Said almost every social worker in every part of the country. Soon to be replaced by AI expertise no doubt.

The only problem solving strategy I’ve been allowed to implement as a social worker is a maths problem. Namely, how much of this care package are you going to reduce. Reduce, recalculate, reduce further and recalculate again.

Wanting to solve problems rather than analysing them is a novel way to do social work Lee.

Surely if “it makes sense” to regard crime as a means of coping with poverty, the most effective social work would be to tackle poverty rather than perhaps the easier option of ‘psycologising’ behaviour and circumstances? Poverty doesn’t go away as a driver while social workers scramble to unpick trauma which by it’s complexity may require long term and perhaps painstakingly slow work does it?