Children and Families assessment 2
• 2000-word essay
• Written in third person.
• Topic: Assessment and Decision Making in Children and Families Social work.
• Choose a case study from the 3 options
• Analyse how you will respond to a request for an assessment of A, B or C or D. You need to consider your role and responsibilities to the family.
• This covers learning outcomes 1, 3, 4 and 5:
Case study
The school have contacted Social Care to share information about Sonny Berkowitz aged 7 who was found to have bruising on his back when he was changing for games this afternoon. They have asked Sonny how this happened, and he seems unclear in his explanation. He was overheard telling one of his friends a different explanation from the one he told the teacher.
It is known that things have been very difficult at home recently as his Mum arrived late to pick him up a few weeks ago and explained this as being due to a major argument with her partner.
Learning Outcome 1: Describe the range of professional roles and responsibilities undertaken by children and family’s social workers in a contemporary social, political and environmental context.
Learning Outcome 3: Outline different types of risk, harm and abuse in the context of child safeguarding policy, legislation and theory.
Learning Outcome 4: Illustrate and analyse care and control aspects of practice and principles of strength-based perspectives, anti-discriminatory practice, and working in partnership with children and their families.
Learning Outcome 5: Describe and apply evidenced based social work processes such as effective assessment, intervention, professional judgement and decision-making.
