The Social Care Voices

Some social care professionals recognise the limitations of current approaches and advocate for a more compassionate and holistic strategy. Blame and shame have no place in effective social care. Rather than casting judgment, these professionals advocate for a collaborative approach that seeks to understand and address the root causes of these specific familial challenges. They recognise that families in crisis are grappling with a myriad of complex issues and that by shifting the narrative away from punitive measures there may be better outcomes.

Social worker 2

I have worked in social care for many years and have been faced with responding to many families at point of crisis. This is often when parents are at the end of the road and feel they have nowhere else to go and no more options left for them. The [...]

Social worker 1

As a social worker I have faced many issues with processes for those children who have been adopted and that after adoption services are absolutely lacking alongside specialist support for parents around trauma, managing behaviours linked with trauma. I believe anyone in the adoption process should have access to trauma [...]