Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work is Community Care's campaign to champion the profession. Through this we:
  • Share inspiring stories, from social workers, celebrities and people with lived experience, about the difference that social work can make.
  • Enable social workers to champion one another through our My Brilliant Colleague series.
Please share this resource about the campaign with colleagues, leaders and future social workers. #ChooseSocialWork
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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘I wouldn’t be here without them’: the power of workplace friendships in social work

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ADCS president for 2024-25, Andy Smith

Children, Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘His unwavering support had a profound impact on my son’s life’

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Regulator urges TV industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts social work

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘Even though you’re not here anymore, you still influence my passion for social work’

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘Her support made an extremely challenging time manageable’

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Smiling colleagues conversing.

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My Brilliant Colleague: ‘I hope to one day be as successful and brilliant as you are to me’

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Your chance to celebrate your social work colleagues

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘You have lifted my spirits after a very difficult day’: how Choose Social Work has supported the sector

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Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

Breaking barriers: Meera Spillett’s path from disabled social worker to award-winning leader

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(L-R) Headline Sponsor Sanctuary Personnel CEO James Rook, Omaid Badar, Broadcaster and journalist Ashley John-Baptiste. (credit: Social Work Awards)

Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

From refugee to social worker of the year: Omaid Badar’s story

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Incompetent or child-snatchers: how media coverage of social work impacts the profession

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Two-thirds of social workers say their practice is influenced by fear of the media, finds survey

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘The one social worker who made me feel genuinely cared for’

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Dear Future Social Work

Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘Being comfortable with the uncomfortable is social work’

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘She’s been a mother figure to me’: a care leaver and social worker’s story

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