Adoption Government Interviewing Social Worker 
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Agile working practices such as hotdesking are failing to meet social workers’ needs in Scotland and employers should review them, a study has concluded. Our findings (consistent over the last five years) indicate that agile working models in Scotland are failing to meet the needs of social workers.”
Community Care
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
Children who met thresholds were left waiting up to six weeks to see a social worker due to “significant, widespread and systemic” weaknesses in a council’s front door service, Ofsted has found. An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid.
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Community Care
APRIL 11, 2024
Our interview with Lord Herbert Laming is part of a new series of profiles of key figures who have shaped social work over the past five decades, to celebrate Community Care’s 50th anniversary. So the government called back Laming to review progress on child protection since his 2003 report.
Community Care
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
Our work seeks to develop innovative ways in which children and young people can digitally and safely self-refer to children’s social care, allowing them to communicate harms and experiences in real time. We recently interviewed senior managers across eight local authorities to scope their readiness for children’s digital safeguarding.
Community Care
AUGUST 4, 2023
Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. One local authority-employed social worker said: The view of the public is that social workers are incompetent.
Community Care
DECEMBER 2, 2022
The council came under government intervention in 2019 after an inspection found children were not being protected, cases were being “inappropriately closed” and leaders did not understand the extent of the failings. Boost to social worker numbers despite funding constraints helps council improve Ofsted grade.
Community Care
MARCH 31, 2022
Not worth the paper they are written on’; ‘lack teeth’; ‘thresholds confusing’ – these are just some of the comments made by social workers and other professionals in a national study of supervision orders supporting family reunification in 2019. By Professor Judith Harwin and Lily Golding. Related articles.
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