Lowest-bidder-wins contract systems for vulnerable people's services degrade the skills involved and the service users

Most of the Kwug Blog blog posts are carefully worded and logged with keyword 'labels' to help seekers of the information contained in those posts reach their goal. that can improve the number of 'page viewings' even when the Kwug Blog editor does not engage in Twitter himself.

Just as important in Google search ratings, if not more so, can be the combination of keyword 'labels' and 'permalink' for a given blog post.

An image of the latest 'All time page viewing statistics for blog posts published on Kwug Blog' appears here.

Page viewing statistics for Kwug Blog posts, May 2010-to-May 2017

One Kwug Blog blog post has long stood out as having received more page viewings than any other on this platform, and that is from early 2014:

KUWG with Simon of Occupy Highlight What Goes on at Atos' Tresco House, Lisson Grove Medical Examination Centre

Anti-Atos Day 2, Kilburn Unemployed Workers Group style

Perhaps, embarrassingly, that could be because the 'permalink' given to it does not reflect the words in the title, but the very generic heading 'blog-post'!
http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/blog-post.html


Much dearer to the Kwug Blog editor's heart is the number 2 ranking given to

British Sign Language Interpreters ripped off by NHS contractor

From NUBSLI via Linda Burnip of Disabled People Against Cuts

No doubt the 'permalink' http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/british-sign-language-interpreters-ripped-off-by-nhs-contractor.html

The underlying message of wider application in that blog post is perhaps:

Lowest-bidder-wins contract systems for vulnerable people's services degrade the skills involved and the service users

The 'search labels' given to this Kwug Blog blog post can be viewed below the blog post.

 By Dude Swheatie of Kwug

Shaping Our Lives: From Mental Illness to a Social Model of Madness and Distress

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From Mental Illness to a Social Model of Madness and Distress (1)

There are growing concerns about UK mental health policy and services. They are widely seen as being in ‘crisis’,chronically underfunded and having fallen far behind physical healthcare. There are also more fundamental worries that they are over-reliant on a narrowly-based medicalised conceptual framework which can be stigmatizing and unhelpful for service users. 

Authors: Peter Beresford, Rebecca Perring, Mary Nettle, Jan Wallcraft

Foreword: Tina Coldham SCIE Trustee and Chair of the SCIE Co-Production Network www.scie.org.uk

Funding: Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Link address:

1. http://www.shapingourlives.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FROM-MENTAL-ILLNESS-PDF-2.pdf

Petitition against the turning of people and 'service users' into profit-making commodities

Dude Swheatie of Kwug has previously commented on how privatisation is turning people and service users into commodities.

In obvious agreement with that observation, 'Amazing Grace' in LB Brent is petitioning David Cameron to say that she does not like what is going on.

Further details at Martin Francis' Wembley Matters blog.

Link

http://wembleymatters.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/i-have-been-put-up-for-sale-by-nhs.html

Service users, disabled people and social workers side-by-side for social justice

Latest newsletter from Shaping Our Lives: a national network of service users and disabled people

• End austerity now national demonstration, Saturday 16 April 2016 http://www.shapingourlives.org.uk/archives/end-austerity-now-national-demonstration
• The Social Work Show 2016 in Manchester on 16 May 2016 http://www.shapingourlives.org.uk/archives/the-social-work-show