Name: ソーシャルワークとは？子どもと家族 (What is social work? Children and families)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:37:32.000Z
Duration: 13 min 35 s
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in Tameside near Manchester, senior practitioner Liz curry is arriving for

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another day in Denton's Children's Social Work team. After starting her

career in the voluntary sector, Liz has been with the Tameside team since 2008.

Coming to Tameside because of the way that we work here we don't have a

separate duty team we don't have a second looked after team the area team

does everything and I wanted that very steep learning curve and I wanted to get

experience of all the different areas I like that style of working where you

take something right from beginning and follow it all the way through and build

up those relationships with each other and many families.

30 children on her caseload at any one time. Today's shift starts with a

voicemail from a 12 year old boy living in a children's home he's unhappy and

wants to leave. it's Liz's role to try to listen and to manage the problem - it may

mean reinforcing the boundaries the young person needs to follow.

He's struggling there at the moment because a new young person's moved into that children's home

and so he's really struggling to adjust to that. Generally when he rings

me up it's because he's not getting his own way and he's kind of hoping that I

will change whatever decision has been made

what's up, what's been happening? Now if you need some time out of that situation you

can go off down the park or whatever and then come back at an agreed time.

entirely happy with me, he did put the phone down on me I think a couple of times

which he tends to do when he doesn't hear something he wants.

to staff to work out what was happening and what rules they were putting in

place for him because equally we need to kind of support what they're doing but

make sure he understands what they're doing but also find a way out of that

situation so that he and staff aren't, you know he isn't winding them up

and getting annoyed and they're not having to manage that all morning.

With the situation stabilised, Liz will keep in close contact with the

staff and the young person to try to ensure the placement can continue but

her next case can't be dealt with over the phone she's received a referral from

another professional whilst on duty, around suspicions there's a 12 year old

boy with learning difficulties maybe involved in sexual

about that what the supervision level is for the child and also having spoken to

the child he was very clear that there's a lot of people living in the house at

the moment there's a lot of arguing going on at the moment and he's not

Liz and family support worker Paul Wayne need

to do a home visit to investigate their concerns

is to be able to sit down and have a discussion with mum and dad

about where they feel things are up to with the child at the moment and how

they think they're getting on in terms of supervising him, whether he's sticking

to boundaries - because that's been a problem in the past - we need to

establish whether not they can supervise him adequately and whether they would

understand what the risks would be of not supervising him.

and families in the community is a crucial part of their child protection work.

Ideally we don't want to do an unannounced visit as it's quite

disruptive and and rude to the people that you're visiting to just have social

workers banging on the door, but equally there's a concern that's been raised by

the agency about the child then we will do unannounced visits.

I think home visits are one of the most useful parts of the job, in terms of engaging families, in terms of

assessing and understanding what's happening I think the situation when you

get some people to come into the office and talk to you it's a totally

false situation, and you're not getting a true picture - you're just getting what

they want you to know whereas if you see them at home you're seeing and dealing

with things that they can't particularly control all the time the understanding

of what it feels like to be that child, what experiences of being parented

is this child having,  what's their life like day to day?

As with many unannounced visits it can provoke a strong reaction towards the

I went in and spoke to mum and she was...

I think she was a bit upset and she called dad in and he was

really upset, he was quite quite angry he struggled to stay in the room because he

was he was feeling quite angry so he went out but mum stayed and talked to us

she's agreed for working to spend a bit of time with him and work

out what his wishes and feelings are what his view is of what, if

With at least one parent open to support, this will ensure

the family receive the correct help to put effective supervision in place.

Back in the office, Liz rushes into a multi-agency meeting

that everyone has a lot of concerns but no one has a lot of evidence about the

concerns, so you get quite a lot of people being worried about the child and

saying things like well I think this is happening but nobody knows - youth

offending team have expressed some concerns about what's going on for this

child at the moment and and we're looking at going to look at what

information they have whether it's information we've had before or not what

It's a case Liz knows well, and despite the lack

of evidence, her experience and intuition always told her that something was not

quite right. Effective social workers need to apply

professional skepticism to cases like this.

and I have no reason to disbelieve her other than I have a feeling that she's

not telling me the truth or that she's telling me the party line but you know

if you get some parents who've got years and years of experience of working

with the system and getting rid of professionals, they're very good, and she is

very good - I'm not disputing for a second her

skills are getting rid of me she's excellent at that! I think my intuition

has held this case open actually I think we could quite easily have said

several years ago they're not engaging, let's shut it.

New police information supporting her intuition is revealed in the meeting and Liz believes

she may need to escalate the case into a formal child protection conference.

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