How conscious are social workers about their safety during visits?

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Visiting people in need of support and face-to-face contact are considered integral parts of social work. 
However, completing visits is a task practitioners often must carry out alone, which, in some cases, carries a degree of risk.
As experienced children’s social worker Sophie Baker explained in a recent article for Community Care: “Many of these families are experiencin