Social Work Recap: the vilification of social workers and Sunak’s ‘misrepresentative’ comments on profession

Social Work Recap is a weekly series where we present key news, events, conversations, tweets and campaigns around social work from the preceding week.
This week our line-up has a theme: public criticism of social workers.
From Sharon Shoesmith’s views on the scapegoating of social workers to the prime minister’s comments on practitioners ignoring child victims of sexual exploitation “due to political correctness”, here’s what you might have missed this week in soci