 Hello, my name is Louise and I'm a senior social worker working for West Sussex County Council. I love being a social worker. I enjoy my job. I enjoy my role. I joined social work to make a difference. As times progressed I do know that I do make a difference in people's life and that makes me proud. I think there has been positive outcomes out of the last couple of years and I think that as a team we kept each other safe if we had difficult cases and we were a debrief after and my manager is amazing and so is my supervisor who I've been lucky to have all the way through from when I started with West Sussex. I feel it's made us look at how important human contact is, people are lonely and people are isolated and I think the last two years has actually brought back to the front end of our minds and that we now realise how much more important that is because we've all been through it now ourselves working from home and working in sort of isolation. I think in my role I support individuals and families through difficult times. I work with vulnerable adults to ensure they're safe, guarded from harm and also I think we empower people and advocate for people and their behalf and sometimes it's a small change, it's just the support, just listening to people, just being there and respecting their wishes and views about what they want to happen in their lives. I think in our role we need to all stand up and be proud that we're social workers and we do do our best, it's a hard job, it's not an easy job, it's hard, extremely hard, we see a lot of awful situations and we try to help and I think we need more positive publicity around being in the social care system as a social worker or a social care worker and just how positive it can be.