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极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Bear

Bear — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:51:55 +0000

In reply to Rachael Douglas. Every statutory social worker should be working to ‘keep families together’ as that is what the law says has to be done, as long as it’s safest option for the child. The Family Court have final say about whether a child is removed or not.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: LizHoward

LizHoward — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:14:38 +0000

In reply to Melanie. Only as good as their last case??? What an awful statement to make

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 15:18:53 +0000

Yet again another report of professionals failing in a system that continues to set unrealistic expectations in sectors that are continually underfunded and under resourced over decades.
High case loads, unreasonable work hours, lack of resources and services to support those who are vulnerable in society prevail. Governments continually change systems, reword what is known, blame training and deficits in a sector that has continued to deliver services as best they can in challenging situations.
I have yet to meet a social worker that does not worry about the families they work with as they strive to understand the lived experience of each child in families in situations where you are not always welcome.
Life is messy and complex, society has its views, everyone is a jury and judge. professionals don’t have a crystal ball, social workers do their best as Government Leaders add layers to guide social workers good practice yet in reality they create defensive practice, environments that set unacceptable work hours, poor work life balance, high staff turnovers, resulting in a profession that is continually undermined, underpaid and under appreciated.
The social work profession is a marginalised, the public view is mixed and the professional organisation itself is reactive. Since 2012 we have had 3 professional organisation changes, the professional standards reworded to ‘reshape, strengthen, enable’!! The staff turnover is crippling the sector and the social worker lifespan in the profession is 8 years and given the education costs alone it is an expensive qualification.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kathleen Ritchie

Kathleen Ritchie — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:34:30 +0000

Going into my 15th year in child protection work I made the decision to leave and have never looked back. Year on year failings of the system and child deaths are reported but the same issues remain, ie lack of resources, lack of support when managing extreme and unhealthy ongoing levels of stress, lack of understanding/recognition by government/policy makers of the complexity of child protection work, high caseloads, extensive admin and high turnover of staff. Sadly I have seen many amazing social workers burn out and leave the profession over the years, alongside more of a focus on meeting targets and the life being squeezed out of any community resources.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: John Stephenson

John Stephenson — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 17:40:50 +0000

How about allowing social workers to be social workers,before I retired at least 50% of my time was doing admin tasks.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Abdul

Abdul — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:11:43 +0000

We need more social workers, less cases, less paperwork and report writing, and more time with clients, and more resources and support services. I feel like I’m an admin worker, constantly writing reports and people’s life stories, but I don’t have time to spend with the children or do any of the much needed interventions. We judge social workers by their ability to meet timescales and write reports, but none of it on the actions behind it, which keep children safe.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alison Greenwood

Alison Greenwood — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:47:58 +0000

Social Workers need lower caseloads – how long do we have to keep saying this

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: adarynefoedd

adarynefoedd — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 12:13:30 +0000

The poll does not include better access to Level 1 and 2 services eg Family Centres, Sure Start, relationship building in communities is one of best ways to prevent and protect, Anti poverty work is also crucial. Unfortunately team location and adherence to targets prevent much effective work being done with local communities. Few relationships with local providers unless there is a crisis.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 30 May 2022 08:42:29 +0000

In reply to Twizza. It's all so strange. Isn't SWE meant to ensure safe practice and provide social workers a route to highlight these things? Either SWE is not fit for purpose or social workers are more comfortable being victims than doing something.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Twizza

Twizza — Sat, 28 May 2022 09:41:52 +0000

I think Social Workers and their managers are in a difficult position led by ‘stats’ not families.

Stats reveal it ‘too many’ strategy meetings are held which they state inspectors see as a bad thing so I can see why Solihull developed their approach of a ‘threshold visit. Inspections are viewed negatively from the top down and social workers are allocated children before a visit to ensure every child has a named worker in place, rather than talking with inspectors about the issues, risk assessing referrals and explaining why they cant do certain things, these issues are hidden and the burden is placed back on the social worker and ultimately the family who may have to speak to several social workers when either:

A the worker goes off sick with stress
B they leave the profession
C after the inspection the family is reallocated to a new worker as the reality is the worker cannot physically do what is expected of them.

At times social workers are completely alone in making these decisions and face daily threats trying to carry out their work which impact on the strongest of workers.

Face to face office work is still not in place meaning social workers hold the risk themselves and are more isolated than ever before.

Social workers are leaving the profession and no one seems to know why or they do and take little action instead talking bg about more specialism when really there are not enough social workers around to do the ‘basics’ or just a joint visit when needed needs to be planned.

Local authorises are short staffed, visits are rushed as you may be asked to do many in one day.

Caseloads are high and they are unable to manage the timescales dictated for them which were of course put in to make things better, instead making the work unachievable it’s actually mathematically impossible to fit the expectations on us within the timescales dictated not just legally but additional ones by each local authority.

Computer systems are slow and clunky and involve repeating the same information over and over again to appease management and inspections and notes from managers which relay the work is late. Adding more pressure and meaninglessness input into a file which really is about the child and something they can read when they are older to understand what has happened to them.

We all know the issues….