Stand Up Now for Social Work
The campaign has three central aims:
1. Better media coverage of social
work (to achieve better public perceptions of the profession)
2. More government support (the
government has supported the police and teaching, with the
‘Those who can, teach’ campaign – social work deserves something
similar)
3. Better support from employers
(lots of local authorities refuse to allow social workers
to tell their positive stories to the press. The result
is that the only coverage the profession gets is when there
is a child death. LAs need better, more proactive PR to
tell the good news)
Unison members can support the campaign
in a number of ways.
1) Sign our petition on the Downing
Street website, showing how strongly you object to negative
coverage in newspapers like The Sun: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Backsocialwork
2) Ask your MP to support an early
day motion (no. 692, tabled by John Hemming MP on 04/02/09),
calling on the House of Commons to "support Community
Care magazine in its campaign for support for social
work": http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=37745&SESSION=899
You can contact your MP online
– visit the following site, enter your postcode and you
will be given details about your local MP and a form allowing
you to contact them: www.writetothem.com
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