In 2008, I was a student social worker in my final year and placed into Southend Council's leaving care team.
I had a practice teacher and had an opportunity to meet her before my first day. That helped quite a lot, because at least there was a familiar face I had seen before.
The good thing about her was that she'd already had a student before me from the same university, so she had an idea of what was expected of her and what she had to cover.
Fear of violence
One case I experienced involved a young person who had been through a lot of foster placements. She had to go to a new emergency placement and she was very hostile and adamant that she wanted to go back to her biological family. We had to take her from the old placement to the new one.
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