Analyse The Importance Of Reflection And Planning In Health And Social Care

The care planning meeting is central to social work practice with children and families; it is what children and families' social workers do more than any other single activity (except for recording), and it is through the CPM’s that recommendations are made on a daily basis about the risk, protection and welfare of children of looked after children. As a result if is vitally important that social workers reflect and engage in reflection and identify themes is part of improving and growing as a practitioner. Katy’s support worker and representative from her residential home commented that on how Katy had been settling in since her move from her foster carer’s. The support worker said that there had obviously been a ‘honeymoon period’ but this had not lasted long. The first behavioural incident happened the first Monday following the Friday that Katy was placed in the home, when Katy refused to get into a cab to go to school; one of Katy’s residential workers had to take Katy to school because she would not have gone to school if she had to …show more content…
Personal and organisational factors impact upon practitioner perceptions and work practices may contribute to errors associated with one’s own biased judgements. I believe that there were times where I let Katy’s family guide and influence my opinion due to what I believed to be there compliance with what we were proposing around contact. The Department of Education’s Knowledge and Skills for Child and Family Social Work (2014), notes that social workers should be able to recognise the risk indicators of different forms of harm to children including emotional abuse and the impact that cumulative trauma can have on children’s holistic development and I think that it was beneficial for me to reflect on the confusion and damage that this increased sporadic contact was having on