Bristol Disabled Children’s Families ‘Challenging’ and ‘confrontational’

A job ad looks at Disabled children and their families with a child protection lens

Bristol’s Disabled Children Service is currently recruiting for a full time Family Support Worker for its Social Care Hub. The council is looking for someone with a ‘passion to improve the lives and outcomes of Disabled children, young people and their families’.

The council’s social care hub services includes advice and information on services in the community and needs assessments for children going through the Education Health Care Needs Assessment process.

It also helps children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to find suitable activities in the community.

But the advert for the new Family Support Worker job examines Disabled families through a child protection lens.

The Person Specification the council has released with the job advert shows that top of the ‘essential’ requirements is experience of working in areas that see Disabled families needing support as problematic.

It includes experience of working in education welfare or attendance, dealing with anti-social behaviour/youth crime or unemployment as a requirement of the job.

As well as approaching Disabled families as problematic, it also suggests that they are ‘confrontational’ within ‘challenging environments’.

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