Having had some experience in management I fully understand that standing still for any organisation is tantamount to going backwards and going very fast backwards. There should always be a feeling amongst everyone within the organisation that we are all pulling in the same direction, that there is leadership and leadership of a good quality and all will be well for everyone, customer (or clients) the work team and those who look over use.
However there is always the exception to the rule as in Birmingham’s Children’s Services, where over 900 staff are facing the axe, some in management some social workers and those who are called “back-room staff”. Back-room staff, I ask you, these are some of the most important cogs in the wheel, typing up reports, filing away ACCURATELY case files and ensuring that those who need to be, are at case conferences when required, not beforehand and certainly not afterwards.
You may well believe I’m ranting on, however, let us not forget that Birmingham has a dire shortage of Social Workers in the field of Child Protection, that Birmingham was found wanting and the service was described by OFSTED as inadequate (page four) and that we now have a Government appointed person watching over the whole service.
With the number of children known to the service who have died in the past few years, it is a shame that what is being proposed is just a penny pinching activity just to save £62 million in this departments budget.
Now tell me I’m just ranting.
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