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Childrens social workers to be mental health awareness trained and SEN trained
Closed
2,129 signatures
What the petition asks
Children are ending up in care wrongly, as front line social workers are not equipped with mental health awareness training or SEN trained.
Reports on emotional harm are written wrongly, resulting children end up in care with complex needs and challenges that are not met until they leave care.
Reports on emotional harm are written wrongly, resulting children end up in care with complex needs and challenges that are not met until they leave care.
1 in 4 Children and young people suffer with mental health issues. Though it still seems to be over looked in Childrens social work. They often lack to correctly identify a bullied child, a grieving child or child struggling at school because of SEN needs. Families are being split up because of lack of basic training that should be mandatory at University level with a yearly review in the work place.
Timeline
| 5 Nov 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 5 May 2019 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
2,129
Status
Closed
Opened
5 Nov 2018
Closed
5 May 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.