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Caseloads have got less manageable for children’s social workers under Covid, survey finds
Community Care survey also puts average caseloads 50% higher than DfE estimate, as social work leaders warn of practitioners being pushed to exhaustion by workloads
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Over three-quarters of statutory children’s social workers in England are struggling with their caseloads, and the situation has got worse over the course of the pandemic, research suggests.
Seventy nine per cent of respondents to Community Care’s annual caseloads survey, carried out last month, said their caseloads were either “completely unmanageable” (23%) or “hard to manage” (56%). This is up from 72% in our poll last year, carried out on the eve of the pandemic. Just over 800 children’s practitioners responded to the 2021 survey, all of whom work for English local authorities or children’s services trusts
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‘An inspirational social work leader’: tributes paid to children’s director who died after contracting Covid
Nottingham director Helen Blackman, who died last week, described by colleagues as “a passionate champion for children and young people”
Helen Blackman, Nottingham s former director of children s services
Tributes have been paid to Nottingham council’s director of children’s services Helen Blackman, who died last week after contracting Covid-19.
Blackman, who was 54, was described by colleagues as “an inspirational social work leader” and “passionate champion for children and young people”.
She qualified as a social worker in 1989, working for Nottinghamshire council in child protection, children in care and adoption services, before moving to Nottingham in 1998.
Strong return to
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