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I'm Naomi
and I was an apprentice in social care.
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I have first-hand experience
of living within care.
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I had some really good social workers who
I had really positive relationships with.
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I could really tell
that they did care about me.
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So when I think about
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being a social worker myself,
I want to be that type of social worker.
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An apprenticeship
was exactly what I needed.
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I needed experience.
I still wanted to learn.
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I wasn't in a position where
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I could just go full into education
and not be earning a wage.
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So my apprenticeship allowed me to earn
and gain the qualification
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I needed to continue in my career path
and I wanted to go on to do my social work
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degree.
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I'm currently a third year
social work student.
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I didn't particularly
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know what I wanted to do, but I did know
that I wanted to make a difference.
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And I think that's fundamentally
what you do within social care,
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whether it's to one person's day
or a whole family's day.
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There's a real difference
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between someone who's just doing a job
to somebody who actually does care.