Winston Morson is a social worker in Hackney Council's hospital social work team, based in Homerton Hospital. He qualified at Brunel University last July.
How did you get into social work?
I first entered social care back in the mid-1990s. I was doing an economics degree but dropped out. It seemed so far removed from people's day-to-day lives and I wanted to be involved in something that made a tangible difference. So I decided to make the switch to social care.
I started off in a home for young people with physical disabilities. Then I worked in children's homes with young people who had difficult backgrounds. I decided a social work degree was a good way to progress my career.
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