Re: Not Good
Shouldn't happen in Scotland anymore thanks to the interim Vulnerable Persons Database. This is a concern form that's raised wherever there's an incident of this sort and it gets passed directly to social work.
Of course, whether or not social work read them and act on them is a different matter. I don't think the poor wee souls realised how many domestic incidents we deal with on a daily basis, so there's probably just a big stack of forms sitting unread at their offices.
They are by far and wide the worst government agency I've ever had to work alongside.
The fact that they change the standards of required care area by area says it all. I work in a shithole, and the houses I go into are fucking awful, but dear old social work... as long as there's dried noodles in the cupboard the kids fine, never mind the house is beyond filthy. Yet in a more affluent area the kid would be whipped out if the parents couldn't provide at least two holidays a year to Switzerland.
That's another rant for another day anyway.
The long and short of it is:
There are failings in the system due to lack of datasharing.
We need to datashare. That's inevitable and common sense.
It's how we do it that will be the killer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
