'Our culture of focusing on children's needs and outcomes comes from the very top'
Source: pexels/RF_Studio Swindon Borough Council’s senior leaders encourage social workers to contribute and shape improvements in their practice and to their working environment. As a result, more practitioners are going permanent “I’ve worked in other local authorities where it has been so much about the numbers and the processes, that sometimes children get lost,” Amy says. “But in Swindon, the focus is definitely on the child.” This was among the reasons Amy, a social worker in Swindon Borough Council’s assessment and child protection team, made the decision to become perma...
Source: communitycare.co.uk