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Bloody Social Worker: One Man's Three Decades in Social Care

by Richard Wills - £10.00  Thinkwell Books (2022)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781739668129 | ISBN 10: 173966812x

On Monday, 30 November 2020, Richard Wills resigned. Burnt out, unable to take it anymore and with his health shot to pieces, he decided that being a social worker was no longer him.
 
Bloody Social Worker – mallet and memoir – documents his 32 years on the front line, in ‘Madchester’ and Oldham, together with his childhood in Cumbria.
 
This isn’t a dry, academic splodge of a book though, about processes and policy, but one which illuminates the “glorious, tragic, funny, and enchanting figures” he came across.
 
Stumbling into moving taxis, looking after ‘Salman Rushdie’s’ cat, witnessing fights between Mr T (blind) and Mr M (Down’s syndrome) on the disco floor and in a helicopter, Wills invites you into his former world and simply asks you to look at complex individuals – those who “perplex and amuse” – with fresh eyes.

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