Issues in Current Social Work Practice in Safeguarding Children

Critical analysis on Issues relating to
Current Social Work Practice in
Safeguarding Children

Table of Contents
Results .............................................................................................................................................3
Discussion........................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

Results
Child protection needs fundamental review to tackle persistent practice problems, say
government advisers
Article by Mithran Samuel outlines that safegurdaing of children was affected because of
several problems and these problems includes Optimism Bias, weak-risk assessment and poor
information sharing. These problems were persistent and were besetting safeguarding of
children. These problems were rooted in systematic issues that include effect of poverty on
families of children and also increased workload pressures of practitioners (Mithran Samuel.
2021). In the problem that is weak risk assessment panel considered that it is highly difficult to
predict and forecast what will happen to a child in given circumstances and in certain number of
variables. Similar was the case in problem that is optimism bias.
Challenges and dilemmas working with high‐conflict families in child protection casework
As per Cecilie Sudland for social workers working towards protection of children it is
very complicated, frustrating and exhausting to work with children living in families with high
conflicts (Sudland, 2020). Parents of children who has high conflict and who live separated are
characterised through high degree of anger, distrust and difficulty in parents to communicate
about care of their children. In situation when parents live apart they also find it difficult to make
a level of compromise about residence, financial support and for daily routine of children.
Making the links between domestic violence and child safeguarding: an evidence‐based
pilot training for general practice
This article by Eszter Szilassy, Jess Drinkwater, Marianne Hester, Cath Larkins, Nicky
Stanley, William Turner, and Gene Feder works on linking domestic violence and children
safeguarding and during the research most of the clinicians established link between domestic
violence and potential harm that it represented to children. In this research however everyone not
clearly understood and had knowledge about link between domestic violence and children's
safety (Szilassy and et.al., 2017). Regarding children safety clinicians also were more engaged
with the person who has been abused in domestic violence rather than with children. In this,
needs and experience that children have had been assessed through their parents rather than
directly communicating with children.
The Trouble With Fathers: The Impact of Time and Gendered-Thinking on Working
Relationships Between Fathers and Social Workers in Child Protection Practice in England