Social Worker Mugs

"To keep on top of the caseload I'm going to have to put in some overtime."

International Women's Day

Inequality SeeSaw

Set of scales with white family on one side and black people on the other.

"Good morning, Nice queue You've all passed"

'What's that noise?'

Business men in street looking at poster, "It must be hard living in a country where the rich and the powerful completely ignore the needs of the less fortunate"

Mentoring Unit: 'Go on! You can do it! You can be a mentor!'

"Actually, we're just getting started."

'DO you remember when volunteering was just about trying to help people?'

"At the moment I'm torn between the emotionally rewarding but poorly resourced role of a social worker or a more intellectualy rigorous career in quantum physics."

'You'll have to excuse my husband - he's got compassion fatigue.'

Restorative Justice Victim's Revenge.

'There's really no need for confusion with this Medicare stuff. Page 95, section 33, paragraph L in the instructions quite clearly says ... '

"You can collect for disability. I don't know about inability."

'We had to hire a bigger venue to accommodate the elephant in the room.'

'Apart from illiteracy, low self esteem, homelessness, poverty and a broken home. I can't find any reason for his offending behaviour!'

Self-sacrifice to aid others

"This company is unethical, exploitative, and ... wait a minute, HOW much?!"

"Some of us are unsung heroes."

'I'll be supervising you...'

"Notice how the table is round, so that everyone sitting at it is equal."

"Here at Wiblington Social Services we value our staff and respect the need to treat them all as individuals. This for example is individual No. 126GH/89."

'And this is one of our clients...er I mean service users, no I mean...'

"Luckily the days are long gone when we just labeled people as "mad"'

No 1 in a series of unlikely events: "Social work is such a meaningful worthwhile work that I've decided to give up my lucrative law practise to join you!"

"And finally, would you say your fear of crime has increased?"

'Do you remember when all we had to worry about was client care?'

'It says here that the secret to happiness is to enjoy the present.'

Workplace bullying.

'It's our latest caseload management system. . . we just keep adding files until he falls over!'

"Burnout"

'I'm afraid at times like this with overstretched budgets we all have to make sacrifices...'

Department of Work and No Pension

'The 'whole truth and nothing but the truth' can be tricky.'