Richard Kweku Boni

• Chairing strategy discussions and permanency planning meetings, and devising plans that support long-term positive outcomes for children and families
• Leading on safeguarding decisions, including S47, escalation cases to ICPC, LPM, PLO, and issuing proceedings.
• Providing professional and practice oversight on complex cases.
• Managing Team budget, ensuring cost-saving initiatives and value added, and value for money decision making within the team
• Promoting innovation and reflective practice within the team.
• Recruiting qualified candidates through job postings, interviews, and referrals; evaluating resumes and applications; and extending offers of employment.
• Monitoring team performance, tracking progress towards goals, identifying improvement areas, providing employee feedback, creating a comprehensive onboarding program, and conducting orientation sessions for new hires.
• Identifying training needs, creating training platforms, providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring to individual team members and whole team as needed to help them reach their full potential.
• Motivating team members to consistently achieve or exceed performance expectations, through individual and group supervision sessions

• Conducted home visits, assessing the safety and well-being of children, direct work with children, and advocating for families.
• Investigated reports of child abuse and neglect according to protocol, such as organizing strategy discussions, conducting S47 investigations jointly with the police or a single agency, ICPC, PLO, LPM, and court hearings.
• Participated in multidisciplinary team meetings related to client cases such as ICPC, permanency planning, high-risk panels, and JAR.
• Monitored caseloads for compliance with service delivery standards, delivering timely child and family assessments written to a high standard, identifying risks, and devising CIN/CP plans.
• Supervised ASYE and student social workers were assigned to work on client cases and provided guidance, support, and training to junior practitioners on best practices.
• Provided crisis intervention services, working on complex cases in the team.
• Ensured that all documentation is completed accurately and submitted on time. All case notes were recorded on time, managing time excellently.
• Attended court hearings as necessary when cases are issued in court.
• Coordinated transition planning efforts for young adults leaving care settings.

Completed child and family assessments, achieving 98% on-time delivery rate.

Managed average caseload of 20 cases, including Child Protection and Looked After Children.

Organized and chaired Core Group and Child in Need meetings, ensuring effective collaboration.

Attended Child Protection conferences and Strategy Discussions, completing Section 47 inquiries.

Consulted families on internet safety, Autism Spectrum Disorder awareness, and parenting skills.

Supported social work students during placements to bridge theory and practice gaps.

Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop practical support plans for young people.

• Maintained comprehensive case records, including summaries and child plan reviews.

Managed Child Protection and managed Child in Need cases with high thresholds effectively.

Maintained updated case records, including summaries, reports, and child and family assessments.

Developed and reviewed child plans in collaboration with families through meetings and visits.

Authored Family Court reports, including Section 7, 37, and SWET for care proceedings.

Collaborated with agencies like GPs, schools, and mental health services for a holistic family approach.

Referred families to partner agencies such as CAMHS and Youth Offending Team for additional support.

Conducted individual and group interviews to assess clients' needs and strengths accurately.

Educated families on issues such as mental health, unemployment, and parenting skills.