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Author O'Rourke, Liz.

Title Recording in social work : not just an administrative task / Liz O'Rourke
Published Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2010

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Description ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Contents note continued: Essential but pointless: attitudes to recording -- five.The demands of recording -- Value demands -- Person-centred recording -- Client access -- Functional demands -- Eligibility -- Communication with colleagues -- Communication with service providers -- Accountability demands -- Legal accountability -- Performance indicators -- Conclusion -- six.Resources/constraints impacting on recording -- Developing recording practice -- Learning to record -- Management feedback -- Time -- Change -- Information technology (IT) -- Social work role -- Budgets and service provision -- Conclusion -- seven.Recording dilemmas -- The worst-case scenario -- Sensitive information -- Ticking boxes -- Attempts to reconcile the record -- eight.Conclusions and implications -- Needs-led rhetoric and service-led reality -- Competing agendas -- The functional agenda -- The values agenda -- The accountability agenda -- An impossible task? --
Contents note continued: The ̀good enough' record: a problematic concept -- Recording: a conveniently neglected issue -- The way forward -- Practice and management issues -- Investment and policy implications -- Further considerations -- Conclusion
Machine generated contents note: one.Recording in context -- Recording: a neglected area in social work -- Development of recording in social work -- Client access to records -- The recording task -- Tensions inherent in the recording task -- two.Social work, risk and modernity -- Late modernity and risk -- Social work in late modernity -- The development of social work in Britain -- The decline of the welfare state, the rise of neoliberalism and the introduction of community care -- Ambiguities and tensions in the care manager's role -- Trust and blame in social work -- three.The social construction of the ̀real' record -- Records as professional and organisational constructs -- The record as surveillance -- Recording and risk management -- The paper burden -- Records, rhetoric and reality -- Recording dilemmas and professional discretion -- Recording: a problematic issue -- four.Setting the scene -- Research organisation -- Recording: a submerged subject -- A chance to talk --
Summary "Recording can be a chore. But it can also be a positive tool, encouraging reflection as well as focusing on accountability and information storage and sharing. As with recording itself, this research-based text should also encourage reflection and a positive re-balancing of the purpose, process and product of recording." Ray Jones, Professor of Social Work, Kingston University and St George's, University of London, and former social services director for Wiltshire and chair of BASW --
"The topic of recording is certainly one for which there exists little current literature, and this book makes an original and prominent contribution." SuzyBraye, University of Sussex --
Recording is regarded by most social workers as a necessary evil. The research from which this book arises found that recording is a highly complex and demanding aspect of professional practice. Why has such a critical activity received so little attention, despite the concerns over social work records identified with successive inquiries into tragic deaths? This highly topical book explores the often conflicting demands on social workers as they record information on the case files, and will stimulate a long overdue debate as to how to achieve more effective recording in social work. --Book Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social case work reporting.
Social service.
Social workers.
LC no. 2013443581
ISBN 1847427561
9781847427564