A lot of children are also severely neglected and emotionally abused while in care. This is never spoken about and always ignored.

The whole system is broken 😢

We Brits no all abt burnout,we are having life drained from us

The economic crisis will make all of this worse. My heart goes out to the young social worker. 😢

She had 2 kids that had to go into social care in one part of the country and then she moved to a different part of the country and had another kid ,that’s not burn out / that’s stupid . What’s wrong with these people and what about the fathers ? A dog would die for its pup. Shame on the fathers to watch their children been taken into care …. That’s cold . I hope the kids do well - heartbreaking 🥲

Social services helped me save my daughter.  She's now happy and safe. I'll always appreciate them and the work they do!

Support the parents with a decent home and finances, taking children away is cruel and insensitive.

My utmost respect to social workers working in inner cities

If the reason is poverty the solution is not to remove children but to help the families... what world are we live in 🤨

The problem is the government not supporting the children. The social worker puts all the services together to support the particular child. But if there’s not accommodation, no protection and in general no alternative than living in the neglected/abusive household- the social worker can not do much!

Theses services should be a priority for funding

Sw needs integrity and managers with integrity.

My mother had to leave social work after 7 years. People have no idea the kind of abuse that happens to children in their community. One child had been so terribly sexually abused, and was now abusing other children, he is having to live solo in a house bought by the council with 3 members of staff following him in the community. She had to fight in court that this child had zero capacity for him to live in that way. The alternative was prison.
Imagine how much this costs? All because earlier, there was no funding for a specialised mental health placement.

This has been going on for years! Being a social worker myself had to take a few years out. Went to work for a charity for a bit. Now back into social work needed that break because I was ready of leave the profession due to some of the issues raised. Unrealistic expectations from seniors, out in the community until crazy hours of the night with no time for my own family.

Maybe if social workers stopped harassing and traumatising families who are NOT in need, there wouldn’t be such a strain on them!

So glad attention is being given to the work social workers do and the situations they work in. Too often the media has focused on what social workers get wrong rather than looking at the larger picture of the working conditions they face and the situations they have to deal with. Burnout for social workers is incredibly high and the UK is short of thousands of social workers. Many, including myself, choose not to work in particular sectors due to the burnout rate.

We need to appeal to other countries for foreign aid, seeing as the crisis in our own country is being ignored.

People need to stop having children if they can’t look after them.

Social workers don't get enough credit . Social workers are heroes. Social workers are amazing. The king should give the social workers medals for the selfless work they do . We really appreciate what the social workers do . Thank you ❤

Burn out is real!! It happened to my wife. She is now a wreck!!