Sheriff slams social work for 'fundamental failures'
Hamish Hutchinson • Published 14 Jun 2012 08:00
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SOCIAL workers are having to meet families in fast food restaurants to discuss child care issues due to a lack of facilities, a report has revealed.
The independent review into long-term child care said social workers felt "demoralised" at having to focus on finding venues.
It was one of several criticisms of the department in a review commissioned by Clackmannanshire Council in the wake of a damning court judgment.
The review revealed that eight months after Sheriff David Mackie (pictured) slammed the department for "fundamental systemic failures" concerns remained.
Full story in the Alloa & Hillfoots Advertiser, Wednesday 13 June 2012
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Failed_Parent
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Jun 14, 17:32
Report commentIt's appalling how the Chief Social Work Officer Deirdre Cilliers remains in her Teflon coated tower while middle managers are suspended. Surely her position is untenable as she is ultimately responsible for what happened in social work during her watch.
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BbBlair
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Jun 15, 01:40
Report commentfinally a decent sheriff that sees exactly what gawn on rather than them getting wool pulled over their eyes.
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muchado
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Jun 15, 10:54
Report commentIf social workers stopped blaming everyone else for their failures and examined themselves, perhaps they'd find that the failures alluded to weren't so much caused by external factors but rather by their own inadequacies! Recent history is littered with some catastrophic "social work" failings, it's time they stopped bleating about being the victims in everything that goes wrong with their work and started accepting some of the blame, for starters, they could maybe waken up & smell the coffee in terms of reality and the fact that the reality of everyday life can't be determined through the pages of some arty-farty liberal-left teaching!
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lespaul
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Jun 16, 12:43
Report commentFrom the actual report to council the head of social work writes, "There are also some findings that we need to examine carefully to gain a greater understanding of the dynamic within the service. For example, why it is that some practitioners stopped undertaking certain required tasks such as risk assessments, even though they had previously been working to a higher / better standard of practice"
Please excuse my ignorance in such matters, but is that not why you are paid £80k a year to know???? If the head of Social work doesn't know the 'dynamics' of her own service, or what the practitioners are doing, she should be sacked!
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