Simon Cardy
I am a UNISON shop steward in children's services covering an office with a fostering, adoption, aftercare, and one of two looked-after children teams.
I have been a trade unionist for almost all of my working life. I qualified with my CQSW in 1985 and joined a predecessor union (NUPE) in my first job as social worker later that year. I was very green and 26 years old. I'm now 52, increasingly grey and in my 26th year of continuous service as a children's social worker.
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Topical comment on social work issues from a trade union perspective. Contributors include Simon Cardy, a UNISON steward and children's social worker in a local authority in the west midlands and Simon X* a social worker and approved mental health professional and former Unison steward. *name has been changed |
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