Birmingham has twenty court welfare officers in three teams, undertaking all civil work in the city. As the largest group of civil workers in the country, they have found it difficult to share common identity. They recently spent a day examining the ideas and myths each team feels about the others, and identified nine tensions within their welfare role.
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