Should have held a party!! Mowed the lawn instead.

I should have held a party, or at least tried to write something a bit clever.

Exactly 8 posts ago was my 1000th.

It's interesting to look at the bottom of the blog though and see what floated peoples boats and got them reading.

Some of it I liked when I wrote it, some of it I am  less impressed with at the time or now.

But anyway the student has been all studenty for the last time this academic year.

She came home with her portfolio from her practice learning wotsit.

Now lets get all social work here, she does her placement which is about doing the job and she can either pass  or fail that. Then she produces the document that talks about what she did and thats an academic piece of work. So she could be  crap at the job (which is not true they were foaming at the mouth about how good she is) but if she explains why within a academic framework she is a waste of space she gets a first class honours degree in social work. We don't have any issues with that do we?

She loved her time with the advocacy mob, I went there once and thought they rocked.

While she was there a meeting took place for a man who was a first language Welsh speaker, the social worker was not, so it was assumed the meeting would be in her first language not his, and it was. Let's look at that from a perspective of empowering people to take control of their lives. What did it tell him about who had power. 

Now the student god bless her had lots of other issues with how this social worker worked and diluted them.

Gosh she is getting to be a social worker allready.

But her academic reviewer suggested that challenging someones practice was to be avoided. Lift the carpet and sweep it under.

She then went on to suggest the student should have mentioned the Welsh dimension using amongst other things; isolation, rural poverty and unemployment. Now I am a bit simple but the for me Welsh dimension was about the discrimination and individual disempowerment.

The isolation, rural poverty and unemployment are actually macro issues as live in the village we spend time in in Brittany as they are here. I will let you have the fact that the Assembly has been far better engaged with them than for example Westminster but thats just that we were been better governed whilst Rhodri was involved now we have the nice but dim Carwyn. Wales has been far better served than  Brittany  as Wales ais since the 50's kicked a bit of bottom wheras Brittany was alllways a distant bit of French colony, like Martinique but slightly more bolshy.
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These  are issues in Poland too and Yorkshire, so Wales is defined by rural poverty and unemployment? Errrr  sorry I think you could call that rascism.

Ooops overstepped the mark

R