The Independent reports that the average social worker in the UK takes almost 60% more sick leave in any given year than the ‘average employee’. The figures were put together by MP Annette Brooke and they show that Social workers’ annual absence rate was 11.8 days a year – 60 per cent higher than the national average [...]

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