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It has been reported that from 1 August the Health and Care Professions Council will be expecting social workers to meet standards relevant to their area of practice. The standards can be found here . It’s a 20 page document, setting out the 15 key expectations of social workers from being able to “practise safely within their scope of practice”, to “be able to establish and maintain a safe practice environment”.
You can bet your bottom dollar that it’ll be used as a benchmark in negligence claims to challenge the quality of social work practice.
In practice, although we often find that claims might succeed where information is not shared or properly looked at in the round, as often as not the issue is not the quality of social work practice, but the lack of social workers to whom cases can be allocated.
Nazareth Care Charitable Trust which operates a care home in Bonnyrigg, Scotland, recently received a fine after a resident at one of its care homes suffered a fatal injury after falling down a flight of stairs.
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The concept of Assumption of Responsibility is on many stakeholders’ minds at the moment following the Supreme Court decision in CN & GN v Poole.
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust was sentenced on 14 June 2019 for failing to provide safe care and treatment to a 19 year old inmate being cared for on the hospital wing of Lewes Prison, Jamie Osborne.
It was announced on 15 May 2019 that “more than 120 MPs have written to the government asking for an inquiry into how family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic violence.”
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