Courtroom and Report Writing Skills for Social Workers by Clare Seymour Richard Seymour

Author:Clare Seymour, Richard Seymour [Clare Seymour, Richard Seymour]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857254092
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Publisher: Learning Matters
Published: 2011-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

RESEARCH SUMMARY

A review of the Integrated Children’s System (Shaw et al., 2009) found that social workers considered templates ‘prescriptive, repetitive, bitty and inclined to divide the story into chunks which were difficult to follow’. Specific problems identified were inaccuracy, duplication, reluctance to record information which did not seem relevant at the time, and failure to record dates or return to gaps if information became known subsequently. Some given categories were thought insufficiently precise (for example, ‘mental health difficulties’), standard headings lacked flexibility, certain terminology was considered offensive (such as ‘parenting capacity’) and the forms were often felt to be too complex to be shared with service users.

‘You don’t get a picture of the child and their needs. It is lost in all these questions and jargon.’

(Social worker)

Overall, it was thought that the system tended to promote ‘classified, repetitive and disconnected description’ at the expense of ‘coherent and specific analysis’, and it was suggested that evidence presented within ICS frameworks was not well-received by courts or multidisciplinary arenas.

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