BLOODY SOCIAL WORKER

<p><span style=color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>On Monday 30</span><sup style=color: rgba(13 13 13 1)> </sup><span style=color: rgba(13 13 13 1)>November 2020 Richard Wills resign</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ed. Burnt out unable to take it anymore and with his health shot to pieces he decided that being a social worker was no longer him. <br></span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>BLOODY SOCIAL WORKER</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - mallet and memoir </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>documents his 32 years on the front line in 'Madchester' and Oldham together with his childhood in Cumbria. <br></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This isn't a dry academic splodge of a book though about processes and policy but one which illuminates the glorious tragic funny and enchanting figures he came across. <br> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stumbling into moving taxis looking after 'Salman Rushdie's' cat witnessing fights between Mr T (blind) and Mr M (Down's syndrome) on the disco floor </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> in a helicopter Wills invites you into his former world and simply asks you to look at complex individuals - those who perplex and amuse - with fresh eyes. <br></span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'Wills makes your brain tingle and your heart ache as he takes you through the tunnel of society's most serious issues. Yet the process feels like a delicate breeze as he honours the downtrodden. Sharp informative and laugh-out-loud in unexpected places'  Aidan Martin author of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Euphoric Recall </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><br></span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>'A fascinating peek into the world of social work. Emotional honest and sometimes brutal but with wonderful deft touches of humour' Mick Ferry comedian / purveyor of lugubrious surrealism <br></span></p><p><br></p>