Community Care’s second annual State of Social Work Supervision Survey finds that many social workers are going without crucial supervision. We report on the findings and look at how social work supervision can be delivered better.
Social workers reveal sluggish progress on delivering better supervision
Community Care’s State of Supervision Survey 2014 finds little progress on improving social work supervision
Our live chat on how to get the best out of supervision
The expert panel included:
Peter Hay, strategic director for people, at Birmingham City Council
Sharon Lambley, lecturer in social work at the University of Sussex
Nushra Mansuri, professional officer at the British Association of Social Workers, who qualified as a social worker in 1993
Ruth Smith, Community Care’s content director (chairing)
Find out how delegates at Community Care Live defined “good supervision”
More from Inform
Subscribers to Inform can access a series of in-depth expert guides to providing effective supervision, developing social workers’ emotional resilience and promoting reflective practice. Resources include:
Guide to effective supervision: What is it and how can supervisors ensure they provide it?
Author: Dr Hilary Lawson, teaching fellow (social work and social care), University of Sussex
Guide to developing social workers’ emotional resilience
Author: Louise Grant, senior lecturer in social work, University of Bedfordshire and registered social worker and Dr Gail Kinman, professor, occupational health psychology, University of Bedfordshire
Author: Alex Chard, director, YCTCS Ltd
Guide to compassion fatigue and secondary trauma in human services
Author: Lori Goossen, organisational development consultant, London Borough of Bexley
Guide to managing practice from a critically reflective position
Author: Mary Mustoe, social work consultant
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Infographic: What social workers think of their supervision
What the nation’s social workers told Community Care’s State of Supervision survey about the supervision they get
How supervision at Birmingham Council is an integral part of our workforce development
A feature sponsored by Birmingham City Council
Seven ways to be a better social work supervisor
Dr David Lawlor, director of the Centre for Social Work Supervision and Consultancy, picks out seven ways supervisors can deliver better social work supervision
Rethinking supervision: How Cafcass fixed its supervision
Christine Banim, national service director at Cafcass, explains what can be learned from the organisation’s approach to supervision
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I have known some social workers come out of supervision crying because they have been made to feel so little, so de skilled and incompetent, it is not how regular supervision is but the quantitative analysis which cannot be measured is something that needs to be given priority.