Safeguarding and looked after children Survey of children’s social work practitioners Results for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2010 (Dud ’10) (No. of responses = 31) With comparison: Local Authorities Overall 2010 (NAT ’10) (Base = 4146) Date: May 2010
Safeguarding and looked after children. Survey of children’s social work practitioners Results for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2010 (Dud ’10) (No. of responses = 31) With comparison: Local Authorities Overall 2010 (NAT ’ 10) (Base = 4146) Date: May 2010. Survey background. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Safeguarding and looked after children
Survey of children’s social work practitioners
Results for Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council 2010 (Dud ’10)
(No. of responses = 31)
With comparison:
Local Authorities Overall 2010 (NAT ’10) (Base = 4146)
Date: May 2010
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This is the first annual survey of social work practitioners in every local authority in England.
The social work practitioner survey was conducted in tandem with a survey for third sector organisations. This report only shows the results from the social work practitioner survey; a separate report is available showing the third sector results.
These results will be used in the planning of inspections in the same way as other pre-inspection material, namely:
as part of preparation, as an aid to formulating hypotheses and to guide the scope of the inspection.
to help inform decision making about the scheduling of inspections.
Inspection judgements will not however be based on survey results, nor will we make comparisons between local authorities. As such, this report will only contain results for your local authority and the national results.
Survey background
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How to use this report
This report has been designed to help you easily understand and interpret the results of the survey and is intended to provide an overview of your area results in the context of the wider survey findings.
It is divided into eight sections: Induction (if applicable); training, workload, line management, organisational learning, communications, equality and diversity and the running of the service.
Anonymised verbatim comments for your LA are also available in a separate report where you can read social work practitioner’s views on the strengths and areas for improvement associated with safeguarding and looked after children in your LA.
% positive scores are featured throughout this report. These refer to the combination of positive responses e.g. strongly agree & agree. Aggregated % positive scores may vary +/- 1 percentage point after rounding.
As with any survey of this nature, we would encourage you to share and discuss these results with social work practitioners in your LA.
A total of 4146 social work practitioners took part in the survey overall, including 31 in this local authority.
Percentages do not always sum to 100%, this is due to rounding and removal of not stated responses.
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Survey methodology
All eligible social work practitioners (defined as professionally qualified social workers registered with the General Social Care Council who work directly with children and young people) were invited to take part.
Survey completion period ran from 22nd February - 2nd April 2010.
An appointed LA contact was responsible for distributing the survey internally to all eligible social work practitioners via email.
The survey was administered primarily online. The survey was hosted by Ipsos MORI and all completed surveys were received directly back to Ipsos MORI.
Survey branded emails and letter heads were provided to help LA’s to communicate the survey internally.
Inductions
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% Agree
Dud’10
NAT’10
My workplace induction covered what I needed
to know in relation to safeguarding children
and young people
50 51
My induction prepared me for my specific role
50 47
Views on workplace induction For those in post for less than 3 years:
Base: 12 : asked to all those in their current post for less than 3 years N.B. Results should be treated with caution due to the low base size