A survey of 1,100 social workers by The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) revealed that 88 per cent fear that vulnerable lives are being put at risk by cuts to services.
More than 80 per cent of social workers said they had seen notable cuts to services in the last 12 months and 77 per cent claimed they were concerned about unmanageable caseloads.
A comment from one social worker said, ‘Staff are not being replaced. We are running a service on three full time staff and three part time – it used to be six full ime staff. Our caseload has doubled and I fear things will be worse.’
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