Social work training is where the seeds of scandal are sown
Give me a student undertaking a three year social work degree, consisting of the most unadulterated Marxist rubbish, and I… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Social Workers
Labour should be ashamed of Rotherham Council
On October 12th 2010 Laura Wilson, 17-year-old single mother in Rotherham was murdered by Ashtiaq Asghar. She was stabbed and… Read more »
Rotherham Council remove foster children from couple because they support UKIP
There is a chilling account in the Daily Telegraph of children being removed from foster carers by Rotherham Council. The… Read more »
Seven out of eight offering to adopt are thwarted
Adoption Week took place from November 5-11. Among the messages to encourage people to come forward was to attack the… Read more »
Scandal of the “Looked After Children” sent home to face more abuse
In a speech to the IPPR think tank last week, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, spoke about the terrible delays… Read more »
Councillors should visit children’s homes – and push for as many as possible to be closed
If you were a paedophile what would be your perfect job? That's right – working for a local authority children's… Read more »
More children should be taken into care – but they shouldn’t stay there
I generally find that policy papers from think tanks have more credibility than reports from select committees of MPs. First… Read more »
Revealed: The Conservative councils opposing the Government’s adoption reforms
Last month I wrote about the disgraceful opposition from three charities to the Government's proposals to help more children in… Read more »
Institutional racism is keeping black children in care
The Macpherson Report, which investigated the Metropolitan Police over their response to the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, defined… Read more »
Increase in number of children in care
The news is not quite as bad as it sounds. The number of "Looked After Children", in other words children… Read more »
Councils are failing to scrap red tape for foster carers
The Government is consulting on proposals to reduce red tape for foster carers. Often Conservatives think of cutting burdensome bureaucracy… Read more »
NSPCC pushing to keep children in care
There was a disgraceful letter (£) to The Times published on Wednesday. Written by Andrew Flanagan (CEO, NSPCC) Natasha Finlayson… Read more »
Turning round troubled families means ending the false kindness of delay
Localism means that different councils will respond differently to the Troubled Families Initiative. Their financial rewards are for succeeding –… Read more »
Councils will be forced to publish figures on adoption breakdown
The main argument of the social work establishment for keeping children in care rather than placing them for adoption is… Read more »
Housing rules should help those wishing to foster and adopt
One reason social workers are often resistance to adoption is that they dislike the prospect of children from council estates… Read more »