For many social work students this is the week they start their courses. Or, if my experience of university is to anything to go by, it is the week they begin small talk with new flatmates before the work begins.
A wide variety of students, mature and young, doing a masters or an undergrad, are taking their first forays into the social work profession.
To support social work students, or possibly warn them, existing practitioners used the hashtag #swfreshers16 to pass on advice to those beginning their long journey into social work.
Here are some of the responses:
