Help please! What key changes are currently happening or being considered to the social work profession and how do you think it will impact your social work career?

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SirBobDylan Posted: 11 Jan 2012 3:43 PM

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I have to write an essay about this for my interview, help please

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swsoutheast replied on 12 Jan 2012 6:51 PM

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Adults? Children services  or both?

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SirBobDylan replied on 12 Jan 2012 6:57 PM

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 Both

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bagheera444 replied on 13 Jan 2012 8:47 AM

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Hi,

Consider the new Health and Social care Bill passing through parliament as we speak.  The proposed seting of  health and welfare boards is going to impact on all of  us working in either  health or social care settings. How that looks is still being determined, so professionally there is some uncertainty about where i will be practising in a few years.

Andrew Langsley the current health minister  is keen to see  a major overhaul (my view), and his decisions will no doubt impact on the development of the social work profession and trickle down to local areas which in turn could see me being line managed by a health mananger and not social work managed as one small example.

Regards

Bagheera444

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Khitan replied on 13 Jan 2012 12:04 PM

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The potential externalisation of social work/care management functions in both adult & children services.

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oab replied on 16 Jan 2012 11:12 AM

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I agree with Khitan, but I think it is forgone conclusion that the majority of services , both children and adult will be removed from LA control, and eventually be in the hands of the private sector, apart from stat work, like child protection, sorry to sound so negative, but the cards look to be falling that way.

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romeo2001 replied on 16 Jan 2012 6:12 PM

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probably expect some arawreness of the change in registration to the hpc and your thoughts

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Silver Sage replied on 17 Jan 2012 12:27 PM

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SirBobDylan:

I have to write an essay about this for my interview, help please

Well Sir Bob ; I thought you already knew?

The order is rapidly fading

And you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a'changing

And the riot squads are restless

They need some place to go

As lady and I look out tonight

On Desolation Row

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind...the answer...........................

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Alladultsarepapertigers replied on 17 Jan 2012 12:38 PM

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You could say that social work  is similar to how the fans viewed Bob Dylans shift from accoustic folk to electric folk...

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Silver Sage replied on 17 Jan 2012 12:52 PM

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Yes....but perhaps with the exception that he did a whole catalogue  of good stuff after he "went electric". ( by which I suppose we really mean he stopped solely accompanying himself and used a range of backing musicians both electric and accoustic...eg the violin on the "Blood on the tracks " and Exile on Mainstreet" era)

So..should we stop protesting and embrace the purging/regenerative destruction of the metaphorical forest fire of policy and resource reversal?

Hmm....the essay is forming!!

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geophid replied on 26 Jan 2012 3:57 PM

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I have the same question to answer! 

Found this site really helpful with articles and the department of health website. 

Just wondered if you found any other reliable sites? 

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carer1 replied on 27 Jan 2012 10:36 AM

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Trouble is virtually everything that goes on affects social workers directly or our service users!  Get on SW Reform Board website for their products re SW education (degree and PQ), Assessed and Supported First Year in Employment (ASYE), placements, supervision, Professional Capabilities Framework, employment standards and workforce planning.  Cuts are affecting SWs directly with redundancies, cuts in salary, car allowances, etc and difficulty many newly qualified SWs are having finding that first SW post..  And of course the advent of the College of Social Work and the ongoing existence of the org that does most of what the College plans to do and which hopes still to be part of it - BASW.  (I work for BASW).   Registration - GSCC to HPC.  Changes in the inspectorates, CQC and Ofsted and the way they assess affect the way we work too.

Some fairly random thoughts about the rest. .  Adults - Dilnot, Law Commission review of adult social care law and forthcoming adult social care white paper (March, April), general angst over cuts but also longterm costs of care when demand is increasing over next decades (chuck in some demographic thoughts about numbers of older people living longer, etc), adult safeguarding becoming a bigger issue, personalisation (Putting People FIrst), Approved SW role giving way to Approved Mental Health Professional, integration with Health.  Children's - Munro, Family Justice Review, adoption review and Martiin Narey as 'adoption tsar', recent payments to children not taken into care, increase in referrals since Baby P and neglect of neglect (recent coverage of Action for Children report).  Criminal justice (SWs work there too) - restraint in young offender places and possible mass suing of Min of Justice by children and young people wrongfully restrained, prison population booming, draconian punishments after riots.   General society (which impacts on social work) - the riots, welfare reforms (ie cuts) affecting people with disabilities, Housing Benefit claimants, happiness of young people survey.

Hope this helps!  Ruth Cartwright. 

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carer1 replied on 27 Jan 2012 10:39 AM

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Forgot to add as per oab - emergence of SW Practices and severing of direct employment  links with local authorities.  In England over 70% of us work for the Council, but there are increasing numbers of independent Sws.