In social work assessments, professional opinion can often be recorded as fact

Amanda Boorman is an adoptive parent and the founder of The Open Nest. In a piece for Community Care, Amanda shares her experiences of social work assessments, and how unhealthy narratives can be recorded …

“This was a very serious misrepresentation of somebody in a file. It could also be viewed as racist, and definitely judgmental. The consequences had the records not been corrected could have affected people’s lives and identities very deeply.”

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