极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Chief social worker to step down after decade in post

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Penny

Penny — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 12:20:28 +0000

Coral, Kieran and Tahin describe my experience and my increasing disillusionment with the current state of social work. I have been a qualified social worker for 27 years. I used to know I was a social worker, now I’m just a bureaucrat trying to salvage something of what social work should be and increasingly failing

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Tahin

Tahin — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 11:37:22 +0000

The trouble with thinking that ascending PSWs from their already power infused positions to the high table of ADASS is progressing social work is that it willfully ignores the bureaucracy mired, budget driven reality of our practice. It’s not Directors or PSWs who determine what we do but our employers whose priorities aren’t investing in an adequately staffed, proactively supervised and supported workforce. Every cut to our staffing levels and resources, at least in my part of Yorkshire, has been met with the “not ideal but we have to make it work” defeatism by our managers. Ask any social worker what their experience of placement panels, supervision, the direction of our practice being determined by managerialism is and the rosy picture presented by the PSW Network will be laughed at. Policies, taking tea with Ministers, platitudes only mean something if they make a practical difference to practice and user experience. On all objective levels the chasm between what we experience and what our leaders think we do is huge. Everybody does their best, tries their hardest but to pretend tangible improvements are being made to our daily experiences is frankly insulting. No coherent recruitment strategies, vacancies, endemic racism, supervision practically non-existent, post qualifying training a distant memory. How have the past 10 years been “glorious”?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 07:24:12 +0000

Only in social work would the truth Coral describes be deemed cynicism and pals congratulating pals not be deemed sycophantic. The sorry state of honest practitioner experiences being ignored and traduced summed up in the exchanges here. Our leaders would do themselves a great deal of good and learn grace too if they understood the difference between a cynic and a sceptic. Celebrating the retirement of a colleague while ignoring how the post left contributes to improving the experiences of practitioners and users of services is hardly an endorsement of a learning nor a listening profession. By all means enjoy the tea and celebrations but know too that we are the bread and butter of this profession and without us no amount of MBEs and the like would sustain it.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Pauline

Pauline — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 11:31:49 +0000

In reply to CAG. The cynicism word strikes to reinforce that in social work debate must only be conducted within prescribed parameters.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Coral

Coral — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 01:01:11 +0000

10 years in post- nothing has changed at the coal face.
LPS hangs in the balance; A New Mental Health Act – shelves! So many opportunities and none of them capitalised on! Adult social work is in a worse place than ever. We have zero standing with other professions and no status whatsoever in terms of professional recognition. We have a regulatory body that’s failing all social workers – what happens to every £90 sent to them??? Racism experienced by social workers is at an all-time high and nothing is being done about it! We don’t need a “chief Social Worker” – we need a team to lead social work development. We don’t need these half baked transition to social work courses – we need properly trained social workers who know what they’re doing! The whole thing is a farce!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: PaulineSergeant

PaulineSergeant — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 15:43:12 +0000

Thanks for all you have contributed to social work over the past decade, Lyn Romeo. I’m hoping the baton is carefully passed to someone whose character and leadership capabilities will truly benefit all hard working social workers and the people we serve.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: CAG

CAG — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:59:59 +0000

In reply to Prem. How cynical and disingenuous- her main achievement in my opinion is Ito have raised the profile of adult social workers across the country and to articulate to government the values of our profession- no easy task with a succession of Tory governments. Happy retirement Lyn- enjoy?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Violet

Violet — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 13:41:36 +0000

In reply to Prem. PSW seem to have noticed positives and as we all know in social work only the opinion of 'leaders' has legitimacy. Anything the average social worker might have an opinion on is way down in the listening league as apparently we just moan and are drenched in cynicism all the time.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Prem

Prem — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:44:07 +0000

10 years in post yet achieved very little. Not sure if this role is needed.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Yeah right

Yeah right — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:46:10 +0000

“We will update on her successor in due course.”

Let’s see how transparent the recruitment process is and who the Government undemocratically cherry-pick for a 10 year ornamental tenure this time round.