Direct Work Support sheet

This template is designed to support you to think about what you need to record when you undertake a direct work session with a child. It does not replace the recording requirements and should be used as a prompt rather than a script.

It has been designed to allow you to write on the support sheet and pass to admin staff for typing.

There are lots of work sheets that practitioners will find useful to complete with children and young people, a link for this can be found in the practice standards. Try and use creative ways to engage with young people, provide a brief description of what tools you used and ensure you upload those to the child’s file. You should be able to answer the following questions during or after your visit.

How does the child feel?
What does it feel like living in the family?
How is our intervention impacting on improving the child’s circumstances?
Is there anything that needs to be offered to support the change?

Work Support information

Name of child

Date of visit

Worker undertaking visit

PURPOSE OF VISIT - Provide a summary of the purpose of the visit. For example; direct keep safe work, self- esteem building, safety planning wishes and feelings

AREAS COVERED - Provide bullet point of areas covered including whether you summarised the information from a previous visit.

SUMMARY OF THE WORK - This should be your description of the child’s views, understanding, responses to questions or activities completed, Has the child given an indication of how they feel ie safe, unsafe, upset, scared. What do they think is better, good, safe, what do they want to change, happy.

IMPACT - Was the child insightful, risk reduced, increased, not changed. What is the impact outside of their home, impact inside the home, developing strengths noted, Risks identified increasing / reducing.

NEXT SESSION PLAN - Discuss with the child what you want to do on your next session and what they may want to do in their next session, date you are going.

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS - State of the property, interactions of the child, observations of the child with others, any additional action needed.