At this year’s Community Care Live social workers filled in comment slips giving their thoughts on the profession. We asked delegates to complete the sentence ‘I love being a social worker when…’. Here are some of the best responses…
How specialist refugee teams benefit young people and social workers 
Podcast: returning to social work after becoming a first-time parent 
Podcast: would you work for an inadequate-rated service? 
Family help: one local authority’s experience of the model 
‘We are all one big family’: how one council has built a culture of support 
Workforce Insights – showcasing a selection of the sector’s top recruiters 
The networking platform for social workers
The latest job opportunities within the social work sector
The largest free to attend event for the social work sector
The online learning and practice resource for social workers
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 
Hampshire County Council 
Lincolnshire County Council 
Norfolk County Council 
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust 
South Gloucestershire Council 
Wiltshire Council 
Wokingham Borough Council 
Children and young people with SEND are ‘valued and prioritised’ in Wiltshire, find inspectors 
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Social Work is the best job in the world however the bureaucracy and work loads conspire at times to make the best practitioners feel inept. Good to see that the enthusiasm and dedication of the work force remains buoyant.
Chris Penney
Senior Lecturer in SW
The best moment is when service user and families are clear about their goals, when they have achieved the outcome they wanted