The Department’s task force on violence and abuse against social workers reported in 2000, and made a number of recommendations for employers, including that they should undertake a service and training needs analyses in this respect, and put in place and implement actions plans where required. The latest data collected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection from local councils for April 2005 indicate that more than 80 per cent. of councils had completed the taskforce recommendations mostly or in full. The data have not been collected for more recent years and therefore should be treated with caution as a statement of the current situation.
At that time, around half all councils had completed the tasks set by the task force.
The following two councils were classified as having not yet:
Bracknell Forest; and
Lambeth.
The following 18 councils had completed some tasks:
Brent;
Coventry;
Dudley;
Gloucestershire;
Halton;
Hertfordshire;
Lewisham;
Newham;
North East Lincolnshire;
Oldham;
Poole;
Reading;
Sefton;
Slough;
Southend-on-sea;
Sunderland;
Thurrock; and
Trafford.
The following 54 had completed most tasks:
Bedfordshire;
Bexley;
Bolton;
Bournemouth;
Brighton;
Buckinghamshire;
Bury;
Calderdale;
Cambridgeshire;
Camden;
City of London;
Coventry;
Cumbria;
Derby;
Durham;
Ealing;
East Riding of Yorkshire;
Essex;
Gateshead;
Hackney;
Hammersmith and Fulham;
Hampshire;
Harrow;
Hartlepool;
Havering;
Islington;
Kingston-upon-Thames;
Leicester;
Leicestershire;
Liverpool;
Manchester;
Merton;
Milton Keynes;
North Lincolnshire;
North Somerset;
Northumberland;
Plymouth;
Portsmouth;
Rochdale;
Rutland;
Sandwell;
Solihull;
Southwark;
Stockport;
Suffolk;
Surrey;
Sutton;
Swindon;
Torbay;
Tower Hamlets;
Waltham Forest;
Warrington;
Wokingham; and
Wolverhampton.