Top tips on managing professional boundaries in social work
WEBJun 19, 2017 · Self-disclosure. Information about yourself and your personal life should not be disclosed to clients. Dual relationships. You should not hold more than one type of relationship with a client, for example, they cannot work for you, be a family member or receive extra private support from you, as well as be one of your clients.
Baby P 10 years on: social work’s story - Community Care
WEBAug 3, 2017 · The ‘Baby P effect’. The impact was felt across the frontline. Sarah, a children’s social worker, was working in a child protection team in England when the Baby P furore hit its peak. She remembers referrals flooding in as other agencies classed more cases as child protection, terrified of missing “another Baby P”.
How can social workers tackle unconscious bias? - Community Care
WEBJan 5, 2015 · How to tackle unconscious bias. Here are some of the practices that enable practitioners to avoid or tackle unconscious biases. Firstly, one thing that can be done right now is to be willing to examine our own practice by questioning ourselves with a ‘beginner’s mind’ – a childlike (non-judgmental) curiosity. When we are willing to ...
What the 'least restrictive option' means under the Mental …
WEBDec 18, 2012 · When professionals talk about using the “least restrictive option” when working with service users who are deemed to lack capacity to make particular decisions, some can worry that this means letting them do whatever they want even if it puts them at risk. This confusion makes it clear how important it is that we all work within the Mental ...
How to identify perpetrators of domestic abuse and coercive control
WEBOct 2, 2017 · Gender symmetry debates seem to have some other consequences too. I have no doubt (having worked in the area for many years) that it is predominantly men being abusive to women (particularly where lethal and serious violence, sexual violence, and abuse that leads to longer term psychological and emotional problems are concerned) , but in social work we simply don’t know enough about what ...
Guide to mental capacity assessments - Community Care
WEBCapacity assessments should only be conducted if people are having difficulty understanding or making decisions, but 38% of professionals were doing them purely because of service users’ disability or illness. A further 25% assessed capacity because they thought the person was making a bad choice, contravening another principle of the act.
Strengths-based questions for social work assessments
WEBNov 27, 2017 · She also suggests that framing questions with words like ‘tell me’, ‘explain’, and ‘describe’ is good policy in many assessment situations, not just safeguarding. It takes practice and confidence to be good at asking questions. As Graybeal (2001, p241) says, “learning to ask questions that open up possibilities is an art form that ...
The seven things that providers must report to CQC
WEBAug 10, 2011 · 1 Abuse or allegations of abuse. Providers must tell the CQC of any allegations of abuse in their service. This requirement is tied to the need for providers to ensure they are safeguarding their service users. The regulator’s essential standards of quality and safety say only that allegations must be reported to the “appropriate authority ...
Tools social workers can use to talk to children
WEBResources. The ADAM project. NCB Resource Pack: Communicating with children: A two-way process . Authors. David Shemmings is professor of social work at Kent University, Yvonne Shemmings is an independent child protection consultant and trainer, Yvalia Febrer is a social worker formerly of Hounslow and now at Richmond’s children and families team, Alice Cook is a senior family support worker ...
10 years on from Winterbourne View: lessons for social workers
WEBJun 11, 2021 · By Jack Skinner and Claire Webster. Ten years ago, BBC Panorama exposed the horrific abuse that staff at Winterbourne View hospital had inflicted on people with learning disabilities who were supposed to be receiving assessment, treatment and rehabilitation. A police investigation lead to 11 criminal convictions, a national outcry and a …
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