| | Weinbren, Martin
|  | | Martin Weinbren has written 'King Welfare', a novel set against the background of child care social work in the UK's Midlands. It tells, sometimes harshly, but with absolute honesty what this often-discussed but little-known profession actually does. Sometimes amusing, sometimes very sad, the story of social workers exposing a hidden world in our midst is both fascinating and horrifying.
Martin started working in social work in 1975, qualifying in 1979. Following that he worked in Hertfordshire, London, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire, as a social worker, social work manager, trainer and policy officer. He left local government in 2003 to work with a firm of solicitors in employment law, and has more recently been employed to advise social work staff across the UK on issues of social work and employment law. He consequently has a broad up-to-date knowledge of social work and employment law in most areas in the UK, and has been involved with some of the most high-profile social workers in the UK.
His interests include music, cookery, travel and running (more as a spectator than a participant nowadays).
Martin is married with grown-up children and lives in Newark in Nottinghamshire with his wife, Janet and two dogs, Max and Tess.
The people and situations portrayed in King Welfare are fictitious, although entirely realistic. Similar situations have occurred and still occur, and the characters are not unusual in the settings portrayed.
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