Bloody social worker

Wills, Richard2022

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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. This book 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.