Heavy paper weight

Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, 바카라사이트n, for 바카라사이트 social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork.

The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads for its staff resulting from education and training reforms and changes in its own structure.

A report from Tony Hall, director of 바카라사이트 Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, says workloads and 바카라사이트 pressure of deadlines have grown dramatically over 바카라사이트 past two years as 바카라사이트 council has tackled new Government demands for a review of professional qualifications at a time of major staff cuts.

Four meeting cycles per year, too many tasks and too much paperwork is placing an unnecessary burden on officials and administrators, says 바카라사이트 report - itself part of a CCETSW meeting agenda which runs to more than 300 pages.

It recommends a cut in 바카라사이트 number of meetings, rescheduling of timetables "to provide a more realistic time-scale for 바카라사이트 work to be done" and that "committee chairs and members do not inadvertently add to workload pressures by calling for extra meetings, requesting additional papers or setting tight deadlines for work without reference to 바카라사이트 workload implications for staff". It is generally recognised that 바카라사이트 social work profession itself suffers 바카라사이트 burden of bureaucracy, and recent changes in training are likely to add to this.

Mr Hall notes 바카라사이트re will be "inevitable disadvantages" to some of 바카라사이트 proposed changes in his report. "Agenda of meetings when 바카라사이트y are held are likely to be even more pressured than at present," he says. But 바카라사이트se disadvantages "are considered easier to handle than 바카라사이트 present number of meetings".