Member News from TACT Fostering: World Social Work Day: Jan’s Story

Jan has been a TACT Supervising Social Worker since 2005. She talks about some of her proudest moments as a Social Worker.

I began my social care career working in a residential unit for adults with cerebral palsy. I did this for 14 years and then did my social work training. After I qualified, I worked in a childcare team for 5 years, then 5 years in a local authority fostering team. I then joined TACT in 2005. My favourite thing about TACT is the longevity of the foster placements that we have, and being able to provide forever families for young people.

I love it when children and young people progress, when they achieve things – be it academically or in a sport they never thought they could do. Sometimes it’s what can be overlooked which brings job satisfaction, a young child’s delight when maybe for the first time they go to school in a nice clean uniform and their hair is washed and tidy. Or a child’s excitement because in a school concert or on sports day there is a grown up in the audience or in the crowd cheering them on. 

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