Social Work Practice Education Home Visit/Review of assessment Example

This further resource is for supervisors and Newly Qualified Adult Social Workers. It’s an example of a review of assessment of need and offers an opportunity to reflect on the process either individually, with supervisors or in groups. This video was funded by skills for care as part of the ASYE video pilot project.

[@yah7130]

I am a current social work student and YES...we are trained to be warm caring empathetic understanding and so forth. I am not going to address the imbecile of a buffoon by their fake account name who has so much venom in their soul about social workers when she knows nothing at all. Social workers are humans and there were so many factors that lead to the failure of Baby P, and this amongst many others that were not fortunate enough to make it in the media was a learning curve that shaped the profession to what it is today. The current regulators such as Social Work England and HCPC which informs social work practices by placing guidelines, code of conduct and ethical principles ensures social workers are fit for practice by showing they can apply the core values in practice. I could really go on but i am not here to change the minds of ignorant individuals who knows nothing about the profession and what the training entails for anyone to be at the front line. I am not saying all social workers are great at their jobs because in the past they have been precisely known for negative reasons and rightly so because there were those who miserably failed. But individuals should have an open mind that it was not only the social worker who failed Baby P and many others, it was all the professionals who came into contact with him. I can assure you that social work is NOT in any shape of form how the ignorant individual is describing. Taking children away or separating families is the last resort. Maybe in some cases where parents or carers are not complying with their order and are placing their families/children at risk of significant harm, then the child/ren's well-being is the social workers paramount consideration, hence the children being taken away and placed maybe temporarily with a carer that may be an extended family member or a friend who is capable of caring for the child/ren, while the parents or families are supported and empowered to take control of their own lives. But this is always the last resort when all resources and options have been applied.

[@klashkat]

As a current social work student myself, I understand your inclination to defend the profession since most of us go into it with good intentions. At the same time, I've learned more than anything that it's important to recognize the field's flaws and acknowledge the ways social workers still do harm today. Here in Canada, social workers continue to apprehend Indigenous and racialized children at an unacceptable rate and there's no excuse for it -- it's flat out racism. While I'm admittedly not familiar with how it is in England, I don't imagine social work is all that different given that Canada's institutions emerged from Europe's. I hope you think about this a bit more and reflect on where your defensiveness comes from. I also think it'd be a good idea to consider what experiences might lead someone to write a comment like the one below. I can guarantee they come from a valid place.

[@hikaru2512]

If you are a social worker and you have a client who doesn’t talk, communicate , what would you do?

[@BryansUploads]

If the person could not verbally communicate then other forms of communication would be used such as sign language, writing, pictures etc. If the person lacked capacity such as if someone has dementia then the persons mental capacity would be assessed to find out their understanding and if the person has no insight into meeting their needs then a best interest decision would be made by family/advocate and the Social worker. All reasonable measures would be explored to ensure the best outcomes for the person maximizing independence and ensuring risks of living at home are reduced. If the person needs more support than what home care can provide then a residential/nursing home would be explored. The model in this video is the deficit model identifying peoples short falls and implementing care to meet those needs. Really social work should move to either the strengths model or the 3 conversations model. Perhaps Leeds will make a best practice around the 3 conversation model (Best Practice guide)?

[@BryansUploads]

@Mr. POPO Hiya, there can be many reasons why Social Services visit? There could have been a referral or concern raised which they have to follow up on. The best thing to do is to speak to family members and social services to find out.

[@corruptionchildrenservices8919]

Just write what you want win win for you..add a lie or 2...

[@susansmith4784]

Or tell these lying incompetent creatures to leave

[@susansmith4784]

2 or 3 .... hundreds

[@susansmith4784]

This is such a bad attempt to try and make social workers appear warm, friendly and helpful. It doesn't work, people know full well what these uncaring creatures are really like and Baby P and this peers are now paying the ultimate price

[@susansmith4784]

@@treeclarice1062 I don't agree. There were at least 11 opportunities for social workers to help Baby P, and they chose not to didn't. Social workers failed Baby P and they also failed numerous other kids who were also then killed by abusers they were left with. Fred McBride was a social worker supposed to be keeping one boy safe, he failed and that boy was also killed, Fred McBride was then moved away from Scotland and PROMOTED to Chief Executive, you couldn't make that up. Then there's the kids social workers who rip apart from loving homes to then put them with families who abuse and kill them in State supposed 'care'. There's no child protection really going on, it's a smoke screen to take kids for money. Social workers should be trained to know what abuse is, sadly they still don't know. Here we have another situation whereby IF Meghan has a real baby, it is seriously at risk with these two clowns, and social workers aren't bothered, Meghan doesn't even know how to hold that supposed 'baby', holding it like a sack of potatoes and smothering it isn't acceptable, let alone taking him to stay in a seedy joint like SoHo house. Yet again, social workers are failing

[@susansmith4784]

@@treeclarice1062 you can't justify Baby P's murder by saying 'the TEAM didn't communicate', that's a shameful cop out. They failed in their duty of care and their job is to keep kids safe. Social workers had many opportunities to help Baby P, and many other kids who were abused and killed, and chose not to on each and every 11 occasions with Baby P. They failed Baby P and numerous other young ones. Those social workers didn't loose their jobs for their significant failure either, back working as social workers to fail other young ones. Too busy looking for abuse that's not happening elsewhere? It's shameful how social workers can so casually justify such unjustifable failures that result in kids being killed that they are responsible to provide some 'care' for. Any social worker lost their job or was sent to prison for neglect? No, cover it up. Yet many innocent families still continue to permanently loose their young ones as a direct result of social worker failures today, move and promote the social workers to somewhere else where they can have yet another opportunity to neglect, harm and kill another child. Shameful

[@susansmith4784]

@@treeclarice1062 it's confired that social workers get bonuses for taking kids off families. There's enough whistleblowing social workers who have now confirmed it. Shame social workers didn't earn their bonus for keeping Baby P, and numerous others, safe

[@tbg9563]

they are evil

[@susansmith4784]

@@tbg9563 👍 These creatures have their hearts taken out and a stone put in. *Baby P, and others, missed out on these creatures having any 'interests of the child' as a priority*, just lies, lies and lies😞