Question: the HCPC relies on manager’s supervision notes to say that the SW never raised the question of a high caseload as an issue. However, this is the same manager that allegedly failed to flag up the fact that the assessment was 18 months overdue. So, how can anyone rely on that manager’s supervision notes? ]]>
We only know a tiny bit about this case – we don’t, for example, know when the ceiling fell down, whether the landlord was in process of fixing it or whether the family (and social worker) had been afraid to complain about it for fear of generating a revenge eviction. We don’t know whether the mother was corectly reporting that SW didn’t look in bedrooms or was unaware that the SW did in fact do so, nor whether she had been told many times by her SW ‘I am not your friend, I am your worst enemy’ but just didn’t have the same command of linguistic subtitles as the (presumably) universiey educated dudes on the hcpc and we don’t know whether the SW was consciously and productively steering a careful path down the narrow road between making it possible for some sort of loving & caring relationship between children and (at least one) parent to be maintained despite severe poverty or one one hand & on the other tearing all asunder by having the children taken into care to be separated from each other as well as from their parents and friends. I could go on…
What we do know however is that taking children into ‘Care’ is not and can not be a standard national solution to poverty – there are not enough foster carers.
We also know that the hcpc love to blame social workers rather than address the systemic & societal problems because they have to be seen to do ‘something’ and that is what they find easiest.
And we know that the latter has the potential to do far more harm than one social worker falling below her own normal standards in one case.
]]>It is perhaps wrong not to see this within a climate of reduced social housing, many families such as those who are in the country illegally are locked out of decent housing by rules preventing landlords from renting to them. ]]>
My thoughts as well. With electronic recording there is simply no excusing a system – or the people who use the system – that does not red flag seriously overdue assessments. If that information wasn’t available to inform supervision sessions in advance then it should have been, and if it was, but not used, then I suggest the manager is at least as culpable as the social worker.
]]>My thoughts exactly!!!
]]>Ive been a social worker through a number of successive governments, labour was as bad as conservative !
]]>What happened to the manager and service manager who would have known this core assessment was due 18 months prior. Some concern raised there I see none. Where’s the council or housing dept mention of what they had done.. don’t we talk working together?
And if there was a cooker who’s to say they would have used it? Half my clients would use take outs of microwave meals
I’m not saying dromnthe sounds these kids had it bad it sounds horrific to be honest. Busy some questions need asking by the TM and LA for along a core assessment to be 18 months plus a case load of 30-34. Come on HCPC. Go be a Sw and hold that same – it’s a joke
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