极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Councils urged to join project to curb social workers’ workloads

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Julie Munro

Julie Munro — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:41:13 +0000

In reply to Martin. I agree and ask do they take into account the 1st year qfd sw's have a protected case-load? I doubt it!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 07:24:21 +0000

In reply to Charlie. Your analysis is so real, after 17 years I also stepped down and I am much happier. Case loads, complexity of cases and lack of support are at the top. Burn out and Mental health are an issue but no one cares. The mentality is others are doing it how about you.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: S G

S G — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:15:38 +0000

My caseload has never been below 30, which I was given 3 weeks into my first social work role. I’ve had as much as 63 cases. I am currently sitting on 42 cases which is creeping up again slowly but surely.

Figures are skewed for many reasons, and a major one is to do with entire families being put under an umbrella of 1 case. I had a family with 7 children and it was counted as 1, even though they all had different issues, needs, and lived in 3 different homes.

Without more funding and a major recruitment drive, this will only get worse. I’m only on year 3 of my career and I’m already considering moving on due to the workload, stress, and lack of support from managers. Increasing my medication again just to cope with the demands has seriously put a dent in my confidence.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:59:08 +0000

My caseload before I left was 35+, half of the children were on child protection. Timescales to see children on CP was every 10 days.l Children in an assessment stage had to be also seen every 10 days. CIN children every 4 works. Timescales were worshipped like a god. You’d get at least 5 angry emails by various managers on Tuesday if got forbid you missed a visit. Those Timescales caused us to be in a constant stage of burnout, buried in paperwork, as always had some visits to write up of around 70 child visits a month. On top were assessments, court work, CIN/CP meetings to hold, conferences etc. Became detrimental to my health to continue doing this job. Stepped down, work part time now, started a side hustle and I’m much happier now. I don’t believe that those proposed changes will make things easier for social workers or better for the families. In my experience, some new grand idea aleays causes more hardship for workers and families. I bet this new proposal has something to do with Rishis proposal for a smaller and more efficient publick sector. I’m worried under this caseloads will shoot up to 50+ easily

Get out as soon as possible is my soundest advice.!!! It’s not worth it. You can always find something to do to help others, but not as a LA social worker and not especially under a Tory government. Those pldo not seem to care or even like people.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Kieran Dunne CQSW

Kieran Dunne CQSW — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:35:27 +0000

Does the survey take into account a day each week on Duty or Back up Duty representing 1/5 the of the SWs working week equivealent or 1.5 cases approx?
And does it differentiate between complex and straightforward cases or siblings’ extra needs within core assessment?

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Pauline O'Reggio

Pauline O'Reggio — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:03:15 +0000

Caseloads are not 16/17 they are much higher. A social worker’s caseload could involve 2 to 3 pre-birth assessments and adoption Medical documents which are lengthy documents requiring a great deal of information.

You may have a risk assessment, parenting assessment of one or both parents, plus relatives, coupled with several child protection cases requiring reviewing of case plans. You end up working late into the evening if you are required to undertake a Section 47 investigation resulting in a child having to be placed away from the family.

Social workers have to work late into the night to prepare reports which you have not been given realistic timescales to complete. What is worrying is the documents social workers have to complete are important in respect of telling the child’s story and are documents the child may want to read at some point in their lifetime, therefore need to be well analyzed with accurate information to support the child’s plan.

Social work is now target lead and does not allow appropriate time to carry out thorough professional practice.

Then the cycle of social worker blaming begins when targets are not met. To save time you may be told to complete an assessment over the phone, this is unacceptable and should be addressed if this is what it takes to complete an assessment within the time scale.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:37:56 +0000

In teams that i work in cases are akways over 20, some have over 30, not sustainable and im training to be a social worker….not sure that anyone should have over 20.
Although money should be spent on more social workers the bottom line lies with parenting, surely we should tackle this too.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Dani

Dani — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 23:49:25 +0000

Martin that is exactly my experience as well. The senior managers know what they are doing. Ofsted could ask the workers about the number of allocated cases but they don’t want to know either- nothing to see here mentality.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:06:37 +0000

I feel 16-17 is too high anyway, given the complexities and challenges of the work, and of course the case recording and assessment writing! Glad to hear there is some movement in the right direction though 🙂

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Louise

Louise — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:00:42 +0000

Working in Early Help, the number of cases held may well be max 16, however, the number of children being worked with could well be double this for an average family of 2 adults and 2 children. Working with all family members increases the workload, along with needing Knowledge in SEN, Mental health (adults and children), specialist areas such as Housing, DA,
More and more work is for parenting, children on the SEN pathway, or with Mental health affecting with every day life, with a NHS that is unable to cope or offer these children and young people the support they need, so we act as the glue attempting to hold it all together until they’re accepted by the relevant specialists services.