The Longitudinal Study of Local Authority Child and Family Social Workers (Wave 1) commissioned by the Department for Education, found that 70 per cent of children and family social workers in the second and third years of their career admitted feeling stressed, compared with the average across the profession of 51 per cent.
The study found that the major causes of stress among social workers were workload being too high (51 per cent) and feeling they were being asked to fulfil too many different roles in their job (47 per cent).
However, agreement with each statement peaked among those who had been in the profession for two to three years.
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