Social Workers.

[pussnboots]

I have just been watching Big Brother, there are twins called Sam & Amanda from Stoke they are 18 yrs old. They were sucking pink striped lollies and screaming like 2 year olds, jumping on beds and generally being a pain in the neck. They say that they are both studying to be Social Workers (God help us). Do you think that they will be good ones when they mature. If you didn't see them then watch tomorrow, it is painfull.

[sunflower68]

pussnboots good point well made.
As a fellow bb fan I am sure you will agree one of the more interesting aspects to the show is to see the contestants when they no longer can keep up the pretence, they forget about the cameras and acclimatise(sp?) to the surroundings.
I cannot wait for these girls to settle down and I think they will. Soon enough someone will lose it with them and their shrieking. They will realise they are being silly. They will need peace and quiet and their own space eventually.
I just hope somebody tells them today to please please not shriek to death when the handsome chap arrives tonight.
Nothing worse than shrieking women.
Sorry I didn't answer the qu. It is debatable whether they are social work material, I feel they are not.

[patsyann]

Part of their training to be social workers needs to be elocution lesons.So far I have been unable to understand a word they say.Oh yes I heard the word pinkie about the house decor.

[pingping]

surely if they are only 18 then they won't graudate as social workers until the are 21 - so give them a chance, a lot of growing up is done between the ages of 18-21 as I'm sure you'll all remember.

[stokeace]

i could cringe that the are from stoke as you can probably tell by my username im from stoke.they are a bl**dy embarrasment.........................

[smurfchops]

eyeshade -- the twin robots -- what is their past history then ?? Sorry I'm as sad as everyone else ... what a load of tosh - I think we only watch it in case something exciting happens ... but surely they will repeat repeat repeat anything like that so let's watch something else ..

[clairey-s]

Can I add a sneaky question in here?

(I'm gonna do it anyway...)

What do you think makes a good social worker?

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[pussnboots]

clairey-s....dont know what makes a good social worker, but unless these two pink bimbos grow up a lot in the next few years I wouldnt like them to be responsible for any of my family......as I said before social workers shouldnt be employed till they are at least 30yrs old and have gained some life experiences

[clairey-s]

too right... although if that was the case there would probably be a social worker shortage, gaining 'life experience' would either put people off because of the wait or they would just stick with the job they chose while they where waiting....

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[Mr Slappy]

Until recently social workers couldn't start training until they were 25 and could demonstrate life experience and professional experience.

We fought long and hard to no avail when they announced they were dropping the entry age (I've been a social worker for 10+ years).

The fact that these two bimbos will amost certainly go into modelling or some such well-paid carreer is, I thnik, a lucky escape for the social work profession.

Social workers do far more than just work with children - we work with people from birth until after death (working with bereaved families of client's).

Out of the million + cases handled every year by social work departments up and down the country, only a handful go tits up to the point where the media take an interest. That's far less than 1% and I feel that as a profession, we can be proud of that.

It's so easy to trot out a case that occured several years ago and feel that this represents the overall state of play, but it simply isn't true.

Unfortunately, we aren't allowed to talk about success cases so there's no balance.

Overall, social workers do a damn good job in difficult circumstances in spite of the efforts of successive governments to try and remove us.

[kelle]

My brother once lived with an evil witch that used to hit him and leave him in bruises. She didn't want him talking to females, incuding myself! He found the courage to leave her eventually, she left abusive messages on his phone, she reported him (wrongfully) to the police for assaulting her, she sold all his belongings and tried to acquire his house. Her job? Social worker.

[dalejoey]

I�m a 24 year old Social Work Practitioner and according to my supervisor, his supervisor and a number of other professionals I have worked with throughout my career, I am a damn good one.

Social Work has entered into a new era over the past few recent years in which you no longer need so called 'life experiences' to be a good practitioner. Contrary to that, I believe it is an advantage to be young, without children and have a fresh, positive outlook to modern social work. I work with adolescents, young parents, older parents and I have, generally speaking, got an extremely diverse case load. The way in which I work my cases needs a none oppressive, uni-lateral attitude which is not biased or discriminatory towards individuals. In my experience, some 'older' Social Workers, with 'life experiences' often let there own beliefs and attitude's impact on their practise because 'that's how they did it' and even some older Practitioners I have found to be clearly harbouring whatever unresolved issues they have from their 'life experiences' to the point that it, in my opinion, it makes them blinkered and discriminatory. But that is only a small number and the majority of my colleagues and managers do an amazing job and have provided me with solid grounding for my career and fantastic mentoring. I just felt that the point needed to be made that it is possible to be a good Social Worker even if you are young and without 'life experiences'.

I agree though, if the twins were to enter into any kind of Social Work, it would be disastrous. But I think that is doubtful due to their current level of maturity.

[vicburns]

If my experience with social workers is anything to go by they should fit in just fine. Maybe even too intelligent. My 15 year old step daughter has caused us so many problems but all the social workers we have talked to are bluffers who want to pigeon hole us into something that doesn't fit our situation. Over paid, condescending and arrogant the lot of 'em.