极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Care review response will start to address mounting social work pressures, says ADCS president https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/01/13/care-review-response-will-start-to-address-mounting-social-work-pressures-says-adcs-president/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:09:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 ADCS president Steve Crocker 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Joe https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/01/13/care-review-response-will-start-to-address-mounting-social-work-pressures-says-adcs-president/#comment-308066 Tue, 17 Jan 2023 14:09:40 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=195766#comment-308066 It’s disappointing that social workers don’t have the unity to strike for current pay and working conditions. Working conditions seem more and more challenging. Social work unions accepted a 4% pay-rise, meanwhile teachers are arguing for 10%, nurses for 19%. This is in the context of 1 in 5 social work posts being vacant, which suggests those in post must be trying to juggle 20% extra work. No wonder retention is so challenging and the numbers of children requiring children’s service involvement is increasing.

My blue print for children’s social work would be:
Maximum caseloads of 15 children – if it goes over pay should increase with each percentage over the maximum of 15. I know complexity can range, but 15 is safer and would mean the proper relationship based social work that we all strive for could flourish. This should happen before any introduction of further assessment of knowledge and skills – otherwise that’s just another added pressure in an unsustainable working environment.
National pay scales – these would have to reflect rises in other professions.
I agree with more time with families and better case management systems to reduce case recording time.
Until there is a fair pay package and safe caseloads I can see why agency work is attractive and wouldn’t be fair to introduce rules to reduce this.

]]> 极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Molly https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/01/13/care-review-response-will-start-to-address-mounting-social-work-pressures-says-adcs-president/#comment-307824 Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:14:24 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=195766#comment-307824 The insult of not mentioning Adult Social Work is partly why so many feel as undervalued as they do. Hence, they have zero loyalty to LAs. Where do all these children go when they become adults? Try working in a hospital team when there’s no placements and you are the one voice in a multitude of healthcare voices, pressuring you to move patients out of bed when there’s nowhere to put them.Try working in LD Where your skills need to extend to risk management plans for paedophiles, and offenders with mental health problems and LD as well as all the other adult skills needed, including knowledge of muliple different health and learning needs and how these affect individuals. Again, once you finished chairing the multi agency safeguarding meeting with Probation, you then need to find a placement and ensure that it is working, and prepared to manage the complexity of your service user’s needs. Try working in a hospital mental health team, or a community mental health team, where again you are the only Social Care voice, and there are no placements. The amount of comments I have read on here about children’s social workers being real social workers, is I’m sure partly the reason adult social work is struggling so badly. We all did the same training, and this idea that children’s social workers are somehow superior in their knowledge is absolute rubbish. I’ve worked in many teams with children’s social workers who have come to work in adults believing it will be easier. I have never seen such stressed out workers. Have a look at the Facebook pages for social work England. See the low morale for adult workers and the fact that our own colleagues in children services don’t value us gives the insult more gravitas. Social Work is on its knees from cradle to the grave.

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