It's great to be doing something that stretches me a bit," says Sarah Gillon, who works for Westminster Council in London. "And you actually feel that people want to work with you because you are not seen as a nasty social worker."
Gillon did not have to change careers to experience this professional transformation. A qualified social worker, she joined the "remodelling social work" team at Westminster in April, and spends half her week working at a secondary school in the borough. The project is a three-year pilot scheme, aimed at changing the way social work is done and is taking place in 11 local authorities across England.
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