Blog: Why frontline social workers should be provided with PPE
Mark Willis writes that it is essential local authority social workers are provided with PPE as they start to resume visiting vulnerable children.
Boris Johnson announced his roadmap out of lockdown measures this week, urging people who cannot work from home to get back to their jobs while the public can carry out unlimited [...]
Blog: New timescales and remote working at WillisPalmer
By Mark Willis
As every other school, local authority, solicitors, children’s home and business across the UK, WillisPalmer has had to make some changes to our working practices during the current climate of COVID-19.
This week, we have successfully carried out psychological assessments entirely remotely and still to the high standard you have come to expect from [...]
Blog: Lockdown needs an end in sight to prevent irreparable long-term damage to children
The need to safeguard children has never been more imperative since the outbreak of COVID-19. Many of the measures introduced to combat the spread of the virus have placed vulnerable children in increasingly dangerous situations – which is why we cannot justify a lengthy lockdown period as the fallout will be even more damaging than [...]
Blog: Keeping families together safely
By Mark Willis, Chief Executive, WillisPalmer
It is a startling statistic to think that 92 per cent of children in care return to their families or home communities eventually after a period in the care system. Given children will have been taken into care for emotional, physical or sexual abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic [...]
Multi-Disciplinary Family Assessment: balancing risks and needs
Multi-Disciplinary Family Assessment: balancing risks and needs.
Mark Willis, Chief Executive of WillisPalmer discusses the launch of an innovative community-based assessment model.
Assessment is one of the core defining processes of what social workers do in their work and is an integral part of social work practice.
Assessment of parenting capacity is a particularly complex area of social [...]
Why social work could benefit from Black Box thinking
Director of WillisPalmer, Mark Willis on what social work can learn from the aviation industry and learning from failure.
December 28th, 1978. United Airlines Flight 173 took off from JFK International airport in New York heading to Portland, Oregon. Captain Malburn McBroom was a 52-year-old veteran of the Second World War, an exceptionally experienced pilot. [...]
