https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/18/moving-from-compliance-to-professional-curiosity-for-social-workers-key-to-improvement-report/ Social Work News & Social Care Jobs Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:00:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/18/moving-from-compliance-to-professional-curiosity-for-social-workers-key-to-improvement-report/#comment-325447 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:00:12 +0000 https://www.communitycare.co.uk/?p=201792#comment-325447 Many financial problems were created when services became outsourced for children. The cost of a child in privately run children’s homes is phenomenal. A good foster care placement was always the best option for a child who could not be returned home. Unfortunately many foster carers were lost to the service when they became more professionalised. If a foster carer has more than one child, contact with birth parents can often result in foster carers taking children for contact every day along with attending child care reviews and other professional meetings.
There are so many good, enthusiastic and caring social workers in Children’s Services but they are often let down by weak and inexperienced management. This results in social workers becoming disheartened, stressed and ultimately leaving the job as they know that if a child dies on their case loaded they will be hounded and blamed without any support from management.
If authorities cannot operate a good needs led service, then it’s better not to offer a service at all. But that takes courage from local authorities to put that a the door of the government.

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