Social Work Case Study: Children's Health And Social Care

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Case study Maria is a forty nine years old woman. She has four children who have been taken into care at an early age. Maria is trying to have a relationship with one of her eldest daughter. However, she finds it difficult at some times. She suffers from schizophrenia and has milder learning disabilities. Maria is on Community Treatment Order, and lives on supported accommodation. Maria can exchange sex for cigarettes if allowed to go in the community alone and verbally talk, with limited. She can not control her food and drinks intake and needs supervision in this area. She is over weight. Scenario Maria told staff that she needs help to build a relationship with her four children. Maria feels that she is deprived of her…show more content…
Concern about child protection has grown, which led to the requirement of cooperation between a range of services that deals with children and their professionals particularly hospital paediatrics, community child health, education and social services. Compared with other countries Britain has adopted an exceptionally legally based form of intervention and this has drawn in the police and the court. Coordination of services and shared decision-making has become crucial and most of the services described above have become involved, at least in assessment if not treatment (Payne 2000). The idea, and practice of interprofessional working in health and social care is certainly not new, but has had considerable and consistent emphasis from the government over the last decades. Its importance is stressed in many contexts. Multiprofessinals bring together skills, sharing information, achieving continuity of care, apportioning and ensuring accountability and responsibility, coordination in planning resources, and coordination in delivering resources for professionals to apply for the benefit of service…show more content…
The murder of Steven Hoskin (2007) also identifies significant failings in interprofessinals (Flynn 2007). Laming (2009) states that it is not just professionals working in adult services or in children services that should work together but, professionals should work together across children and adult services. Because after all children live in families with adults and difficulties and difficult encountered by one will invariably impact on the other. Laming (2009) reminds us of some striking statistics. It states that in the UK at least 200,000 children live in household where there is a known high risk case of domestic abuse and violence, with very many more affected at some point. Approximately 450.000 parents are estimated to have mental health problems and an estimated 2500.00 children have parents who are problematic drug

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