by Daniel Lombard

It was Saturday night in Bedford, and the room was filled with gyrating bodies dressed in dinner jackets and dresses. My first taste of the Social Worker of the Year awards, and as the guests let their hair down to put talk about low morale in social work behind them, the mood of celebration was tangible.

But not everyone was happy.

"I can't believe I'm here and missing the X Factor!!" said one lady who had travelled with colleagues from an adult social work team in the North East.

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