Caseload and workload management.
Supervision should include an analysis of caseload and workload management, and address any issues relating to the extent to the time available to work directly with children, adults and families as well as meeting other demands.
There should be a focus on protecting the public, delievering effective services and identifying barriers to effective practice. This may be included in the line manager's role.
- Guide to analysis and decision-making
- Guide to better information, better decisions, better outcomes - a frontline manager's guide to information systems
- Guide to case recording and record keeping
- Guide to confident direct work with children
- Guide to jointly delivering services: Youth offending teams and children's social care
- Guide to leadership and management in residential child care
- Guide to rethinking management in social work and social care: managers as systems designers
- Guide to understanding the importance of writing a chronology for the purpose of safeguarding children and young people
- Line manager briefing on timekeeping
- Using tools in direct work with children