Over the past year, we have focused on amplifying social workers’ voices, stories and perspectives on the site.
Our Readers’ Take series has shared practitioners’ views on the key issues affecting the profession, while My Brilliant Colleague has allowed social workers to pay tribute to their co-workers.
We’ve also published a number of first-person experiences from social workers about the issues, challenges and dilemmas incidents they’ve encountered while working in the profession, some of which have been expressed through poetry.
To expand on that, we’re now asking you to tell us what experiences and topics you’d like to hear about from your fellow social workers.
You can let us know your suggestions by filling out this short anonymous form.
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Alternatively, if you’d like to write, or take part in, an interview about your story, you can send us an email at anastasia.koutsounia@markallengroup.com.
Find out more about writing for Community Care on our guidelines page.
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From anyone who has a positive experience of receiving regular supervision.
I have worked in the same LA in child protection and I have always had regular supervision from different managers. I’ve always been encouraged to take my leave. We have well being days we are encouraged to take. I’ve worked here since 2017.
As above, and the value had by managers of and promoting the 37 hour working week?
Managers relying on goodwill working by Social Workers. Viewing goodwill as exploitation. This contradicts Social Work values
how is it possible to to work safely to maintain one’s professional values within a unethical, unsafe and corrupt service were croynism is rife upon all matters, where union reps are complicitly involved in double dealing and are self serving, where everything you say is used against you and electronic communication and one’s work goes missing within secure electronic systems.