A manifesto published by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) calls for parliamentary candidates from all parties to pledge their support for social workers and the children, adults and families who use their services.
It highlights "poor working conditions and unfeasibly high workloads" as one of its priority areas for action from the next government - stating that high case and administrative loads are a "major source of stress".
"The quality of support to children and adults depends on providing social workers with the right conditions," the manifesto states.
It points out that, compared to the UK average, working conditions for social workers were worse than 90 to 95 per cent of other employees in both public and private sector occupations.
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