极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: How social workers’ roles would change under Working Together overhaul

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: J P

J P — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:18:05 +0000

What a load of complete nonsense.

This (the review) has nothing to do with improving families lives and protecting children.

But as with every other change has everything to do with costs.

Why don’t the government take account of every single review from munro – to laming – and every serious case review in between.

Hire more social workers – pay them appropriately – which will fix just about every issue. You don’t need theory or any review to realise this – just ask any of thousands of social workers who have to work from the local authority charade handbook.

As a child in care – care leaver – qualified social worker of nine years, I am ashamed at how this country ‘protects’ its children.

Remove social care funding from local authority decision makers – raise the funding every year with the rate of inflation – then you will likely find managers are able to forward plan the next 10, 15, 20 years of service – versus trying to keep whichever local political party is in power happy.

After nine years of this nonsense – very happy to say I will be leaving the career next month, and with each community care article that is printed – I become more and more happy and confident in my secession making.

What a sh*t show.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Charlotte Noyes

Charlotte Noyes — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:05:55 +0000

In reply to Ray Jones. Absolutely agree

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Roryboy

Roryboy — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 05:20:19 +0000

Martin Calder states … where there is need there is risk. (2003)

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Roryboy

Roryboy — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 05:18:04 +0000

I have worked as a local authority children and families social worker for nearly 25 years, it is saddening to have experienced the change from working to keep children in the family unit at all costs ( where safe) going into a family home putting on a pair of rubber gloves and dealing with crisis for a parent experiencing hard ship.

To the position where just last week a child was prevented going on a school trip to the beach ( as means of behaviour modification) when I challenged stating that the mother of the child was experiencing financial hardship, I was told by an early help worker ( who do not study sociology, anti oppressive practice etc) well she can afford to smoke, she should stop then she could take her child on a day trip. The social, seems to have been lost…

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Sabine Ebert-Forbes

Sabine Ebert-Forbes — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:11:13 +0000

So social worker stillstuck with high caseloads and at risk of getting cases at a later stage for when’ the babe ‘s been almost thrown out with the bathwater. I hope that employers,ie local Authorities will cough up for staff’s counselling sessions.

I also remember a time when we had children on the “at risk register” who should not have been on it for the simple reason that registration was the only way to guarantee access to the additional services the children and their families needed.

The plans do not seem at all thought through in my opinion. I think to really make it work, it needs funding to put into training for various staff, services, resources. Just tinkering around the edges or come up with some harebrained plan because we got to is not helpful and puts children, families and workers at risk.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ray Jones

Ray Jones — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:11:25 +0000

This is a route which will confirm the reset of social work with children and families as not about help and assistance but as remote and threatening child protection risk assessors and risk managers. Social work will be re-framed as about investigations, surveillance and monitoring and initiating the compulsory removal of children from families. Help for children and families will be left to non-statutory (and therefore vulnerable) voluntary and community services and with the door wide open to commercial companies, to unqualified workers, and to hard pressed colleagues in schools, health services and the in the voluntary sector. They will get no additional time or resource as the priority will always be on maintaining capacity in what will increasingly be a stand alone local authority social work child protection service. There is an alternative – local authority and other social workers embedded within communities alongside other colleagues providing a skills mix within multi-professional teams and services with accessibility and acceptability as a resource for families and protecting and caring for children when necessary. It is a continuum and continuity of help and care rather than the step change and cliff edge of being passed on to a local authority separate child protection service staffed by social workers. The English government’s proposed intentions – in part following the English review of children’s social care – are likely to lead to more child protection investigations as the route for other workers and agencies (especially in the context of mandatory reporting) to get any involvement of experienced social workers, more child protection plans and monitoring of families as the means of enabling the continuing involvement of experienced social workers, more children compulsorily removed from families as difficulties for families are not addressed, and with struggling families in the midst of increasing poverty getting less help in the context of inadequate, insecure and non-prioritised service funding..

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Roselyn Thompson

Roselyn Thompson — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:47:59 +0000

I strongly agree with the revised version of Working Together however Social Workers and Teachers always working together and information always changed but most time some party do not write down or passed on information such as children coming from another Local Authorities that is Child Protection order the parent (s) does give the school that information. Only when they come in contact with problems and the teacher make a referral them this come to light. I believe all children’s social care should be link up to one date base that when the family move the children may be track. There’s massive issues happened in children social care especially since the COVID pandemic several children loss in the community and they become victims to the drugs Brant as currier and many have loss in the mental health system as they can’t get appointments.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Michelle R

Michelle R — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:08:14 +0000

I totally agree part of child in need is the skill at recognising when something is not working and risks are increasing – another way of diluting the social work role and the person who has oversight having the responsibility if something goes wrong. As a senior practitioner there is a reliance on experienced and qualified staff knowing when to escalate and I think that this may be lost under these practices .

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:41:07 +0000

Note that it doesn’t say that the “lead practitioner” needs to be working for the local authority.

This leaves open the prospect of a remote team of Social Work Practice Supervisors allocating Lead Practitioner roles to other agencies, e.g. schools, health visitors and simply oversighting their assessment.

Whilst there is a positive stated intention of having children supported and assessed by those that know them, and already have relationships, there is also a significant risk of the social work being hollowed out, and social work functions being passed over to already overstretched education, health and voluntary sector organisations.

Assigning a social worker once Child Protection concerns are established is too late, and misses the key messages from the Star Hobson and Arthur Labinjo-Hughes reviews that the “pieces of the puzzle” need skill and understanding to pull together – a key skill of qualified, experienced and curious social workers.