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The charity that could make you love social workers

...and why many social workers don’t like it

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

31 August 2013

9:00 AM

Is any public service more reviled than social work? Policemen, when not drinking with journalists, chase down baddies; firefighters save babies, and doctors cure diseases. Social workers, on the other hand, take away people’s children. They miss catastrophic abuse. In no news story are they ever -heroic. The perception of social work is unremittingly grim.

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