Poverty prevalent in communities where social workers are engaged

Poverty prevalent in communities where social workers are engaged

"There's an idea that dealing with being poor isn't real social work, that family dynamics and child protection are the name of the game rather than engaging with the mucky bit which is true of most of our clients, namely that they don't have much money," says Vaux, Community Care columnist and head of Hertfordshire's money advice unit. "If 95% of children in care were black or disabled, you'd want to know why. But when 95% are poor, we're so used to that being a fact of life that we don't do anything about it."