Community Care has published findings from a survey about social workers in family courts. Findings include, of the 185 social workers and guardians asked: 55% said they felt their professional judgement is ‘never’ or only ‘sometimes’ respected by judges and lawyers; and 35% said they felt ‘very’ or ‘quite’ unconfident when giving evidence and being cross examined. |
Source: Community Care 14 November 2012 |