Hi
As a social worker/AMHP working at the front line of health and social care, I was wondering what your party was going to provide in the form of social work reforms? For one thing I think we all need paying better. We are over worked and under paid and treated like social pariahs for doing what most of us passionately believe in. We spend huge amounts of our careers going through academic professional training which is equivilant to Masters, we work with the most disadvantaged and often most difficult groups in sociey, and are regularly slated in the press as monsters. Anti social hours, over working, heavy case loads, little appreciation and all most of us want is to get better pay – especially as most of us are paying off university loans which were required to become social workers in the first place.
Thanks
Debs
