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How should we define social work?

The Social Work Task Force has signalled its intent to come up with a new definition of social work to counter public misconceptions. Anabel Unity Sale reports that with the negative coverage that social work attracts, it is hardly surprising that the public is not clear about what social workers do, and that people are led to believe that professionals swoop in and steal babies from families, give older people with limited mobility a bath and then make their dinner. Other frontline public sector workers have no such trouble; the work of doctors and teachers is much more clear cut in the public mind.

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Published: 
2009
Author: 
Anabel Unity Sale
Publisher: 
Community Care