Nearly half of respondents to BASW’s annual survey of social workers said that workload was their biggest challenge, with 74 per cent saying they felt unable to complete their work during contracted hours.
The survey received responses from more than 1,500 social workers, and a quarter of respondents were managers, practice leaders, consultants or principal social workers.
The survey’s findings, published on World Social Work Day (21 March), show that the high demands of the role were likely being exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis, with half of respondents saying the number of people in poverty they worked with had increased due to the crisis.
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