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Top tips on managing professional boundaries in social work
网页2017年6月19日 · 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.
Partnership working with families is key to safeguarding children's ...
网页2022年1月5日 · Partnership working allows for practitioners and families to develop a relationship. It enables practitioners to get to know the family, to provide high support and yes, high challenge. The collapse in early support and preventative services, the turnover of social workers, and high reliance on temporary agency staff have consequences.
Personalisation - Community Care
网页2008年8月7日 · Personalisation is a social care approach described by the Department of Health as meaning that “every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support in all care settings”.. While it is often associated with direct payments and personal budgets, under which service users can choose the ...
Baby P 10 years on: social work’s story - Community Care
网页2017年8月3日 · 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”.
The seven things that providers must report to CQC
网页2011年8月10日 · 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 ...
What the 'least restrictive option' means under the Mental …
网页2012年12月18日 · 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 ...
Strengths-based questions for social work assessments
网页2017年11月27日 · 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 ...
How to identify perpetrators of domestic abuse and coercive control
网页2017年10月2日 · To identify who is doing what to whom, with what consequences and in what context, in order to understand who is the perpetrator and who is the victim and tailor responses appropriately, practitioners need to look at as many of the following as possible: injuries and whether they could have been caused in self-defence; fear and coercive control;
Providing written evidence to the Court of Protection: key advice
网页2018年6月13日 · 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 ...