Not every social worker is the same, that's true. But some are awful. One spent all day Friday constantly on the phone haranguing my sister. Sister is an learning disability nurse. Social worker wanted to dump a patient on my sister - the guy does have LDs but no immediate health crisis that would warrant admission. SW just didn't want to have to pay for respite care - a period of respite was ending but the man's mother still has cancer and can't have him back. So the SW was demanding the man was admitted so she could dump him, inappropriately, on the NHS instead of sorting her own ruddy act out and dealing with the man's very real needs for social care. Was shouting at my sister, threatening her, raising merry hell because my sister, quite correctly, said 'no'.
Obviously this is nothing to do with child protection, but it's a disgraceful way to treat a vulnerable adult. God knows how the other clients left to this SW's tender mercies are treated.