It seems that our workforce, in the modern day, need to be experts on everything.
Some 30 years after I was first a social worker in Walsall, I guess there is a danger that I could fall into that age-old trap and find myself saying “things were different in my day”.
The truth is, things were different in my day, but not from some rose-tinted perspective, but from an acceptance that as society adapts to modern innovation, different stresses and whatever this month’s new normal is, so do the situations that workers encounter as they walk through a family’s door, as the recent events in a London Borough sadly showed.
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