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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.
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”.
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 ...
Employers rebuff union calls to increase local government pay offer
By Mithran Samuel on August 13, 2024 in Workforce. Local government employers have rebuffed union calls to increase their pay offer to staff in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for 2024-25. UNISON, Unite and the GMB wrote to employers urging “open meaningful pay talks” and an improved offer in the light of superior pay settlements handed ...
What the 'least restrictive option' means under the Mental …
Dec 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 ...
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 ...
How to identify perpetrators of domestic abuse and coercive control
Oct 2, 2017 · 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;
Safeguarding adults who have mental capacity: key principles
Dec 4, 2017 · What about an autistic individuals who have capacity but are being misled by mate crime, or social or danger awareness are impaired enough that they do not realise they are getting into detrimental situations or making poor choices, not because making poor choices is their right but because they don’t understand consequences adequately.
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 ...