Save the Social Worker

MARCH 13, 2023

After 2 years being a social worker in a Family Service Centre (FSC) in Singapore, earning all of $3600 per month, before having a pay bump to $3690 in my second year (which I asked for), I realised that we were so sheepish about talking about money, that social workers were actually struggling. Well, well.

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Save the Social Worker

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’re thinking of doing social work in the family service centre (FSC). Just as your GP doctor would see any ailment you had before deciding where best to direct you, or to help you, the FSC social worker is also similar. But I will give it anyway, especially as someone who did badly at a Family Service Centre.

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NCCPR Child Welfare Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2023

. ● Tearing apart families because of foster-care panic is common; admitting that’s why you’re doing it is not. But this story from WitnessLA includes the case of a Los Angeles mother who was investigated by the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services but initially allowed to keep her children.

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