Need to tackle ‘unfeasibly high workloads’īASW’s survey, carried out online from December 2021 to January 2022, is the latest research published recently illustrating the pressures on the profession.

Over a fifth (22%) said that working during the peak of Covid-19 had negatively affected their mental health and continued to do so, while 28% said their mental health had been negatively affected but had since improved.

On the back of the pandemic, 12% are working or studying exclusively from home, 34% doing so predominantly from home and 31% dividing their time between the office and home.

15% said they planned to leave social work for another profession, 16% said they intended to work fewer hours and 11% to become an independent or locum social worker.

Almost a quarter (23%) said they intended to continue in their role for the next three years, 18% said they wanted to change their area of practice and 17% apply for promotion.

59% were happy in their current role and 18% were not.

61% were happy to be working in the social work profession and 19% said they were not.

The three things respondents felt were most rewarding about their role were having a positive impact on people’s wellbeing (50%), enabling them to have more choice and control (44%) and promoting social justice and anti-oppressive practice.The three biggest challenges for the profession were a failure to fund social care adequately (67%), cuts to local services (61%) and having not enough time with people who use services (35%).The three biggest challenges in their roles that respondents cited were administrative demands and adequacey of staffing levels (both 51%) and workload demand (47%).Among this group, 24% were working at least 10 hours extra per week on average.

72% were unable to complete their workload within their contracted hours.

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