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    A survey of over 600 social workers found that many feel unsupported and alone when dealing with hostile parents. One social worker reported an incident where a father tried to attack them during a children's hearing and had to be physically restrained. Social workers are often expected to continue visiting families alone even after facing aggression. The survey suggests social workers regularly interact with hostile parents on a weekly basis but receive little assistance from their organizations in handling such situations.

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    A survey of over 600 social workers found that many feel unsupported and alone when dealing with hostile parents. One social worker reported an incident where a father tried to attack them during a children's hearing and had to be physically restrained. Social workers are often expected to continue visiting families alone even after facing aggression. The survey suggests social workers regularly interact with hostile parents on a weekly basis but receive little assistance from their organizations in handling such situations.

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    A survey of over 600 social workers found that many feel unsupported and alone when dealing with hostile parents. One social worker reported an incident where a father tried to attack them during a children's hearing and had to be physically restrained. Social workers are often expected to continue visiting families alone even after facing aggression. The survey suggests social workers regularly interact with hostile parents on a weekly basis but receive little assistance from their organizations in handling such situations.

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    children

    Held hostage by hostile parents


    Community Care and Reconstructs survey of social workers has revealed the full extent of the damage to morale caused by interaction with aggressive service users, writes Judy Cooper

    t a childrens hearing the father shouted at me and tried to run across the room to put me through the window. He had to be physically restrained by another family member. The meeting was not suspended or any support offered to me by the hearing, the panel or by my line manager. I was expected to continue making lone visits to the family home during the evening as the childrens father worked full-time.

    This is just one of the comments posted on Community Cares survey, carried out with childrens services consultancy Reconstruct of more than 600 frontline social workers about working with hostile and intimidating parents. Is is by no means the only one detailing just how alone and unsupported childrens workers are feeling when it comes to dealing with such parents, which, often, they are doing on a weekly basis. The survey seems to show that among

    edited by Judy Cooper judy.cooper@rbi.co.uk

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    CONFERENCES

    Safeguarding Vulnerable Adolescents, 1 December www.communitycare conferences.co.uk/adolescents

    www.communitycare.co.uk 17 November 2011

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    To find out more about Inform, the online resource to help professionals make, and evidence, their decisions, email kim. poupart@rbi.co.uk

    Some social workers have reported being held hostage by hostile parents on occasion

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