I am not a social worker. But I have worked in the disability sector for a while. . I want to know the best way to make a referal and I do suspect this person might lack capacity. I made a referal but they went to visit without any information. I was told someone would phone me back. Now I am a bit put off from saying anything. I have a 6 page statement.. I do have serious concerns about her PAs behaviour, but I don't want to make the situation any worse. Please can someone offer me some advice.
It is good practice to let the referrer know the outcome of the referral that they made and if this hasn't happened with you it may be worth calling back and asking for feedback as to what the outcome of your referral was.
I have been guilty in the past on a busy day on duty of neglecting to ring a alerting support worker back. One time someone on what I deemed a relatively non urgent case got back in touch and made it very clear that they felt let down that they had not been called back. I still feel bad to this day and it really was a wake up call for me. Because I do safeguarding day in day out and it becomes very easy to forget that even if you as a worker deem it to be non urgent, that it may have been a massive step for some people to make that referral in the first place. Sometimes practitioners need reminding.
Essentially, would you rather make sure that person was safe even if afterwards it meant you felt you had overreacted or 'overstepped the mark', or leave it be and hope either you were wrong or that things don't get worse and not sleep properly for ages afterwards? I try my best never to tell people off or make them feel stupid for making what we deem 'inappropriate referrals' because the next time they might not bother to raise their concerns and that time it might really matter.
rel="nofollow">ant21 replied on Sat, Jan 14 2012 4:34 AM
Have been reading with interest. Would driving a vulnerable adult/s without a driving license be seen as abuse? Obviously I know you should check license. Well I have certainly learnt from that!! This person hadn't even passed her test. Just always had had a provisional. How would this stand up in court, especially if the person had drove a bit unusually on the motorway? Should this person be charged? Is it possible even after 17 months. Police removed her for other things, but she was never cautioned just sent on her merry way. She was not sacked after finding out, so guess it would be pretty difficult to get a conviction? And at the most I guess (for the driving) she would get 3 points off her license.
Is it license or licence? There is always the difficulty of recognising American English spellings and British English spellings with words like these. Whether we like it or not, much of our language is now heavily influenced by American English spellings. We use both forms in British English – one is a verb (doing word) and the other a noun (thing). LicenseThis is the verb ‘to license’.Examples:I license this pub. You are licensed to run this pub.The officer licenses the taxis here.LicenceThis is the noun ‘a licence’.Examples:I have a driving licence.She wants to buy a licence for her car.See also: Is it practise or practice?Certain sets of words follow group rules of English grammar. Many rules of grammar are quite mathematical, with groups of words falling into building-blocks which all act the same way. For example, the spelling rules are the same for ‘practice’, ‘licence’ and ‘advice’: the noun has a ‘c’, while the verb has an ‘s’.One way of remembering this is that the word ‘noun’ comes before the word ‘verb’ in the dictionary; likewise ‘c’ comes before ‘s’, so the nouns are ‘practice/licence/advice’ and the verbs are ‘practise/license/advise’.In fact, the confusion arises with ‘practice’ and ‘licence’ mainly because they sound the same with the ‘c’ or the ‘s’. However, with ‘advice’ and ‘advise’, there is a shift in sound, so there is no confusion at all. We can use this to our advantage: another way of knowing which to use is to replace the ‘practice’ or ‘licence’ word you want with ‘advice’ or ‘advise’ – this will tell you whether you need the ‘c’ or the ‘s’ spelling. So, in the following phrase, let’s say you are unsure which to write:I do not like this ‘practise/practice’.Replace the word you want with ‘advice’ or ‘advise’.I do not like this ‘advice’.So – you will need:I do not like this ‘practice’.Remember, whenever you have those niggling queries going around the office (like ‘where to put this apostrophe’, ‘do we use that or which; dispatch or despatch; complimentary or complementary; practise or practice’), do just simply drop us an e-mail or call.
Thought this would be useful for everyone, being as some are very pedantic about gramuh.