Shocking Sickness Rates in Social Work (The Independent 16 09 2009)

'Shocking' sickness rates in social work
Posted by n_morris
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 02:40 am
Author: By Nigel Morris, Deputy Political Editor
Freedom of Information requests discovered that the average social worker takes almost 12 days off a year through illness ? with one in 10 calling in sick at least 20 times. The figures emerged after the government launched a campaign to recruit more than 5,000 new social workers. There are currently 2,700 vacancies in the profession amid fears that the outrage over Baby P's death has deterred many people from choosing a social work career.