Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work is Community Care's 2023 campaign to champion the profession.
    • We will share inspiring stories, from social workers, celebrities and people with lived experience, about the difference that social work can make.
    • We will publish a series of letters, Dear Future Social Worker, to inspire the next generation to choose social work as a fulfilling, rewarding career.
    • And we will show the damage that negative media coverage can have on social workers, and explore the potential solutions.
Please share this resource about the campaign with colleagues, leaders and future social workers. #ChooseSocialWork
Janet and Lizzie

Children, Choose Social Work

‘She’s been a mother figure to me’: a care leaver and social worker’s story

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Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

How to take action and improve the public’s perception of social work

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Kayleigh Rose Evans

Choose Social Work

‘I did not enjoy being new’: advice for young social workers

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Dear Future Social Work

Choose Social Work

Find your ‘person’ and prioritise supervision: advice from a principal social worker

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Why social workers choose to stay

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Social workers advice: 'Take care of yourself first - it's not selfish, it's necessary'

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Choose Social Work

28 reasons why you chose social work

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What is the impact of negative media coverage on social workers?

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Children, Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work: ‘They helped me escape the life I was living as a teenager’

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Adults, Choose Social Work, Inform Adults, Inform Children

Tips for coping with difficult conversations

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Choose Social Work

How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media

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Choose Social Work

How does negative media coverage of social work affect you?

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Choose Social Work

‘It doesn’t always feel like it – but being a social worker is a privilege’

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘We never hear about the children social workers help’: a day in the life of a social work team

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

‘The advice that has stayed with me through my social work career’

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Rebecca and Kath O'Dwyer

Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

When social work becomes a family affair

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