Social services! trainee social workers!?

Question

if a mother is having contact with her child in her own home who is in the care of social services,should a trainee social worker be allowed to supervise this visit? i would just like to no as normally a fully qualified social worker will supervise the contact but recently she has been sending her trainiee to supervise! is this legal? should trainiee social workers always be supervised intill they qualify when they are with parents and children having contact with each other when the child has been taken away from the mother? please can some one answer this for me thanks and good morning every one!

Answer 1

In my state, supervised visits between parents and their children are often done by a person that is not a social worker. If there are problems within the household that the person cannot handle, then a social worker could start to do the visits. State laws mandate that a child that has been removed from the home must have a certain amount of visitation with their parent. In order to meet these standards, someone else needs to do the visits because most social workers have huge caseloads.