As you may have noticed from my not-so-subtle plugs on this blog, Community Care is running a joint campaign with Unison to highlight our Social Work Contract, which outlines the minimum conditions we think social workers need to practice safely and effectively.

To help us drive home the message that urgent action is needed to tackle the problems social workers are facing, we need to be able to show how bad things really are. To that end, we have created this short survey on supervision, caseloads and other working conditions.

Please take the time to fill in the 10 questions by the end of Feb, and we'll use the results to badger politicians, employers and other leaders in the social work sector. All your details will be confidential (no names) although we do ask you to tell us which local authority you work for, so we can map out which councils have been hardest hit.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2011/02/is-your-social-work-department.html