Choose Social Work

Choose Social Work is Community Care's campaign to champion the profession. Through this we:
  • Share inspiring stories, from social workers, celebrities and people with lived experience, about the difference that social work can make.
  • Enable social workers to champion one another through our My Brilliant Colleague series.
Please share this resource about the campaign with colleagues, leaders and future social workers. #ChooseSocialWork

Choose Social Work

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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‘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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Choose Social Work, Workforce

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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Choose Social Work, Workforce

Do you tell people you’re a social worker?

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'Make a difference' spelt out in blocks

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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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Choose Social Work, Workforce

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

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