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A Day in the Life of ... Rebecca Carr-Hopkins (social worker/trainer)
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Rebecca Carr-Hopkins Independent Social Work Matters What is your position and what do you do on a day-to-day basis?
I'm an independent social worker/trainer. I spend most of my time delivering training to practitioners and managers in numerous local authorities and other social care organisations on a wide range of topics alongside delivery of specialist attachment training. In addition I undertake assessment work and/or offer interventions (I am one of very few freelance VIG Guiders) for local authorities and the family courts and offer clinical supervision to various professionals around the world!
How long have you been in this role and what brought you here?
I stopped working as a local authority social worker 9 years ago. My motivation for leaving was partly practical - I wanted more flexibility than was available within the local authority - but also driven by a desire to be able to work directly with service users again (I was in a front-line management role before I left). Initially I worked as a self-employed children's guardian and undertook a lot of expert reports for the family court which gave me both of my...
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