So more difficulties and less help for families, more demand into the child protection system, and no commensurate increase in capacity and worker time means that inevitably workers start to cut corners.
Some need social worker time and empathy, but with local authority budgets slashed by around 30% since 2010, he says "the imperative all too often appears limited to child protection to the seeming exclusion of family support".
Elsewhere Dell plans to combine the tasks of downloading software and testing computers, eliminating a step-and valuable seconds of worker time.
Rather, they are primarily intended to create a distraction to allow the worker time to get away from a potentially violent situation.
With appropriate tasks shifted to community health workers,c 6.1 hours of clinician time would be freed, while 9.5 hours of community health worker time would be added.
The total cost figures represent economic rather than financial costs i.e. they reflect the value of the resources used and include resources drawn on by the project but funded from other sources (statutory worker time).
