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Social worker students unable to live on inadequate bursaries

STUDENTS studying to be England’s next generation of social workers say they are suffering poverty because the bursaries which enable them to live are inadequate.

They have also accused social care minister Helen Whately of fobbing them off after she responded to an appeal for help with nothing but “warm words.”

An open letter sent to the minister was signed by more than 400 social work students.

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