Social Care provided by Children’s Resource Centres (CRCs)
About social workers:
Social workers help people function the best
way they can in their environment, deal with their relationships
and solve personal and family problems. Social workers often
see clients who face life threatening disease or a social problem,
such as inadequate housing, unemployment, a serious illness, a
disability, or substance abuse.
Social workers also assist families that have
serious domestic conflicts, sometimes involving child or spousal
abuse.
Social worker provide assistance to improve
the social and psychological functioning of children and their
families and to maximise the family well-being and academic
functioning of children. Some social workers assist:
- single parents
- arrange adoptions
- help find foster homes (for neglected,
abandoned or abused children)
In schools, social workers, address such problems as:
- teenage pregnancy
- misbehaviour
- truancy
They advise teachers how to cope with problem
students.
Currently social workers respond to individuals need,
particularly ‘child protection’ and children in need’ referrals to
the Educational Welfare Service or the Children’s Trust child
Protection and Assessment Team. Individual children referred
will then receive an initial assessment if it is deemed an
appropriate referral.
Family Support Services:
Family support services currently provide
outreach services to families who have ‘children in need’.
Outreach services to families can be accessed through self referral
or referral by a school or other children’s service. The
family support service can provide parenting skills groups in:
- Webster Stratton Course in behaviour
management
- ‘Triple P’ Positive Parenting Programme
- Infant massage
- Play and learn
- Father and child
