Being a social worker if you have one yourself

[Mcl21]

Just wondering if anyone knows if you can be a social worker if you have social services involved with your own family?

It depends on how involved- are you an extended family relative with no implication in risk? Or is it your children, and in what capacity.. having a child under the disability team would be different to a safeguarding team, child in need, child protection or looked after children team.

It depends on the circumstances basically

Depends on why they are involved!! Can you tell us a bit about your circumstances? Is this about u?

It's not me but someone I know. They have had SS involved on and off for the last 14 year or so for neglect, emotional and high risk of sexual abuse.

I just can't get my head around how you could be a social worker and be there to protect children when you can't protect your own.

Are they at uni or already qualified?
I am a sw and don't see how this could happen, unless they lied about their kids having ss involvement..

Qualified I believe - they are prone to lying so probably likely they did lie.

Your are asked if you have had any involvement with children's servicescin a personal capacity. I have no idea if they check this though. If it was historic and they could show how they had grown, learnt, reflected, etc then possibly they would be allowed to practice.

Im guessing she works in a different local authority to the one where she and her children live? (and would be known to) which is the only way I can think of how by lying, she could get away with it.. or as pp said, she has disclosed it and sufficiently evidenced that she's changed.. though that doesn't sound likely from your post op

You can check if they are a registered social worker using the Social Work England Website

https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/umbraco/surface/searchregister/results

I can't see how it wouldn't come up though if they work for the same local authority, and if the social work team working with the family are aware they are a social worker and as a result of their involvement have concerns about their fitness to practise as a social worker then they should have reported it to the persons employer and Social Work England.

It's not unheard of though for qualified social workers to have social work involvement in their own families though, either because they have their own children with disabilities or Child in Need in some way. Some may have chosen to Foster or adopt. There is no hard and fast rule it comes down to if there is a fitness to practise concern.