Social workers are the worst scum on earth.

[SueEllen]

Yes, it is all very admiral wanting to help people but there has to be a distinction between the hippocratic oath and a tulipey social science degree.

A doctor doesn't have the time to work on getting someone rehoused, or removing a child whose parents use them as a punch bag or for their own sexual gratification.

[minestrone]

Just about every social worker I've met socially has been a weirdo.

2 of them I know are card carrying communists. They seem ignorant to the fact that their ideal political system killed 100 milion, but they have a few Dylan albums.

[mudskipper]

Yes, it is all very admiral wanting to help people but there has to be a distinction between the hippocratic oath and a tulipey social science degree.

I don't get your point.

One of the problems that's been reported with nursing is that since they insisted on a degree, some nurses feel they're too qualified to do basic nursing.

Social workers don't need to understand quantum physics. A social science degree seems much more relevant than a degree in medicine.

To counterbalance BP's experience, I've had dealings with social workers twice - both times they could not have done more to help with the situation.

[Cliphead]

Social workers don't need to understand quantum physics.

They don't need to be fcked up either, shouldn't they do some psychological testing on these 'well meaning, want to help people' candidates before they're let loose on the most vulnerable?

[minestrone]

A doctor doesn't have the time to work on getting someone rehoused, or removing a child whose parents use them as a punch bag or for their own sexual gratification.

They don't rehouse people because that is not their job.

[SueEllen]

They don't rehouse people because that is not their job.

What do you call it when they put children with foster carers, dump them in a home or decide a 16-17 isn't a child so dumps them in a B&B so they hang themselves?

[Cliphead]

What do you call it when they put children with foster carers, dump them in a home or decide a 16-17 isn't a child so dumps them in a B&B so they hang themselves?

Social work.

[ZARDOZ]

To be fair The word ends at Minestrone's front door. To paraphrase, he and his wife are ace, they are exceptionally clever and have excellent taste, everyone else is a feckless, tasteless, idiot, and he despises them. I could be wrong but that's how his posts come across.

[BrilloPad]

I would feel aggrieved at the individuals involved... I know people who have kids taken away (I think wrongly) by SWs and I don't think that some bad individuals mean it's an evil system. It's just like when people label any Catholic priest as suspect.

The CAtholic church has changed. But SWs are still institutionally sexist.

[BrilloPad]

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