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to love social workers

22 replies

2snowshoes · 07/01/2010 12:56

dd is at respite 16 miles awya, roads are pretty bad.
so i ran school transport who buck passed ad lied.
rand council who supply transport, no help at all, seemed to think it was fine for me to drive out there but not the expierence bus driver!!
in the end they said ring social worker, so I did thinkf wtf could they do.
well we now have some one comming in a 4x4 to pick dh(doesn't drive due to health reasons) to go out and pick her up.

so today I love social workers.

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StewieGriffinsMom · 07/01/2010 13:25

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TakeLovingChances · 07/01/2010 13:26

Thank you

As a trainee social worker reading that has made my day!

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 07/01/2010 13:37

YANBU
social workers are awesome

meltedmarsbars · 07/01/2010 13:41

I think often social workers are given a bad press but can do great things - but are often limited by their budgets.

Good on your sw!

BadRomance · 07/01/2010 13:46

Oh yes ours is wonderful!

Just before christmas I became completely dissilusioned (read pissed off) with DS's school where he had started reception.

She helped me with a massive complaint to the governers and lea and sorted a place for him to start this term at a (hopefully ) wonderful new school.

She was really on the ball and pushed things along for me - couldn't have done it without her.

dilemma456 · 07/01/2010 13:48

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shockers · 07/01/2010 13:55

I love our post adoption SW

littlemoominmamma · 07/01/2010 13:56

They do a very hard job - don't think I could do it! Good to give them a pat on the back I think, very nice of you

Eskimoo · 07/01/2010 14:04

No YANBU - I am one, I work mega hard, and am very loveable...... Thanks for the bigup!!

cat64 · 07/01/2010 14:22

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BadRomance · 07/01/2010 14:26

Yep understaffed - underpaid (imo) - disillusioned ( for those who have to deal with verbal/ physical abuse) - and horribly portrayed in the tabloid papers.

I take my hat of to anyone with the dedication to do such a job

BadRomance · 07/01/2010 14:27

p.s Hope you get your DH and DS home safely! Put the kettle on!

maristella · 07/01/2010 17:42

thank you!! rare praise indeed

hairyclaireyfairy · 07/01/2010 17:56

My ds social worker is absolutely brilliant, the only proffessional involved in his care to do what she says she will do and if she can't will tell you why.

chegirlsgotheartburn · 07/01/2010 18:02

Sometime last year I recieved an envelope from the post adoption social worker who had been in post for a few weeks.

It contained newborn photos of my DS. I had waited 6 years for them. We had no photos to show him of what he looked like as a tiny baby.

It took one social worker a few minutes on the phone and the willingness to do this for us - to achieve what so many had not bothered to do.

They mean more than I can say to me and my DS.

A good SW is worth their weight in gold.

wahwah · 07/01/2010 18:57

Yanbu. I am proud to be a Social Worker. I hope that this thread stays nice, would be a lovely antidote to some of the others.

pennyrain · 07/01/2010 20:20

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VeronicaCake · 07/01/2010 20:29

YANBU. Some social workers are ace. I used to work in mental health. One family I worked with were going through a really rough time, the mother had severe mental health problems and was in hospital and the father who had been caring for her with very little support for a good ten years had developed an alcohol problem. He managed to get a place on an alcohol treatment programme but it started at 9am and he had to leave the house at 8 to get there. He was caring for a teenager who could get to school by herself, a six year old who could go to school with a neighbour and a three year old. There was no one who could take the three year old to nursery, the LEA wouldn't help with transport, the SSD dragged their feet on sorting something out and it looked like he'd lose the place. So their social worker stepped in and started coming in to work for 8am in order to pick up the little girl, look after her for half an hour and drop her at nursery before going to the office. She didn't get paid overtime for this.

She did this for six weeks. A family member from overseas then turned up who stayed to help. It made a huge difference to this family, SSD were seriously considering care proceedings if the father could not control his drinking, so the extra time this woman put in made the difference between helping three children stay in the family home with their parents (both of whom were devoted to them) and three children being traumatically split up into different foster settings. And when I asked her about she said that was why she did the job, for the times when you could make that sort of difference.

scottishmummy · 07/01/2010 20:31

yes,sw are hard working much maligned professionals

pointydig · 07/01/2010 20:44

that's nice to hear. Sometimes I think it must be one of the most shit jobs ever.

Cyclops · 07/01/2010 20:48

Hope your dd/dh/driver all got home safely.

cheapskatemum · 07/01/2010 21:04

I have had 3 SWs, all have been brilliant. Current one is now sole SW in transition team covering huge geographical area.

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