How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media

Leedham, Maria (2023). How negative perceptions of social workers are reinforced in the media. In Community Care Community Care.

URL: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/12/how-neg...

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Academic research shows how social work is misrepresented in newspapers and on TV.

Hostile media coverage’

‘Blame culture’

Social workers as ‘cultural scapegoats’ or ‘child snatchers’.

These are just some of the claims made about how social workers are portrayed in the media. But is the media really so negative about social workers? And what does this negativity look like?

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