L2. Understand How Various Factors Influence the Communication Process in Health and Social Care

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A social worker's role is to provide support to societies most vulnerable people as well as helping them deal with some of the issues they may face. As a social worker, I'm accountable to service users, colleagues, local and national authorities and other. My duty includes assessing an individual's needs, offer them support, ensure their safety and many more. A social worker is required to have knowledge and experience about vulnerable people and how to deal with them. When dealing with vulnerable people, it is important for me as a social worker to use the theories of human development and constantly update my skills, training and CPD. I was allocated the task of investigating the case of Rio Ross, a 14 month old child who died of a drugs overdose. I will carry out a risk assessment on Sabrina to analyse the danger she posses to Rio, her unborn child and herself. My responsibility would be to find a way of getting the drugs away from both child and mother and making sure she's supervised when taking methadone as that will also protect her unborn child. The dilemma faced in such a situation is to whether or not to take the child away from the mother. Despite me not being a fan of separating a child from a mother , in this case it's in the best interest of the child to be taken away from the mother as her constant drug use poses a serious threat to the Childs well being. The fact that Sabrina is using illegal drugs, taking legal drugs unsupervised while pregnant and she was found at the scene of a drugs raid with Rio arises concern about the child's wellbeing. This is why it would be in the child's best interest to be taken away from her although it will cause emotional harm to her. As a social worker I work with various people that encounter a number of people with many different social problems including disabilities; illness; mental problems and many more.
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