What Case Recording Feels Like From the Other Side

About this episode

Vicki Shevlin reflects on her experience of being recorded as a home educating parent and discusses implications for social work practice.

In this episode, I'm reflecting on my own unexpected experience of having a record written about me, not as a social worker, but as a home educating parent. It's a small, almost comedic example, but it stayed with me, and it raises big questions about accuracy, context, and what families actually feel when their words are recorded without them. I'm also sharing my thoughts on what the Families First changes and updated Working Together guidance mean for social workers in practice, and w...

People in this episode

Host: Vicki Shevlin

Topics covered

• case recording
• social work
• home education
• family experience
• accuracy in documentation
• Families First changes
• Working Together guidance

Keywords

• case recording
• social work
• home education
• Families First
• Working Together
• accuracy
• family feelings

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