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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
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‘I wouldn’t be here without them’: the power of workplace friendships in social work

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ADCS president for 2024-25, Andy Smith

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‘The power of social work has shaped who I am’ – ADCS’s new care experienced president

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Regulator urges TV industry to ‘change the script’ on how it depicts social work

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‘You have lifted my spirits after a very difficult day’: how Choose Social Work has supported the sector

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Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

Breaking barriers: Meera Spillett’s path from disabled social worker to award-winning leader

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(L-R) Headline Sponsor Sanctuary Personnel CEO James Rook, Omaid Badar, Broadcaster and journalist Ashley John-Baptiste. (credit: Social Work Awards)

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From refugee to social worker of the year: Omaid Badar’s story

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Incompetent or child-snatchers: how media coverage of social work impacts the profession

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Two-thirds of social workers say their practice is influenced by fear of the media, finds survey

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘The one social worker who made me feel genuinely cared for’

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Dear Future Social Work

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‘Being comfortable with the uncomfortable is social work’

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Children, Choose Social Work

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

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

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

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Dear Future Social Work

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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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