‘It’s Soul Destroying’: Why Barnet Social Workers Are on Strike

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Wed, 19/06/2024 - 21:05
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Wed, 19/06/2024 - 21:07

‘Four years ago, we were a very different service,’ says Kimberly Lawrence, a 38-year-old mental health social worker working for Barnet Council. However, since the council decided to implement a restructuring, taking social workers out of its multidisciplinary community mental health teams, the service is now experiencing ‘astonishingly high waiting lists,’ a spiralling workload and […]