In June 2023, Community Care launched our Choose Social Work campaign. We wanted to show the reality of social work: of dedicated, hard-working people, working alongside children, families and adults, supporting them to improve their lives.
Over the last year, we have published brilliant interviews with people like Jenny Molloy and Fatima Whitbread, spent a day with children’s social workers in a London borough, and shared social workers’ best advice for those contemplating joining the profession.
Now, we have compiled the highlights of the campaign into a digital resource pack, specifically aimed at inspiring the next generation of social workers to join the profession.
If you’re thinking of becoming a social worker, you know someone who is or you want to be reminded of why you chose the profession, the pack is for you – and is completely free to access.
Special thanks go to Cafcass, for supporting the Choose Social Work digital resource.
To access the resource pack, fill in the form below and the pack will be emailed to you.
Please do support the Choose Social Work campaign by sharing the resource pack with colleagues, schools and young people who might be interested.
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 
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 
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Great resource
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I lead a NE service user/ carer organisation and was Head of SW training and happy to circulate this pack
Very useful
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interesting resources.
Why chose social work? Pity you do not tell potential new -comers the harsh reality there is no Social, Care, Freedom, Autonomy, Satisfaction, or just Work/ Life Balance in the profession – join if you have no life, friends, or just want to join an organisation which will take up all of your life and spare time, and give you little if anything back.
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Useful.
Awesome