In June, Community Care launched our Choose Social Work campaign to champion the profession and inspire the next generation of social workers.
As part of this, we are exploring how the often negative media coverage of the profession affects social workers – and how it can be improved.
In this episode of our Learn on the Go podcast series, from Community Care Inform, two expert guests discuss media coverage, blame and shame of social workers.
The guests are Dr Liz Frost, associate professor of social work at the University of the West of England, and Dr Maria Leedham, senior lecturer in applied linguistics at the Open University.
They discuss Maria's research into mentions of social workers in UK newspapers and TV dramas, why media coverage almost entirely focuses on child protection, and whether there are signs that this negative bias might be changing.
The podcast is available on most podcast platforms such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify, or you can find it by putting ‘Learn on the Go’ into your search engine.
You can view a written transcript of the podcast here.
More Choose Social Work content
- How to take action and improve the public's perception of social work
- How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media
- What is the impact of negative media coverage on social workers?
- 'We never hear about the children social workers help': a day in the life of a social work team
