Comments on: The quality of social services in the UK http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-quality-of-social-services-in-the-uk/ Exploring social science research Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: School of Social Work http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-quality-of-social-services-in-the-uk/#comment-258 School of Social Work Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:03:36 +0000 http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/?p=143#comment-258 Well, This is nice post and I get good knowledge from here about social service education and I would like to say Thanks for that ! I would also like to say thanks to Heather because he provides good links from where I can college more information about it. It is very useful for me to prepare my finale term exam Thanks to you Both ! :) Well, This is nice post and I get good knowledge from here about social service education and I would like to say Thanks for that !

I would also like to say thanks to Heather because he provides good links from where I can college more information about it. It is very useful for me to prepare my finale term exam

Thanks to you Both !

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]]> By: IBSS2008 http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-quality-of-social-services-in-the-uk/#comment-112 IBSS2008 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:56:40 +0000 http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/?p=143#comment-112 Daddy X’s comments underline the complexities of seeking safety for children and justice for parents. There is so much to say on the subject, but a couple of articles seem particularly relevant to me. Searching again on IBSS I found the article ‘Omnipotence in child protection: making room for ambivalence’ (Journal of social work practice, 2008). Here Linda Davies examines how ‘the mandate to detect and prevent child abuse in child protection systems in North America distorts relationships between social workers and the mothers they work with. Drawing on psychoanalytic ideas from Melanie Klein, I will suggest this premise is unworkable and results in an anxious and punitive organization that fails both workers and clients. ’ And on the same day there was an article ‘Lessons learnt, boxes ticked, families ignored’ by Eileen Munro of LSE in the Independent (18 November 2008) http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/eileen-munro-lessons-learnt-boxes-ticked-families-ignored-1020508.html emphasizing the problems of regulation versus the real understanding of family problems: ‘We can improve childcare only by forming relationships and working with parents. The organisation needs to be centred on supporting that human contact with the family. Instead, what we have now are organisations centred on feeding the Government's ever-growing appetite for hard data at the expense of the complex and subtle information social workers actually need to form a realistic assessment of child welfare.’ Daddy X’s comments underline the complexities of seeking safety for children and justice for parents. There is so much to say on the subject, but a couple of articles seem particularly relevant to me.

Searching again on IBSS I found the article ‘Omnipotence in child protection: making room for ambivalence’ (Journal of social work practice, 2008). Here Linda Davies examines how ‘the mandate to detect and prevent child abuse in child protection systems in North America distorts relationships between social workers and the mothers they work with. Drawing on psychoanalytic ideas from Melanie Klein, I will suggest this premise is unworkable and results in an anxious and punitive organization that fails both workers and clients. ’

And on the same day there was an article ‘Lessons learnt, boxes ticked, families ignored’ by Eileen Munro of LSE in the Independent (18 November 2008) http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/eileen-munro-lessons-learnt-boxes-ticked-families-ignored-1020508.html emphasizing the problems of regulation versus the real understanding of family problems: ‘We can improve childcare only by forming relationships and working with parents. The organisation needs to be centred on supporting that human contact with the family. Instead, what we have now are organisations centred on feeding the Government’s ever-growing appetite for hard data at the expense of the complex and subtle information social workers actually need to form a realistic assessment of child welfare.’

]]> By: Heather http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-quality-of-social-services-in-the-uk/#comment-111 Heather Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:46:35 +0000 http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/?p=143#comment-111 A number of free resource son this topic can also be found via intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/ the original Victoria climbie enquiry report published in 2003 is at http://www.victoria-climbie-inquiry.org.uk/index.htm The BBC website also has a useful summary and comment at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2002/victoria_climbie_inquiry/default.stm The every child matters website was set up by the government in the wake of the enquiry and include legislation, news, and full text policy papers on the issues http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/ In october 2008 the Audit commission published the report Are we there yet? Improving governance and resource management in children's trusts which discusses the effectiveness in management of childrens trusts http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/Products/NATIONAL-REPORT/17AEBDA5-657E-4ef7-80BB-92214D4C04FF/AreWeThereYet29Oct08REP.pdf&handle=20081030-09491133 finally a site i would really recommend is social care online maintained by SCIE it gives free acces to abstracts, articles and papers covering all aspects of social care and welfare. http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/default.asp A number of free resource son this topic can also be found via intute http://www.intute.ac.uk/
the original Victoria climbie enquiry report published in 2003 is at http://www.victoria-climbie-inquiry.org.uk/index.htm
The BBC website also has a useful summary and comment at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2002/victoria_climbie_inquiry/default.stm
The every child matters website was set up by the government in the wake of the enquiry and include legislation, news, and full text policy papers on the issues http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/
In october 2008 the Audit commission published the report Are we there yet? Improving governance and resource management in children’s trusts which discusses the effectiveness in management of childrens trusts
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/Products/NATIONAL-REPORT/17AEBDA5-657E-4ef7-80BB-92214D4C04FF/AreWeThereYet29Oct08REP.pdf&handle=20081030-09491133
finally a site i would really recommend is social care online maintained by SCIE it gives free acces to abstracts, articles and papers covering all aspects of social care and welfare. http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/default.asp

]]> By: Daddy X http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/the-quality-of-social-services-in-the-uk/#comment-110 Daddy X Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:19:33 +0000 http://ibssblog.wordpress.com/?p=143#comment-110 Very good point. There is the other side of the coin though. There are parents like myself, who have had their children taken from them, when all they needed was proper support. You jump through hoops do everything they ask you to do, and they still will not return the children to your care. Not only this but they then tell you, the children are in permnanent care until they are eighteen. This is really a sad state of affairs. Every day I try and get the message out. Somebody has to listen NOW Very good point.

There is the other side of the coin though. There are parents like myself, who have had their children taken from them, when all they needed was proper support.

You jump through hoops do everything they ask you to do, and they still will not return the children to your care. Not only this but they then tell you, the children are in permnanent care until they are eighteen. This is really a sad state of affairs. Every day I try and get the message out. Somebody has to listen NOW

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