The British Association of Social Workers’ (BASW) Annual Survey of Social Workers and Social Work finds that “staffing levels, access to resources, workload, cuts to local services and the funding of social care remain areas of core concern for respondents”.
Of more than 1,215 social workers who responded, 67.5% said they considered cuts to public services “to be the biggest challenge for the social work profession now and in the immediate future”.
Social workers were given the option to highlight three areas they felt were having the biggest negative impact.
Some 62% of respondents chose failure to adequately fund social care, while 41% highlighted recruitment and retention issues.
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