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#Respect4SocialWork: Professionals invited to join session to discuss challenges faced after child deaths

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Support for a campaign urging greater respect for social workers has increased significantly in the last few weeks following the tragic news of a number of child deaths following abuse and neglect.
Social workers have faced scrutiny following the high-profile deaths. Picture: Adobe Stock
Social workers have faced scrutiny following the high-profile deaths. Picture: Adobe Stock - ADOBE STOCK

#Respect4SocialWork was launched last September in a bid to create a better understanding of the complex cases that social workers hold and to urge a more balanced view of what social workers do. All too often the life changing work that social workers carry out with families on a day to day basis goes unmentioned yet in the rare circumstances where there is a tragedy, social workers are in the spotlight.

The campaign, endorsed by Tim Loughton, the former children’s minister, BASW, Dr Ray Jones, professor in social work and Nushra Mansuri, assistant professor in social work, has gathered real momentum in recent weeks.

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