’m Rob from Social Services” “Yes love. Call me Gladys”. “Oh. Gladys… As in Gladys Knight?” “ Yes love. But if you mention The Pips you can fuck off now”. Work with older people. I was hooked.

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Social work with Older People ! lots of great evidence emerging ! @AdultPSWNetwork @BASW_UK @1adass

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3 years

Shout out to all those who have lost their dads, don’t know their dads, wanted to be dads or for whatever reason no longer see their dads. Hope it’s a good day x.

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3 years

Hearing of a group of social workers today who spent the day with someone they support cleaning the house & making it nice. When theres no blue lights & no court orders, no adrenaline & no pink papers - social work is at its brilliant, preventative best.

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3 years

Dawn raid on 17yr old sons bedroom this morning resulting in the liberation of 6 cereal bowls, 7 glasses & 4 plates. All captives were largely unhurt & there was little resistant from the hostage taker, save for a confused sounding grunt.

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5 months

It’s that magical night when I pick up my wife & her nursing colleagues at 2am after their Xmas do. One will forget where they live. All will call me a ‘saint’ for driving them home & at least two will fall on their front door steps to huge shrieks of laughter. 🎄🎄🎄 #lovenurses

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@RobMitch92

2 years

Social work is often at its most helpful when it’s quiet & unseen. But we also need to remember it’s importance & help it maintain a profile so that new people join the profession & those in practice feel connected & appreciated so we can do social work better. Enjoy #WSWD2022

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2 years

@BenOxlade1 He’s a beautiful boy. Can’t wait until you can bring him into work one day and I get a cuddle. Keep going Ben. Really lovely to see the Twitter support & your colleagues are totally with you mate.

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2 years

Eldest son messages to say he’s sick with excitement opening his Advent Calendar. He’s 27. Head of Year 4. #AdventCalendar

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2 years

Brilliant.

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4 years

Very nearly 30yrs in social care and I have never had a week like that. Saw some amazing dedication to public service & in awe of so many. Good luck & huge thanks to those working to keep us safe over the weekend. Big shout out to fab EDT staff in particular.

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3 years

Potentially two huge outcomes here. The reforms aim to tackle the shamefully disproportionate rate of black people sectioned under the act and also ensure neither autism nor a learning disability are grounds for detention under the act.

Mental Health Act reforms aim to tackle high rate of black people sectioned

Changes will ensure neither autism nor learning disabilities are grounds for detention under the act

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Awful week where we have seen the ultimately cost of the ‘and social care’ culture Social care is not health. It is as unique as it is vital. It is about love, care, support & enabling rights. Instead of rushing to divest themselves of it, we need LAs to own it & fight for it.

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4 years

‘It starts with a strengths based conversation’. No it doesn’t. It starts with LAs changing, showing humility, believing in the people they serve and genuinely embedding human rights.

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8 months

If we continue to think that Social Workers belong in high rise office buildings, immersed in a head quarter culture of licensing, permissions, regulations & audits, don’t be surprised if they find ‘community’ social work & strengths based approaches a bit tricky.

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3 years

If you set your adult social work service up to be an assessment service. If you focus on the number of assessments they do & how quick. If you dish out asmnt quotas. If you call social workers ‘Assessors’. If that’s what it is, expect the absolute worst for people & the service.

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3 years

Big shout out to all the Councils Emergency Duty Teams working the extra hour tonight & helping keep people safe. EDTs are brilliant colleagues & Local Authorities at their very best. #ThankYouEDTs

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3 years

Behind every successful social work student is a team of lecturers, academics, practice educators, workplace supervisors & wider social work colleagues. Huge shout out & thank you to anyone who has supported students, particularly over the last 18 months - you’ve inspired! 🎓🎉🥳

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4 months

Report on @BBCBreakfast on ‘warm banks’. These are free places to go and keep warm. Whether it’s warm banks or food banks, we must stop normalising poverty. Adults and children going hungry and experiencing severe cold due to cost is a political choice. #GeneralElectionNow

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2 years

Tough couple of weeks ahead. Social Workers - hold your nerve. Our unique role in multi disciplinary teams is in ensuring rights are upheld & that people are not lost in the system. Employers - remember why you employ Social Workers and SUPPORT THEM. #SWisHumanRights

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@RobMitch92

3 years

Big shout out to all the social work students learning via online or face-to-face lectures & to those doing their best on practice placements. So much respect to you all for the way you’ve adapted. Thank you for all you’re doing. #inittogether

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@RobMitch92

2 years

Local Authorities/CCGs - Chasing exhausted carers/family members to provide a receipt for every single penny of a Direct Payment is disproportionate, unnecessary & cruel. It most certainly is not ‘personalisation’ - it’s harassment of people we rely on most.

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3 years

Reminded last week of a man who for over 20 years was not allowed in his own kitchen due to an ‘incident with a knife’. The staff didn’t know what the incident was. There was no record on any system of what the incident was. 20 years. The myths of safeguarding.

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4 years

First 5k run of lockdown in the battle against the COVID stone(s). Went ok. Was overtaken at one point by an older couple walking off their cooked breakfast but as I told them, it isn’t a fucking race.

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4 years

Sat in barbers (with my son - haircut days long gone for me). Customer talking to barber about social worker working with his mum. ‘the social worker said mum didn’t need a care home, she’s safer at home & actually she is’. I had to contain myself. I wanted to scream yeeeeeessss!

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3 years

It’s some strange science that we are following that magically allows people to meet up for 5 days from 24th December. And clearly different science from the science that stopped gatherings at Eid & Diwali.

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@RobMitch92

5 years

Going to start the week with a Munby reminder. None of us came into social work & social care with the intention of making people miserable.

MCAteamBradford

@MCAteamBradford

5 years

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3 years

Lots of excitement as son gets his advent calendar. He’s 26. Head of Year 4. #AdventCalendar

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2 years

The government of 1997 revolutionised support for children and families by tacking poverty through Sure Start. These were dismantled from 2010 onwards for political reasons. We won’t be lectured on poverty by a government who have done everything they possibly can to embed it.

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4 months

I know it’s an unpopular, unfashionable and inconvenient view, and I’m sure there are some amazing hospital discharge staff in situ, but based on 30+ years experience, I believe discharge arrangements for older people very much need dedicated, qualified hospital social workers.

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3 years

This is why social work is sometimes exceptionally hard & why despite our faults (and we will have loads & will make loads of mistakes) it needs support & encouragement. In the middle of the toughest of safeguarding situations and risk, good social workers get this.

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3 years

I think the one thing that SW students do need to see from the profession at the moment is kindness. This is our moment to display our social work values to our new colleagues.

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3 years

@TheSquareBall That’s what 10 million people shouting ‘square it’ sounds like #lufc

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5 years

Social Work isn’t a job. It has to be a way of life because the tools required for SW are its values. You can work as a welder Mon-Fri and vow not to be a welder on weekends. Not possible for SWs to do that. All thoughts, actions & intentions are fuelled by our values, always

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4 years

Feeling bad for social work students. Awful uncertain times. I’ve got 3 copies of Social Work, Cats & Rocket Science to give away to students. Just reply to this tweet and I’ll randomly pick 3 out of hat to send a book to (if I get 3 replies that is!!) please RT to students

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2 years

These are the happy faces of freed hostages, released this morning following a brave dawn raid of 18 yr olds bedroom. The hostage taker slept through the raid, making occasional grunting noises only. All hostages will be deep cleaned & returned to those who love and missed them.

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1 year

Just sent someone an email that meant to end with “Leave it with me, I’ll do some digging” but actually read “Leave it with me, I’ll do some dogging”. Not sure of my next move tbh.

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3 years

If anyone in health & social care doesn’t know the 16 year old Mental Capacity Act it’s because they don’t want to.

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3 years

@TheSquareBall Kalvin played the pass for the pass for the pass for the pass before the goal. Goal made in Leeds in my book. #lufc

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@RobMitch92

6 years

Good luck to those Social Work students starting their social work education over the next few weeks When the going gets tough and you wonder if it’s all worth it, see the wonderful description of your chosen profession from @ruthallenonline @BASW_UK What a choice you’ve made!

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10 months

Unsurprised to see zero mention of social work in the #NHSWorkforcePlan At a national level our only relevance to the NHS is in terms of our access to social care provision to prevent admission, administer discharge and to protect acute NHS settings. All else is pretend.

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5 years

Note to self. Don’t write Christmas cards at lunchtime at work unless you want to go for the glitter beard look at this afternoons meeting.

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3 years

My sister was called vulnerable when she went blind. As she said to a professional who kept calling her vulnerable, ‘I may be vulnerable crossing the M62 without my guide dog but there’s only one person vulnerable in my house right now and it’s you if you keep saying that’.

Rob Mitchell

@RobMitch92

3 years

‘Vulnerable’ used to widely describe adults is such a disempowering & othering term. If there is any vulnerability (to abuse etc) then labelling people with this sort of word goes a long way to re-enforce it.

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4 years

This video is about my sister Kitty. She benefitted from organ donation when she was alive & when she died she too donated organs so that others may live. I am so proud of her & all she achieved & I miss her every single day xx #organdonation

NHS Organ Donation💗🫀🫁

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Emmerdale actress Kitty McGeever was waiting for a second transplant but sadly died before she could receive it. Kitty then donated her organs to help others. Regardless of pre-existing health conditions, you too could save lives as an organ donor.

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1 year

Sad news about Paul O’Grady. Former social worker at Camden and trailblazer for many. May he rest in peace.

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3 years

Just seen an NHS advert for ‘adult social care jobs’. Vast majority of staff were in uniform. When do we get to have the conversation about stigma & about how not wearing uniforms is often important & about not having big badges & lanyards around our necks?

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1 year

I don’t wish to be stereotypical but M&S cafe really does seem to be the place for retired social workers. I’ve honestly just seen 5 in 10 mins… unless it’s a team meeting from 1998.

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5 years

I’m about to do the Marks & Spencers 7am run. Not sure I need anything. Think it’s for the adrenaline rush. Last year there was nearly a fight over a jar of duck fat.

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6 months

If I could recommend one book to really busy social work students, social workers, practice educators and supervisors. It’s like a cheat code.

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3 years

Happy World Social Work Day. So here we are, practicing relational social work into year two of lockdown. No one said it would be easy?! Have a lovely day and to all my social work colleagues, I am because you are. #WSWD2021 #Ubuntu #warumsozialarbeit #whysocialwork

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3 years

Moving out of social work practice to a place where you can safely critique it is fair enough but it doesn’t help us change it. The social workers who are trying to change it from the inside are the ones we need to wholeheartedly encourage & support.

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@RobMitch92

3 years

Colleague asked me today why we call newly qualified social workers ‘newly qualified’. He said imagine getting on a plane & hearing ‘good morning ladies & gentlemen, I’m your newly qualified pilot’. We’re all just social workers aren’t we? Think the NQSW title is unhelpful.

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Rob Mitchell

@RobMitch92

1 year

House filled with objects and person is retired professional - eccentric. Action: smiling talk of person being a character & a collector. House filled with objects and person is working class older person - hoarder. Action: Hoarding Panel/Fire Service. Discuss residential care

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Rob Mitchell

@RobMitch92

5 months

My first Christmas card of the year is always from the kind wife of a lovely man I helped move out of a care home over 20 years ago and it melts my heart that she still remembers me. Merry Christmas indeed ❤️

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