It is about a young woman named Elizabeth. She is the daughter of Mary who lives in a very well-known rough area in Lewisham. All the houses in the road are council homes and many of them are known to the department. You are at the moment working with another family that live in that same road that are under a Child Protection Plan for neglect. You have a very good relationship with the mother of this other family and she has told you stories about the road and how she would never let her daughter have relationships with this family. You are also aware that in the long-term team where you have been working for the last two years there are some families that have relationship with Elizabeth’s family. They have been known to the department for years. Mary and Elizabeth live with Mary’s long-term boyfriend, Ben, that is Elizabeth’s father. Mary has other two adult children that live nearby and that pop into the property almost every day. They have their own partners and children and one of them is known to social services and it is an open case for neglect. The allocated social is concerned about this family because there have been historical allegations in the family about sexual abuse to the children. Elizabeth has been referred by her school. She has never been a very good attender and they have referred her to social services a few times however the case has always been closed because Mary was seen as a very ill woman with sclerosis, dyslexia, depression and alcohol consumption that needed help. She is also illiterate and she has always stated she can’t read the school letters telling her Elizabeth has not been in school and she has never attended parent-teacher conferences because of her mobility issues. Elizabeth has been seeing the school nurse sporadically because she is diagnosed with anorexia. On her last session Elizabeth has told her she is pregnant. The school nurse has made the school aware and they are contacting social services for a child protection referral.
Draw a genogram with the information you have at the moment.
Identify your assumptions and identify some of the questions you might have for Mary and Elizabeth on your first visit. Identify what is a priority for you in this case.
Identify how Bronfenbrenner’s can be used in this case to help us understand the situation.
Also identify development theories that could help us understand the situation.
Identify your social GRACES and the families as well and see how they could affect your perception of the case
