极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Ofsted and BASW raise safeguarding concerns over allowing non-social workers to do child in need assessments

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:09:57 +0000

I oversee a non-statutory case-holding Family Support Service having previously overseen child protection social work services. The complexity of the work in Family Support very closely resembles that of Child In Need Social Work 10 or perhaps even 5 years ago, but the work the Family Support Teams do is exceptional and the skill of the staff (which is constantly promoted) means that families are worked with really effectively. I’d hold up their work against any team.

The management at both Team and Head of Service level is a mixture of social work and non-social work qualified staff which offers a wonderful mix of perspectives which I think aids rather than diminishes the recognition and action relating to safeguarding. There is pressure and some of the impacts of the work seen in social work has become present in the Family Support (though not to the same degree).

It could be perceived as presenting a threat to social work, but I think in a positive way in posing the question as to the profession as to the specific skills it brings. Overall, I think this is a positive step that will push forward social work and allow room for skilled staff to undertake the lead role with families, who were previously prevented from doing so.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Marianne Pratley

Marianne Pratley — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:38:21 +0000

another way of making the case loads in frontline teams look better when cases go to non qualified workers – and at the risk to children whose worker may not have the direct skills to manage or the time as no doubt they will end up with high case loads leading to mistakes and burnout just like the burnt out SWs.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: sandy beach

sandy beach — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:08:25 +0000

In reply to dk. in many areas early help is an absolute mess, i have in the last year worked across three areas in the UK all have significant issues wiht thresholds, early intervention being asked to pick up stuff that is clearly not early intervention, without the support, funding or legislation needed to manage this. As you say families and young people are the ones that are failed in this. And many agencies feel exposed, unsupported, isolated and vulnerable trying to manage this work.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: sandy beach

sandy beach — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 10:03:09 +0000

this is already happening as many external agencies referring in CSE, parental / child violence that is out of control and missing children have all noted.
Yet the thresholds keep getting pushed down, whilst the services become more threadbare.
It’s all a joke, either we decide it’s acceptable or not, and its about time some of the PSW’s and AD’s of children’s services spoke out.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: P West

P West — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:10:58 +0000

Most Early Help / Targeted support workers are already Case responsible and act as the Lead Professional, and most of the time holding cases at CIN level but for small reasons have not fallen into Social Care.
These changes will not be a big shift for us

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:38:36 +0000

As noted in my comment on the previous article, the guidance leaves an even bigger gap – that of the Local Authority outsourcing it’s assessment functions to already overstretch partner agencies, and solely retaining the “social work allocation and oversight”.

As BASW rightly note, CIN work is part of safeguarding children – Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 states that it is the general duty of every local authority to SAFEGUARD and promote the welfare of children within their area who are in need; and so far as it is consistent with that duty, to promote the upbringing of such children by their families.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: dk

dk — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:14:56 +0000

Overworked frontline managers, i.e. 95% of them, are not going to be able to provide adequate “social work oversight” on work for children whose plans are held by non-social work staff. Any reform must start from a place of acknowledging some very basic realities, no matter how tantalizing the theory might seem. This will fail managers, it will fail the non-social work staff they supervise, and it will fail children. I am a big believer that vulnerable families need a much better early intervention offer, something that offers the warmth and nurture statutory social work intervention is either perceived to or genuinely does fail to offer, but that cannot and will not be offered by changing the job title of the person who knocks on their doors. How “supportive” and “stigmatizing” CiN work can be is nothing to do with it being CiN work and EVERYTHING to do with working cultures, practices and orthodoxies.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Just passing by

Just passing by — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:46:24 +0000

Desperate measures, it’s such a shame that things have deteriorated to this.