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Working with Children

Children’s Social Care is responsible for assessing and meeting the needs of children in need, looked after children, care leavers and children subject to a Child Protection Plan. Children in need include disabled children, young carers and children who have been adopted.

Social care for children and families provides help to families to enable them to meet the needs of their children. The service can provide support to families and more specialist help when it is required to enable children to be brought up and cared for within their own families.

The following services are available:

• Protecting children is a key responsibility which relies upon working in partnership with children, parents and other organisations

• Providing care for children who, for whatever reason, cannot be cared for by their own families by, for example, finding them foster carers or a community home

• Assessing the needs of disabled children and young people. Co-ordinating short breaks, day care and outreach support

• Offering help and advice to families and carrying out work with young people who have committed crime.

Why work in Calderdale?

Come and work for Calderdale’s Children’s Social Care and enjoy a rich and rewarding career. Calderdale offers its employees an exciting Learning and Development Programme which includes:

• A comprehensive induction programme
• ‘Back to Basics’ skills (which include among other things: Attachment style interviews, assessing families, ‘In My Shoes’ interview techniques, etc.)
• Calderdale One programmes –generic skills development
• Leadership and Management
• Safeguarding
• Training for Residential Workers
• Professional Development and career pathways
• NQSW framework – Newly Qualified Social Workers development package
• Many other Learning and Development opportunities offered by partner agencies

If you're a former Social Worker wanting more information on returning to a career in social care please go to: www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/social-work/return

Children’s Social Work Matters

Children’s social workers across the country are handling a record number of cases, with more than 74,000 children in Yorkshire and the Humber alone receiving their vital help and support in the last year. And now, in a unique two-year campaign, all 15 councils across Yorkshire and the Humber have united to make sure those standards of care will continue to improve for the most vulnerable local children. Under the banner of “Children’s Social Work Matters”, the campaign aims to attract new social workers to the country’s biggest region and raise industry standards for people already in the job.

For more information on careers in social care, please go to: www.childrenssocialworkmatters.org


For information on working specifically with adults, please go to our Working with Adults page