Firstly, all Councils must give reasons for the decisions taken. This is an area of administrative law that the Local Government Ombudsman covers and they may help you with this. Although, I suspect, any records would be heavily redacted due to the confused lines of responsibilities and accountabilities between the services.

Similarly, this is something that the Information Commissioner’s Office may help you with. Although in Information Law and your assertion of Data Subject Rights the Council’s duties ‘to hold’ information are pretty narrowly defined. As yet there’s No legal responsibility for an indivisible obligation despite all the talk and literature on partnership and seemlessness.

NB: These are long winded remedies for maladministration and when a Council hasn’t dealt with problems properly and irrespective of the problem. [The Ombudsman] Or when Information must be made available and isn’t [The Information Commissioner] It is a very tiring and can be soul destroying to use either of these.

In addition, Dr Grace Carter is the named lead on SARC Research and maybe interested in your experience. She is available here:

mesarch@coventry.ac.uk

Other information is available here:

https://meshach.coventry.ac.uk/patient-and-public-involvement

and

https:/mesarch.coventry.ac.uk/what’s-our-project-creating/

I do, and genuinely so, wish you and your daughter well ~ sometimes helping isn’t helpful ~ this is or was a central aspect of social worker training and practice education. So, do find out more about Social Work for yourself too.

https://eternalisedofficial.com/2021/02/06/care-structure-heidegger/

See https://theconversation.com/for-black-social-workers-anxiety-and-depression-are-on-the-rise-199373

*blummin autocorrect ~ but that’s the future, no? At the 2007 BASW AGM members, by unanimous show of hands, voted for action against the unchecked use of IT software driving social work decision making. What action was taken? Social Work remains uniquely placed in Data Protection Law, ie there are exemption see s34(d) of 1998 Act but do check it out as it’s been a while since I used it, to make sure that the data held about a data subject is in fact, factual*

When weighing up where SWE are at one must locate their activity in a wider context, right?

Well, and when Eileen Munroe was asked to help Gov with Working Together, the super-meta-narrative was to treat social work, and especially children and family work, within the topography of Complex Adaptive Systems.

Here’s a illustration of how this looks. This is abstracted but if one ever wondered where and how the words and language(s) used emerge this is a good source.

The omissions are, indeed, ontological ie this is about the increasing pressure for computational assessment of social complexity and not about being-a-person in the world or Being-a-Social-Worker. Here’s the link on the Computational Handling Indeterminacy. This is a key driver for SWE whether they know it or not, I think not.

https://www.academia.edu/video/kPJN81?emails_video_card=description-read-more&pls=RUP

Have fun…

This is an illustration of the application of Heidegger’s Care Structure which if applied alongside both Heron’s Six Category Intervention Analysis and the Hawkins-Peulet Model of supervision may, at a push, the SWE use of Right Touch meaningful, I think not but one has to work with what one’s got, right?

https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/15587/what-is-sorge-care-in-heideggers-thought/155597#15597

For CPD on Collective Memory, a vital feature in the art of valorisation in Social-Working see:

Lecture Notes: The Care Structure of Dasins Disclosedness a Revealed Anxiety by Scott D Churchill (2012) ~ Care Structure is the fourth pillar in Heideggerian thought. Related directly to his treatment of forgottenness or Seinvergessenheit and particularly relevant to the issues of Being, being a Child in the World today and Being a Social Worke r with statutory duties to protect children and vulnerable adults.

The total reads to date are @5000 and it’s 19 pages in length.

I can remember when Councils did everything ~ housing, education, buses, infrastructure ~ and while it often meant it was hard to make-sense of how things got done they actually got done in a ‘it makes-sense-making’ way … the real issues of land and property grab, challenges to which are the basis of a lot of social work, are not being addressed ~ is this the real price of ‘professionalism’, I’d say so and wouldn’t be on my own in doing so.

Social Work necessitates being grounded by the reality of people’s lives ~ a social insecurity that is rooted in a path dependence on right-wing thinking; it’s completely avoidable creating needless and wholly preventable social anxiety and subjective distress ~ but then 50% of UK wealth is accumulated from ‘planning gains’ accrued through property and land transfers.

Make no mistake that the real winners in the Children’s Care Services Review will be UK Real Estate Investment Trusts. And, make no mistakes that the MacAlister Review is actively taking sides with the allied Professionals from Banking and Building seeking an easy 8%-12% return on investment.

And, why not? Like it or not they’re the cohort of people wanted to become Foster Carers and Adopters. Our business leaders, like Digby Jones, are exemplary ~ putting money where the mouth is.

The 3rd Sector has been aping it’s commercial counterparts for a couple of decade’s ~ is this the price of being Professional as opposed to Beging a Social Worker?