How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media

By Maria Leedham
‘Hostile media coverage’
‘Blame culture’
Social workers as ‘cultural scapegoats’ or ‘child snatchers’.
These are just some of the claims made about how social workers are portrayed in the media. But is the media really so negative about social workers? And what does this negativity look like?
Four times as many negative stories as positive ones
I set out to research the language surrounding the profession of social work in the medi