Visited parent and house smelt of weed- should I report?

Surely you wrote a report following home visit ?

I agree this is a breach of child and vulnerable adult safeguarding legislation. I'd be contacting your local authority LADO to report the agency you work for, for sending you into this role, and in to someone's house, with no training.

Having someone in the family home around a child that is also vulnerable due to disabilities, with no safeguarding training, is dangerous for them. They have been put in a dangerous situation and it could happen again.

LADO - report the agency and organisation you are temping for.

And don’t confuse “reporting” with “judging”. You report facts, to someone else who judges the situation. Keep that straight in your head as it makes it much easier to figure out when to report.

Sending you to houses of vulnerable children with no safeguarding training is absolutely atrocious.

I would strongly recommend you look for a new job, if the agency don’t protect their clients they sure as hell won’t protect their workers. And when you’re not properly trained, the shit will hit the fan sooner or later.

Your agency must have a safeguarding lead, who is not necessarily your supervisor. But given the situation you’re in, yes I would report in writing to their social worker. Just because something is normal, that doesn’t mean it’s ok.

Follow the protocols of your role as you've surely been trained to do?

If you have a manager, flag it with him or her.

The house is a state and the parent/s or some other adult smokes weed there - this would add up to a problem to me. FWIW...

This, absolutely.

As everyone else has said, discuss this with your safeguarding lead and about the house being “a state”. How do you know that no other professional has reported concerns?

and this.

I really hope this isn't real.
It is incredibly worrying that you claim not to know, and that you then don't know who to ask, at work.

Concerning both that you are asking whether to let it go and posting it on here.

Agency or not you know what to do. If you really don’t you need to get gone and I really hope to never come across you in my role.

Im a qualified social worker. If you are in the caring profession you know this is a safeguarding issue that needs reporting.

It doesn't matter if you're new or an agency worker.

You KNOW who your manager is/person you report to.

Look to them for an answer, not a public parenting website.

If you are in a caring profession, as you said in your first post, it doesn't matter whether you're with an agency and thrown in at the deep end.

You will still be a trained or qualified person in order to be doing the role so you should have an idea of risk assessments, what to escalate, who to report to etc. You need to find out who that is for your new area of work, but no-one here can tell you who that is. You'll need to find that out locally

Report

Of course you should mention to both your employer and the social worker that the house smelled of weed, and you were concerned about cleanliness and safety. You don't need to say they are drug addicts who are neglecting their kid. But it's the truth and it's part of your job to note down and report the conditions your clients reside in surely?

I would report this. Follow the safegaurding procedure and have a chat with your line manager if you still aren't sure.

I'm really disappointed in your company for allowing you out without completing safegaurding training! Im a nurse and its always one of the first parts of the on boarding process

If you have not done the safeguarding training you should not be visiting houses alone. Reporting a possible concern is always the right thing to do, the authorities can then decide whether to pursue more investigation

And "the state of the house".

This is a terrible agency. Find a new one.

This is crazy op. Of course you know what to do. Even if you are agency you know what to do because it's the same everywhere.
If you feel there were drugs in the house in the presence children or other vulnerable people (rather than say in the lobby of a block of flats) you reported it as a safeguarding each and every time.Not to the police or social services unless you think there is a real and immediate risk of significant harm occurring.
If you don't know the procedure involved in doing this then ask your manager today. Go and email them now. If you are professionally registered failing to report safeguarding incidents will find you in trouble with your professional body.

You're in a caring role, supporting vulnerable families, but had no training and have no one to report to, so resort to social media to ask advice?

I would be reporting the company before even thinking about this family.

You're clearly ill equipped to do this job, and have no support or training. How many others are there like you?

These families deserve better.

Sounds like a dodgy agency to send you out without any training and with no supervisor

Report it then get out of dodge before you end up being scapegoated by this dodgy company

It’s just really concerning that you feel it’s an appropriate to ask this question on social media rather than speak to your boss.

You should report it, because on balance not reporting it could have more serious repercussions than reporting it.

in that case report both the weed and your agency to the social worker.

Follow training and safeguarding procedures 👎

Have a little gossip about a struggling family on MN in the hope of a pile on for them 👍

You know many, many families who need support are on here, right? They would absolutely recognise themselves from this thread.

Honestly, just do your job, and stop talking about your clients online where they could easily see it.

This can’t be real.

There’s no way you could work in a role like that without having done safeguarding training.

As everyone else has said, discuss this with your safeguarding lead and about the house being “a state”. How do you know that no other professional has reported concerns?