Hi, I worked as a family support worker for awhile. I worked under a social worker in many different homes. My purpose was to work with families to keep them together, encourage children to go to school. teach some parents how to do basic cleaning, cooking, sensible shopping, in general good parenting. The children I worked with were all families in the lower income bracket. One family I worked with, the Mother was an achoholic, I just called at her home every day to check her kids were okay. This work keeps kids from going into care. As the job title says, Family Support Worker. Hope this helps, will tell you more if you wish, just ask.