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The 2023 Re-Cap: The New Social Worker’s Top 10 Articles for 2023.PLUS

The New Social Worker

What can we say about 2023? The New Social Worker’s list of Top 10 Articles for 2023 tells us the story of what social workers have been reading here. We look forward to seeing you, our readers, our friends, in 2024.

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Perdita: Encounters with a woman with dissociative identity disorder. Part 3: In which Perdita tries to kill me

The Masked AMHP

One day Perdita left a message on our voicemail: "About to take a massive overdose. See me now or see me in hell." I knew she wasn’t messing about. Grendel was in charge. I went straight out to see her, taking a female colleague with me. I know when not to go alone. When we arrived at her house, her front door was ajar. I had a horrible feeling of déjà vu.

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Cleverly’s clampdown will be a knockout blow to a crumbling care system | Letters

The Guardian

Dominic Carter says the new rules that aim to ban dependants of foreign workers show that the government doesn’t care. Plus letters from Andrew Hillier and Roy Grimwood Social care has been on the ropes for years, following the failure of successive governments to even come up with a funding plan, let alone get a grip on our social care crisis. The announcement of a clampdown on migrant workers could be a knockout blow ( ‘If you go to Saudi, it’s sunny’: foreign care workers could quit UK after