The Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers has developed a specialist website about hospice and palliative care social work: lots of interesting items.

These include a reference to Readers’s Digest NZ, which apparently does an annual survey of the most trusted professions. Social workers, at 26 the year before are now up to 24, after psychologists but before religious ministers. It is reprinted below (you may be wondering: no 3 is missing, but looking at the previous year, this was probably pilots):

New Zealand’s Most Trusted Professions List
1. Firefighters
2. Ambulance officers
4. Nurses
5. Doctors
5. Pharmacists
7. Veterinarians
8. Members of the Armed Forces
9. Teachers
10. Police officers
11. Judges
12. Scientists
13. Dentists
13. Childcare providers
15. Farmers
16. Locksmiths
17. Bus/train drivers
18. Electricians
19. Chefs
20. Hairdressers
21. Plumbers
22. Accountants
23. Psychologists/counsellors
24. Social workers
25. Mechanics
26. Religious ministers
27. Lawyers
28. Bartenders
29. Financial planners/advisers
30. Taxi drivers
31. Domestic cleaners
32. Professional footballers
33. Corporate CEOs
34. Journalists
35. Psychics/astrologers
36. Real Estate agents
37. Politicians
38. Car Salesmen
39. Sex workers
39. Telemarketers

The ANZSW palliative care website: http://www.anzasw.org.nz/news.html

The Reader’s Digest Trusted professionals website: http://www.readersdigest.co.nz/content/new-zealands-most-trusted-professions-for-2009/

Well, now you know where you stand in New Zealand: where would you stand in other countries, I wonder?

More piucs of the new St C’s. The new Anniversary Project leads on into the garden, here seen from above: