What do you do? I am the adoption service's first post-adoption worker.Our service has a long history of offering post-adoption support to itsfamilies.
Why did you start working in children's services? I guess it was reallyall my mother's fault. Back when I was 14 and bored with the long summerholidays, she suggested that I volunteer to help out in a residentialchildren's nursery. In 1960 many children under five were cared for inresidential nurseries. I really enjoyed being with the children, but Iwas immediately clear that the job that interested me was not theday-to-day care of the children, but finding families for them. Quitesoon after this I read John Stroud's The Shorn Lamb and discovered Iwanted to be something called a child care officer. I began my socialworker career in 1968 as a child care officer.
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