Podcast: celebrating a long career in social work

As Community Care marks its 50th anniversary this year, we wanted to find out how social work has evolved through those years and how that has shaped practitioners’ careers.
For the Social Work Community Podcast, senior careers editor Kirsty Ayakwah spoke to independent social worker Gretchen Precey, who celebrates 47 years in children’s services this year, to learn about her experience of the past decades.
Gretchen qualified in 1977 and spent over 20 years working directly for local