Well it's a top time to do your social work law essay apparently.
She is in sight of finishing and we are a week off being all silly and going away again.
Today has been a bit of a day, little D who has Beckers Muscular Dystrophy has fallen over 3 times in the last 2 days, turns out this is most likely a feature of his BMD. Boy do we need this as he has low bone density so even quite minor falls can break bones, and I think the mood is best summed by the child protection worker who fills in at the youth club and his general terror in the fact that D had fallen over.
He would not want the information about what had happened to D landing in his desk, a serious investigation would surely follow.
So back we go to full on high risk working.
Had a student here today to add to the drama, not THE student A student doing task focused work with D. I have to make allowances, she is a student, can I expect her to hear the subtleties and nuances?
Probably not, she has to learn stuff like that. Then again, she is a student so she is here to learn.
So she was keen to have "expert" and "professional" guidance with a very clear supposition that I was neither. It was galling that I had just got off the phone to a GP who it became very clear very quickly knew precisely bugger all about BMD but this student wanted to know what they advised as it was clearly more valid than any comments I might make.
Hmmmm so having this young person here for lots of years makes our experience worth less than her expert view formed on a couple of hours over a few months. This is not her, it's a culture inculcated by her training.
It's also fear and uncertainty, she does not really know so she has to pretend to know.
I have to write a review of her placement, how will I deal with that one then.....
Ideas any one?
R
She is in sight of finishing and we are a week off being all silly and going away again.
Today has been a bit of a day, little D who has Beckers Muscular Dystrophy has fallen over 3 times in the last 2 days, turns out this is most likely a feature of his BMD. Boy do we need this as he has low bone density so even quite minor falls can break bones, and I think the mood is best summed by the child protection worker who fills in at the youth club and his general terror in the fact that D had fallen over.
He would not want the information about what had happened to D landing in his desk, a serious investigation would surely follow.
So back we go to full on high risk working.
Had a student here today to add to the drama, not THE student A student doing task focused work with D. I have to make allowances, she is a student, can I expect her to hear the subtleties and nuances?
Probably not, she has to learn stuff like that. Then again, she is a student so she is here to learn.
So she was keen to have "expert" and "professional" guidance with a very clear supposition that I was neither. It was galling that I had just got off the phone to a GP who it became very clear very quickly knew precisely bugger all about BMD but this student wanted to know what they advised as it was clearly more valid than any comments I might make.
Hmmmm so having this young person here for lots of years makes our experience worth less than her expert view formed on a couple of hours over a few months. This is not her, it's a culture inculcated by her training.
It's also fear and uncertainty, she does not really know so she has to pretend to know.
I have to write a review of her placement, how will I deal with that one then.....
Ideas any one?
R
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Treating foster carers like numpties is awful.
How can it change?
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