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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‘You can literally change a young person’s life’: an 18-year-old’s message for social workers

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A typewriter carrying a page with the words 'Dear future social worker by Emma Atkinson

Children, Choose Social Work, Workforce

Poem: Dear Future Social Worker

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Isabelle Trowler: ‘Cherish the responsibility you have to make a positive difference to others’

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Choose Social Work

Thinking of becoming a social worker? This letter is for you

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Social worker Alasdair Kennedy

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‘Social work is eye-opening, bounce-out-of-bed exciting’

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Do you tell people you’re a social worker?

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‘As a former child in care, I know the difference social workers make to people’s lives’

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beverley tarka

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Social work: ‘a hugely rewarding job and a real privilege’

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Children, Choose Social Work, Social work leaders, Workforce

Sharon Shoesmith: how social workers can get their professional pride back

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‘What I wish I’d known before becoming a social worker’

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Emma Lewell-Buck MP: ‘I was proud to be a social worker’

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Jenny Molloy: ‘Social workers have been so important in my life’

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Choose Social Work: join our campaign to champion your profession

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