Example sentences of "the social workers [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social workers speak a language of " task-centred social work " — a reference to a course of programmed activities with clients ; the nurses speak of behavioural change programmes — again , a reference to sustained work with clients , although not entirely identical to social work approaches . |
| 2 | The social workers told me I would like the home and that I could stay on at my old school and still have the same friends . |
| 3 | Not only do the social workers regard the admissions as a failure , but the parents may be poorly informed about the purpose of the admission , its duration and the expectations which it places on them . |
| 4 | The social workers experienced the child abuse system in a variety of ways . |
| 5 | The only message some of them had had time to give their children as the social workers took them to waiting cars was ‘ have faith , be strong , we 'll do what we can ’ . |
| 6 | It is known , too , that Charles Fraser , one of the social workers involved in the abuse inquiries in the family of fifteen , and in the cases in question , is a member of the Orkney Christian Fellowship . |
| 7 | ‘ All the social workers come in from their comfortable homes in the suburbs , while the priest actually lives in the parish . |
| 8 | She promised violent action if the social workers put one foot on the stairs , and went to get the children up and dressed herself , accompanied and watched by a policewoman ; then her eight-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son were taken away without further comment , but the policewoman encouraged the children to take some clothes and other possessions with them . |
| 9 | Some of the social workers followed suit . |
| 10 | The social workers had gone to his room and woken him , and he followed them downstairs , He had heard what was happening to his sisters , and was very distressed . |
| 11 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 12 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 13 | Since Lord Clyde said in his inquiry report that the social workers had acted in good faith , the social workers would have to keep her children to prove they did the right thing in the first place , she said . |
| 14 | Cecilia eventually hit out against the home 's petty rules and forced the social workers to come up with an alternative . |
| 15 | The fifteen-year-old boy leapt from his bed with escape in mind , but he decided it would be unfair to leave his eleven-year-old brother to face what was to come alone , so he got back into bed and waited for the social workers to come upstairs . |
| 16 | ‘ I accept that the local authority and the social workers behaved in the way in which they did in error , but it is an important constitutional matter , and to mark the position , and so that local authorities shall not be under any misapprehension about their powers , I order that the costs of this application be paid by the local authority . |
| 17 | They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all . |
| 18 | Despite the policy commitment to developmental work in Nottinghamshire social services department , the CMHTs were under great pressure to take on a normal casework function even in advance of developing needed services : health service priorities favoured immediate casework support ; area teams in the social services department hoped to off-load casework with mentally handicapped people — not least to focus more fully on work with children and families ; and the social workers recruited to the CMHTs were confident in their casework skills but needed to adopt new roles , skills , and ways of working if development work was to become a reality . |
| 19 | It is the skilled job of the social workers to help the foster parents cope by understanding their anxiety , explaining the child 's difficulties and helping them to get along together . |
| 20 | The social workers commented that in this very ‘ stuck ’ situation something had to give to get any movement ; it was necessary to encourage the daughter to take the independence she should have had many years ago . |
| 21 | Strong pressures notwithstanding , the social workers undertook a substantial developmental role . |
| 22 | The social workers say they have a duty to prepare the seventeen year old for independent life as an adult . |
| 23 | What did the social workers expect to find ? |
| 24 | It was also obvious that the importance of the emotional links between these children and their respective birth fathers was missed or under-estimated by the social workers making the placement . |