Following a report from Community Care, social workers and charities are suggesting that there are not enough men in the Health & Social Care sector.
“Social work is a much broader and more complex profession than that, you can get a lot of satisfaction in working with people and seeing change,” says the learning and development programme manager at Extern, a charity working with child and adults affected by social exclusion.
“For a lot of young men I have worked with there is a dearth of positive male role models and having more male social workers and youth workers would change that,” he adds.
It seems that young men are far less likely to chose social care as a career path, as it is increasingly being seen as a female suited environment. However Most young men fail to realise that the social care sector is in dire need for male roe models or young males in care.
Stepping Out sat down with some of their own employees, and asked if they felt there was a imbalance between male and female support workers.
One particular employee pointed out that, “Social workers and commissioners with higher ranks within social care seem to be pre-dominantly male, whereas the support workers themselves are more likely to be female.”
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