Back to basics: how social workers returned to their roots during Covid

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of working with neighbourhoods as social work rediscovered traditional methodsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen lockdown was imposed in northern Italy this spring, travel became impossible and older people in remote villages were starved of money, food, medicine and support. Social workers in the area, which took the brunt of Europe’s first wave of Covid-19, stepped in to create networks of local people to pro