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Article: [pounds sterling]57,000 to prove social work students want to be, er, social workers; Critics say money should have gone on hiring new staff.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 26, 2005
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Byline: GRAHAM GRANT
THOUSANDS of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent on research that discovered students take social work degrees - because they want to be social workers.
The exercise - costing [pounds sterling]57,000 - was carried out by civil servants at the Scottish Executive.
They hired a market research firm to conduct a survey of 300 social work students. It aimed to find out their reasons for wanting to study social work, as part of a bid to find out if Executive policies aimed at improving recruitment were working.
But the survey was last night condemned by critics who claimed the money should have been spent on hiring ...