The implementation of artificial intelligence across all councils and sectors of social work is essential; it has the potential to save time and significantly enhance productivity.

So it might not save anyctime, as it could get its assessment/ recommendations wrong. Where would that leave you as a practitioner?
I just hope that noone ends up in a dituation where managers say ‘well, do what the AI says’ . Thus him retreating into a place of avoidance of inter-human interaction and exchange. And who reads a 75 page transcript? Inless the allicated social worker does a cut and paste on the documentä to summarise it himself.

Actually AI has been used to predict and highlight behaviours supposedly ‘missed’ by social workers. Even Community Care had a feature on it. AI isn’t just a transcribing software. Never be seduced by supposed time saving technology. Social work is in the mess it is now because leaders are beguiled by ‘innovation’ and fads never thinking beyond the first flushes of playing with their new toy. Electronic notes were meant to free up social workers to spend more time out of the office. Result? More time spent on admin infront of a screen. Pro formas were meant to make identifying care needs more efficient and equitable. Result? Bureaucracy deskilling social workers and rationing of care. Trying to predict out human reactions in what is a human relationships profession is not social work. Championing it might get you promotion and nomination for an undeserved Social Worker of the Year baubles,or swoon, an MBE but that doesn’t make you a social worker either.

AI won’t recommend anything, or do your job for you. It only records conversations & meetings, providing a summary or completed assessment, ready for you to check its accuracy and then choose to upload into your case recording system. It records and transcribes. Nothing more, but it should save the time taken on case recording and writing assessments etc.