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Top tips on managing professional boundaries in social work
Jun 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.
One-page profiles: what they are and how to use them
Mar 26, 2018 · One-page profiles are a great person-centred involvement technique; their simplicity belies their potential for radically transforming negative views about disabled children and young people. The positivity shining out from an effective one-page profile serves to give the sense of the child or young person being fully human.
Baby P 10 years on: social work’s story - Community Care
Aug 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”.
Safeguarding adults enquiries: do you need consent?
Jan 23, 2024 · As you see from this quote, involving the person in the safeguarding adults enquiry is not the same as requiring the person’s consent to undertake the enquiry. This is because local authorities ‘must’ undertake a safeguarding enquiry where the requirements of section 42 (1) of the Care Act are met. We do not require the person’s consent ...
What is systemic practice? - Community Care
Apr 30, 2018 · What is a systemic approach? This is a way of acting, thinking and viewing the world, which focuses on relationships and recognises that individuals are always embedded in their social context. Over time, relationship patterns both enable and limit processes of development and change. In practice, this means that problems in families are always ...
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Providing written evidence to the Court of Protection: key advice
Jun 13, 2018 · A witness statement is one of the primary pieces of evidence that can be submitted to the court, as it is the solemn testimony of an individual directly involved in the case. When you are asked to prepare a witness statement, this is likely to be: To support the application; and. When a full hearing is to take place, at various points ...
Building a direct work toolkit - Community Care
Sep 27, 2018 · Book your place at the Community Care skills workshop on Tuesday 9th October in London. Chantal, Lauren, Miriam and Sarah will be running a session sharing how the tools described in this article and others in their toolkit have improved their work with children. Other sessions on the day will cover: Find the full programme, details of sessions ...
Unions agree to accept local government pay deal
Nov 1, 2023 · The road to the pay deal. The agreement comes nine months after the unions lodged their claim for 12.7% – at a time of inflation in excess of 10% – to be met, in February 2023, with what the NJC employers said was their “full and final” offer.. This is the deal that the unions have now accepted. However, the spring and summer saw UNISON ballot its members on taking industrial action ...