极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Child protection enquiry total hits new annual high but proportion finding abuse continues to shrink https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/30/child-protection-enquiry-total-hits-new-annual-high-but-proportion-finding-abuse-continues-to-shrink/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 investigations 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Jason Garside https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/30/child-protection-enquiry-total-hits-new-annual-high-but-proportion-finding-abuse-continues-to-shrink/#comment-327822 Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:57:52 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=202097#comment-327822 How can Child Protection Plans be effective, if social workers are allowed to manipulate how other agencies are involved. This really shouldn’t happen as there is a “Statutory Duty” to involve other agencies and for those agencies to help (submit reports and attend Conferences etc.) but… social workers are allowed to control (manipulate) the police during Section 47 enquiries and domestic abuse key workers and also safeguarding from schools and any other key workers. They control what evidence is allowed into Case Conferences and also control who is allowed at Case Conferences.

I have witnessed this happening (just in case you’re wondering).

Also, Social workers, during Section 47 enquiries pretty much work (operate) outside the grasp of civil law (they don’t have to sign any declarations of truth and CPPs are never put before a judge). Legal advice (paid for) for a family is very limited and there’s no legal aid either!

This isn’t a case of not enough social workers or a lack of resources – it’s an institutional problem of them just not doing their jobs properly and then Social Work England (SWE) and The Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) not regulating and / or taking any effective action against individual social workers or Local Authorities. In other words – this is actually being allowed to happen!

SWE publish (brag about) “performance” figures; for example – how many Fitness To Practice (FTP) complaints are rejected at the Triage stage but they don’t publish any “effectiveness” figures; for example – how many case were rejected due to lack of evidence etc.

Also, FCAs (Family Court Advisors) shouldn’t stand aside if a case is escalated into Family Court when there is already a social worker involved with the family! This practice needs to stop – a FCA should be a fresh pair of eyes on a case before it goes into a court room. The FCA should check that the social worker’s involvement and case work has been proper and correct (legal).

]]> 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Barry Hawes https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/30/child-protection-enquiry-total-hits-new-annual-high-but-proportion-finding-abuse-continues-to-shrink/#comment-326738 Mon, 06 Nov 2023 19:49:28 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=202097#comment-326738 Alternatively if preventive services are very difficult to access then it might lead to referrals exaggerating developmental concerns to trigger S47 enquiries as the only way into the system.

]]> 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Stephanie https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/30/child-protection-enquiry-total-hits-new-annual-high-but-proportion-finding-abuse-continues-to-shrink/#comment-326287 Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:30:25 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=202097#comment-326287 Have we considered that maybe those assessments and enquires aren’t adequate? That LAs often feel pressure to keep children off CP plans?

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