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Social care: providing services to vulnerable people in the community. Service users can be old or young and from any background. As well as social work, allied professions include probation, and youth and community work.

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FAQs about working in social care Qualifying as a social worker
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Graduate profiles

  • Adoption and fostering
  • Asylum seekers
  • Children and families
  • Domestic violence
  • HIV/Aids
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Learning disabilities
  • Mental health
  • Neighbourhood renewal
  • Older people
  • Physical and sensory impairment
  • Substance and drug misuse
  • Youth justice
  • Ben Watson (Specialist HIV social worker)
  • Farida Patel (Social worker, child protection)
  • Jan Garratty (Mental health social worker)
  • Kim Spain (Senior practitioner, physical and sensory impairment)
  • Laura Peat (Hospital social worker, older people)
  • Sid Khan (Supervising social worker, foster care)
  • Tanya Rajfel (Social work postgraduate student)

Social care graduate jobs

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