What is your political party

[SamuelRSmith]

Kasz216 said:

SamuelRSmith said:
Heh, they're overworked as it is, completely under resourced, and they never receive the credit that they deserve.

Social workers change thousands of peoples lives for the better every week, and it goes unnoticed by everyone, they make one mistake, and the world goes ballistic at them, when most of the time it's down to a lack of funding.

But, hey, let's not go off-topic.

Hang on, what was topic?

Haha I know.  Was just joking.

I mean it's a job you need two college degrees for pays like crap and requires something like 10 free weeks of work as part of certification.

Or at least those are The US guidelines

Well, my mum got into it by starting off as a worker at a Youth Club, and moving her way through that sector over the years.

She's not a social worker per se, social workers work as a part of a team called TASCC (Team Around the School, Child and Community) - a TASCC team is comprised of  social workers, home-liaison officers, educational welfare officers (which my mum is), and with high up staff in several local schools.

We actually have a huge lack of social workers in the area due to the fact that it's a really hard job, you're under appreciated, and underpaid. It's not just hard work in terms of long hours, but it can be emotionally quite difficult, as well.

Hell, my mum's been threatened enough times by parents and she just tries to get kids into schools, god knows how difficult it must be for social workers when they've got to do the work that they have to do.