Historically Black social workers are marginalised and largely overlooked for promotion. A lot of us choose to be locum’s in order to enable us to briefly escape the institutional racism in many local authorities and resulting poor treatment.

Historically all SWs have had too many cases at any one time resulting in poor practice and high staff turnover. It’s not rocket science, we need more SWs who are treated well and less cases.

Better training is welcomed and that needs to be coupled with better treatment from managers (particularly that from some White managers to Black SWs), real opportunities for promotion and better pay.

That being said, this article talks about SWs as ONE. One cannot simply ignore other real issues that negatively impact on NQSWs especially those from Black and ethnic minority communities.