It's hard to overstate the importance of a good keyworker and just how much of a difference they can make. It's a real problem the way somebody somewhere appears to think they are completely interchangeable and it's fine for people to have a string of disjointed keyworking instead of finding one where you both can work together to make proper progress. When they're chopped and changed so often they just end up spending half the time going over what you did previously with the prior keyworker and by the time you've gotten back to where you finished off with the last one they've been changed again and you're back to starting from scratch. The relationship with a keyworker can often be... well... key to a great many people who perhaps don't have any other stable relationships in their life.
Having somebody you've come to know, to respect, to get along with and be able to work with always there in the background when you need them makes all the difference. Given the sensitive nature of what keyworking involves it seems madness to have such quick turnover. It's a very common experience though. Have had a number of such people come and go - always a good one replaced by a waste of space, naturally 8) - and it really is very disheartening. Makes you feel the whole thing is pointless sometimes cos you spend more time training up a new keyworker than you do working together to move forwards. It's not pointless cos a good keyworker is worth their weight in drugs (very good drugs at that) but it is an issue that needs addressing cos I have no doubt whatsoever that all the chopping and changing which seems to be the norm these days is greatly detrimental to the client which just ends up costing more than it would to fund them properly in the first place.
Having somebody you've come to know, to respect, to get along with and be able to work with always there in the background when you need them makes all the difference. Given the sensitive nature of what keyworking involves it seems madness to have such quick turnover. It's a very common experience though. Have had a number of such people come and go - always a good one replaced by a waste of space, naturally 8) - and it really is very disheartening. Makes you feel the whole thing is pointless sometimes cos you spend more time training up a new keyworker than you do working together to move forwards. It's not pointless cos a good keyworker is worth their weight in drugs (very good drugs at that) but it is an issue that needs addressing cos I have no doubt whatsoever that all the chopping and changing which seems to be the norm these days is greatly detrimental to the client which just ends up costing more than it would to fund them properly in the first place.
