Edited sentence: Clients and others thus tend to think of social workers as paper-pushers.In many regions social workers are seeking efforts to professionalize the profession.Many regions have passed legislation making it illegal to use the title social worker without a license.Social workers are often criticized because they are identified with the bureaucracy of their organizations.Social workers often have to ask clients to fill out time-consuming paperwork and sign large numbers of documents as a requirement of their jobs.Social workers would respond that often problems with social workers can be traced to poor pay, inadequate training, excessive case loads, inadequate funding, and bad government policies.The reason social workers are singled out is because they are the ones who directly face and deal with the public.These boards have the authority to punish social workers who violate their legislation through fines, suspension or revocation of their license.This prevents unqualified persons from acting under the title of social worker and has resulted in the creation of discipline boards.This protects the public by having social workers accountable to their code of ethics