极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Increasing numbers of agency social workers are NQSWs, warn children’s directors

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Carley

Carley — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 06:51:17 +0000

The memorandum in the Humber side area was stuck to for all of two days. The top limit of pay was promptly busted as organisations are in need of staff. At first just one LA and then other have followed. Not the one I am based at currently.

I am an agency worker – and my social work pay is an additional few weeks money per year compared to my advanced practitioner rate of my last permanent role. I don’t get paid leave or sick pay. I left perm work from a team with a manager who was not the most positive person to work for. I ran out of goodwill to give and their treatment of staff did not foster an environment where I was willing to run on empty to get things done.

We too put in the 70 hour weeks and even with working until 9 or 10 I haven’t yet had the time to register my cpd. In my team we do have the most complex cases with the exception of the ap. Some of the teams permanent staff are on special measures and others leave it all to duty when on leave.

It seems Morale is pretty bad across the board and local authorities need to address this and offer proper support to all their staff.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: DfE working on plan to restrict use of agency social workers, says ADCS president - Rvpg media

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:59:49 +0000

[…] or children’s trusts were filled by agency workers. However, directors surveyed for ADCS’s latest safeguarding pressures report, published this month, said that, since then, “a large number of social workers” had left local […]

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 15:43:24 +0000

Not a little complicit but have embraced privatisation. Social Work Awards even have Sanctuary as a sponsor. A partner of a senior manager where I work is on the ‘Board’ of a provider agency we use. There doesn’t have to be a conflict of interest for this to be not ok as in my opinion it frames the discussions we can have. Agency workers are another end product of privatisation. Their use justifies understaffing. No agency worker has a right to comment on or criticism privatisation.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:16:51 +0000

In reply to Karen. I work with some fantastically committed and caring agency SWs who are very skilled. I’ve never been locum myself but and am now a manager, while we have a real crisis in the workforce I can’t totally understand why people choose locum. Particularly when they can stay in the same role for years as we can’t recruit permanently.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ray Jones

Ray Jones — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 10:48:55 +0000

There seems to be two elephants in the room. First, the public money (which is already too little) is pouring out of children’s social services as BIG profits into private commercial companies and their owners. This is money which should be available for help for children and families not to enhance the privilege of those who are already wealthy. We know that that over £250m a year in England is gushing as profits into the pockets of the owners of private children’s home and fostering companies. And BIG money is also being taken out of children’s services by the owners of social work private employment companies. This is described within its sector as an expanding and lucrative ‘industry’ (not a ‘service’). It is a little difficult to fathom – well at least by me as I am not an accountant whose career has been based on creating opaque parent and subsidiary company structures. But looking at the most recent filed Company House accounts of just two of the many social work employment agencies shows that Sanctuary had growth of 4% in 2021, had a gross operating profit of 16% (£4.4m), net assets of £9.6m, and the remuneration of its top director (plus presumably any share dividends) was £285,000. Liquid Personnel in the same year had a gross profit of £10.1m. Agency social work is driving big profits and a big drain on money which should be used to benefit children and families. And the other elephant in the room? It is creating a poorer service. Children and families have no continuity of contact and relationships with here today-gone tomorrow social workers who never get to know the children and families to whom they can hardly be committed, churn and change in teams hardly helps in building supportive relationships with colleagues and confident teams, workers in other agencies have no idea with who they are communicating, and organisations are unstable and insecure with employment agencies also having colonised the provision of short-term interim managers. This is not a sensible foundation for children’s social services. It was not always like this. It is largely a creation which has expanded since 2010 and the political thrust to move public services into a commercial privatised marketplace. Sad and sorry to see that the social work profession has been at least in some parts a little complicit in this politically and ideologically motivated journey.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Unimportant

Unimportant — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 21:00:54 +0000

All it will do is cause potential social workers to refrain from entering the profession as permanent salaries do not cover the current cost of living and as there is no clear way to know when the economy may stabilise (and even if it does) the pressure of the job means going permanent is far less attractive. If restrictions are being put on current agency workers this may cause those workers to leave, my understanding is that by law LA’s must have enough workers to meet demand of their service if two workers leave that could easily be 40-60+ families that need to either be reallocated putting further pressure on those who remain or the families are unallocated which is far from ideal. By todays standards the base salary for a SW should be around 40k an experienced around 45k and so on the alternative would droves of workers leaving the job plunging the profession into a state of crisis if it is not already

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:36:21 +0000

In reply to L Ethers. Maybe because we care??

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 20:34:31 +0000

In reply to Paul morris. Totally agree, families definitely suffering from this

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 18:55:40 +0000

There’s also not enough spaces for ASYE social workers , it appears all those that qualified better are getting the spaces, whereas there are plenty of decent newly qualified with a lower degree. Perhaps better at hands on!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: L Ethers

L Ethers — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:52:50 +0000

Perhaps what should be considered is a more reasonable salary for permanent social workers. Agency isn’t a preference for sake of it, it keeps our heads above water financially, try being a single working mum on a 36k wage when you can be offered 45k and above.

There’s no other benefits of agency, with no sick pay, no holiday pay why else would agency be the better option?

Plus agency workers are often not given the same standards of supervision and given the harder work and higher case loads because of the view they earn more so deal with it. So practise issues and poor quality should come back to the management they are probably NOT receiving.

Perhaps talk to some agency social workers before making sweeping judgements and saying the service is at risk, perhaps the service is at risk because it does not value or emotionally and financially support its staff ! ! You’d of think the number of social workers leaving the practice would also indicate a bigger problem too..

Why get treated badly, overworked for 10k less?