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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Choose Social Work

28 reasons why you chose social work

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

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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How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media

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How does negative media coverage of social work affect you?

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‘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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Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

When social work becomes a family affair

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One day with social workers showed Fatima Whitbread how much the care system has changed

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Children, Choose Social Work

‘It was wonderful to have somebody show me they really cared’: Luke Rodgers on the power of social work

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Choose Social Work

‘Social work is my passion’: what readers love about the profession

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Choose Social Work, Social work leaders

‘Stick with social work’: senior leaders share their best advice

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Rebekah Pierre

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‘I wanted nothing to do with social workers – until one gained my trust’

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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Are social workers’ families happy about their career choice?

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