Cases are icebergs
Social Work is one of those jobs where people will say no two days are the same. This is definitely the case because we work with people, and everyone is an individual, but I do find that we see the same types of things quite often. There will always be outliers that are like nothing you have ever seen before but more often than not we see the same types of referrals coming through. For the team I work in we see: · Capital drops (where someone who was self-funding previously is now below the threshold and can receive some financial support from the Local Authority), · Carer Strain (the carer is struggling and needs a break), · Assessment Bed (someone has either left hospital or has been put into an assessment bed from the community to establish their needs before working out a long-term plan), · ...