极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Social worker who was ‘desensitised’ to family’s unsafe home conditions suspended

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: David David

David David — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:30:01 +0000

Question: if the assessment was 18 months overdue, how were the children “under child protection plans due to neglect concerns”? What was being assessed if the children were already on CP plans?
Question: the HCPC relies on manager’s supervision notes to say that the SW never raised the question of a high caseload as an issue. However, this is the same manager that allegedly failed to flag up the fact that the assessment was 18 months overdue. So, how can anyone rely on that manager’s supervision notes?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kashawna Taylor

Kashawna Taylor — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 08:23:51 +0000

I’m studying to be a social worker at the moment. I don’t see why there is so much hostility towards the HCPC. We are taught that it is there to protect us as well as provide transparency around our profession. I am being naive then ?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:35:01 +0000

Social Worker not completing core assessment within 12 weeks is fairly unforgivable but Manager not noticing & doing something about it by week 13 is even moreso.

We only know a tiny bit about this case – we don’t, for example, know when the ceiling fell down, whether the landlord was in process of fixing it or whether the family (and social worker) had been afraid to complain about it for fear of generating a revenge eviction. We don’t know whether the mother was corectly reporting that SW didn’t look in bedrooms or was unaware that the SW did in fact do so, nor whether she had been told many times by her SW ‘I am not your friend, I am your worst enemy’ but just didn’t have the same command of linguistic subtitles as the (presumably) universiey educated dudes on the hcpc and we don’t know whether the SW was consciously and productively steering a careful path down the narrow road between making it possible for some sort of loving & caring relationship between children and (at least one) parent to be maintained despite severe poverty or one one hand & on the other tearing all asunder by having the children taken into care to be separated from each other as well as from their parents and friends. I could go on…

What we do know however is that taking children into ‘Care’ is not and can not be a standard national solution to poverty – there are not enough foster carers.

We also know that the hcpc love to blame social workers rather than address the systemic & societal problems because they have to be seen to do ‘something’ and that is what they find easiest.

And we know that the latter has the potential to do far more harm than one social worker falling below her own normal standards in one case.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Henrietta Coker

Henrietta Coker — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 06:50:05 +0000

The thing about this is how much were the living conditions directly a consequence of parental inaction? Did the parents live in poor private housing? Were the repairs reported? How affective are rules to enforce repairs?
It is perhaps wrong not to see this within a climate of reduced social housing, many families such as those who are in the country illegally are locked out of decent housing by rules preventing landlords from renting to them.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Peter Palladas

Peter Palladas — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:22:59 +0000

In reply to Andrew.

My thoughts as well. With electronic recording there is simply no excusing a system – or the people who use the system – that does not red flag seriously overdue assessments. If that information wasn’t available to inform supervision sessions in advance then it should have been, and if it was, but not used, then I suggest the manager is at least as culpable as the social worker.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 22:04:52 +0000

In reply to Andrew. My thoughts exactly!!!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:54:00 +0000

In reply to Sandra. Ive been a social worker through a number of successive governments, labour was as bad as conservative !

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:51:41 +0000

I would love to see a time and motion study of the social work task… 35 cases… Assuming the sw works full time that’s approx 1 hour per child per week. How much can anyone achieve in that amount of time? the travel to and from a visit generally takes that long. I would love to see see anyone do a better job with the time and resources available. When will the HCPC start protecting the social workers who fund their pay? It’s about time local authorities are taken to task for the unreasonable expectations put on workers, perhaps then they will be able to better protect children… Rant over !

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:50:52 +0000

In reply to Chris Mills.

What happened to the manager and service manager who would have known this core assessment was due 18 months prior. Some concern raised there I see none. Where’s the council or housing dept mention of what they had done.. don’t we talk working together?

And if there was a cooker who’s to say they would have used it? Half my clients would use take outs of microwave meals

I’m not saying dromnthe sounds these kids had it bad it sounds horrific to be honest. Busy some questions need asking by the TM and LA for along a core assessment to be 18 months plus a case load of 30-34. Come on HCPC. Go be a Sw and hold that same – it’s a joke

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:38:20 +0000

Another example why I got out of social work last year. I never had supervision for 7 months. It seems the HCPC look at what they are told rather then what the bigger picture is. It is apart of the hcpc guidelines to have regular supervision but yet this gets missed.