“Assessment Is a Crucial Responsibility for Social Workers in All Settings”
“Assessment is a crucial responsibility for Social workers in all settings”
What is an assessment?
“An assessment involves discussions with staff from social work, health or housing. The purpose is to look at what your needs are and how best these needs can be met.” (www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Care_Support)
I intend to look at the assessment aspect of Children within Social work. Social workers cover a vast field but it is without doubt one of the most common and work providing areas involve working directly with children. Therefore it is essential that the child at all times is the Social workers number one priority.
Social work assessment and intervention are core skills for qualified social workers and fundamental learning requirements for trainee/student social workers. These skills have relevance to the Human Rights Act and featured in recent guidance on practice competencies and the latest occupational standards guidance for the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services.
Social workers work in a large range of settings with children/young people and families/carers. The most high-profile is child protection work, mainly in local authorities, but there are lots of other social work services, many provided in the Voluntary and Community sector.
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well¬being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. A historic and defining feature of social work is the profession’s focus on individual well¬being in a social context and the well¬being of society. Fundamental to social work is attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living.
Social workers promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients. “Clients” is used inclusively to refer to individuals, families, groups,
What is an assessment?
“An assessment involves discussions with staff from social work, health or housing. The purpose is to look at what your needs are and how best these needs can be met.” (www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Care_Support)
I intend to look at the assessment aspect of Children within Social work. Social workers cover a vast field but it is without doubt one of the most common and work providing areas involve working directly with children. Therefore it is essential that the child at all times is the Social workers number one priority.
Social work assessment and intervention are core skills for qualified social workers and fundamental learning requirements for trainee/student social workers. These skills have relevance to the Human Rights Act and featured in recent guidance on practice competencies and the latest occupational standards guidance for the Training Organisation for Personal Social Services.
Social workers work in a large range of settings with children/young people and families/carers. The most high-profile is child protection work, mainly in local authorities, but there are lots of other social work services, many provided in the Voluntary and Community sector.
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well¬being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. A historic and defining feature of social work is the profession’s focus on individual well¬being in a social context and the well¬being of society. Fundamental to social work is attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living.
Social workers promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients. “Clients” is used inclusively to refer to individuals, families, groups,
References: NASW website http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Care_Support http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/ Books: Children Act Handbook 07/08 (Hershman & Mc Farlane) Children Law and Practice (Hershman & Mc Farlane) The Child As Client (King & Young) Family Law in Northern Ireland (O’Halloran) Words: 2,804