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极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: David

David — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:14:44 +0000

Exploitation is the word. This contradicts social work values and social work managers need to be held accountable. Where is Social Work England in this?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Abdul

Abdul — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:10:34 +0000

In reply to Anon. Excellent comment. A lot of LA's got away with saying you are only allowed to work up 2 max days of TOIL, and anything extra hours are on a 'loose it' basis. I rarely ever even got to use 1 day of genuine TOIL per month, it was more like 1 or 2 days of TOIL per year if I was really lucky. I use to work a 70 hour weeks, and only ever got paid for 35 or 36. However if the rare occasion I was sick or when a public holiday came up, could never use any of those hours. I use to say to my managers when they questioned my hours, I already worked my 36 hours the week before, but the next Monday morning. No other profession would put up with this. That's why I lam leaving the profession, virtually a 100% job dissatisfaction rate across the board.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:45:52 +0000

The whole unpaid overtime / flexi time is a complete con and is nothing short of exploitation of social workers.

The unions should be all over this but many social workers (across all services) are not in unions and continue working extra hours on an unpaid basis.

There are very few jobs in the country where staff would be expected to work extra hours for free without any pay whatsoever and on some vague promise that you will be able to take the time back.

Workers need to stop working over their hours…

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Lula

Lula — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:19:24 +0000

In reply to FCA.

If they brought back SureStart with it’s early help ethos…TAC…Stay and Plays (where families are suported to recognise they need help) and agencies work seamlessly…to provide that help…then it will allow SW to focus on those who are in need of a more robust approach…

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Joy Horton

Joy Horton — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:41:18 +0000

My heart goes out to those who find themselves overwhelmed by having to balance the caring and bureaucratic requirements of the job.
Prioritising is easier said than done when client needs are so great and varied.
All Supervisory staff need to be be chosen for their capacity to offer genuinely empathetic support to their colleagues. This is difficult when supervisors are so often part of the very system that ‘drives’ management requirements. Encouragement and compassion matter. Being ‘heard,’ ‘believed’ and supported matter whatever the institutional demands require of individuals.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: FCA

FCA — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 07:14:14 +0000

Gosh, my role is slightly different now but in many years in the longer term/work after first hearing team my caseload was never less than 25, often in the 30s. Yes it was horrendous at times. The post assessment hubs are basically a fudge to make caseloads look smaller. Of course parents are going to continue to call the person who prepared the court report and did the work with the family, it will just look like we aren’t actually working it.

I think the letters to children are an integral part of the job and essential to the work we do for children and families. Definitely not bureaucratic. However, yes there are increasing tickboxes and increasing pressure to do compliance/measurable parts of the role. They can’t easily measure what’s really important so tend to slip into a focus on tickboxes which are measurable. Sadly this I think is related to a shift in culture under the current leadership team who came from LA backgrounds. Some of it is very positive – I like and embrace the Together framework – but the relentless push for bureaucratic box ticking does make me think my future may lie elsewhere now.