My father was a
My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. Babatunde Adebimpe
Social Worker
If children are hungry,
If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It’s hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can’t see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they’re facing at home in … Read more
I don’t do research
I don’t do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts. Anna Quindlen
Just as in policing
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy. Andy Sawford
We need a stronger
We need a stronger national voice for social workers which leads to a change in how the profession is viewed and its ability to represent itself to other professional bodies and with central government. Andy Sawford
If I hadn’t become
If I hadn’t become a model I thought of doing many things. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point, but I was a little kid. I wanted to be a social worker. Amber Valletta
It would be wonderful
It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received. Alexander McCall Smith
I look at Van
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we’re really doing is creating jobs for rock critics. Alex Van Halen
…I remembered the rose
…I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor–they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all … Read more
There’s very little in
There’s very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to be made. Over the years Miss Shepherd was visited by a succession of social workers so the character in the play is a composite figure. . . . A composite too are the … Read more