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My name is Amy Davies. I'm a social worker.
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I work for Caerphilly County Borough Council.
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The family that I've been
working with at the moment,
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when I first met her,
she had no confidence in herself.
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I needed to knock those barriers
down, so we need to go in it there,
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empower them and say, you know,
you're doing a really good job here.
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Find the things that she's passionate about,
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find the things that she's good at
and really work with them.
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So, it's actually building
about those relationships.
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I qualified as a social worker when I was 33.
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Prior to this I was a foster carer.
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As a foster carer I was also
working in the call centre.
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Working for a call centre really
did not do anything for me.
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I never felt fulfilled and that's when I knew
that actually my passion was in care.
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That's what any social worker wants.
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To be able to close a case down and know
that family have done everything they can do;
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they are doing well, they're thriving,
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and will go on and not need
social work intervention, ever again.
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What I love about my job is, you know,
no two days are the same.
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The people I meet, the families that I
have the privileged to work alongside.
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This family have gone from really needing us
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to then not and it's when you see them
realise that they've got that strength
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and they find themselves again,
to me, that's amazing, that's brilliant.