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 »
Give me a student undertaking a three year social work degree, consisting of the most unadulterated Marxist rubbish, and I… Read more »
On October 12th 2010 Laura Wilson, 17-year-old single mother in Rotherham was murdered by Ashtiaq Asghar. She was stabbed and… Read more »
There is a chilling account in the Daily Telegraph of children being removed from foster carers by Rotherham Council. The… Read more »
Adoption Week took place from November 5-11. Among the messages to encourage people to come forward was to attack the… Read more »
In a speech to the IPPR think tank last week, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, spoke about the terrible delays… Read more »
If you were a paedophile what would be your perfect job? That's right – working for a local authority children's… Read more »
I generally find that policy papers from think tanks have more credibility than reports from select committees of MPs. First… Read more »
Last month I wrote about the disgraceful opposition from three charities to the Government's proposals to help more children in… Read more »
The Macpherson Report, which investigated the Metropolitan Police over their response to the murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993, defined… Read more »
The news is not quite as bad as it sounds. The number of "Looked After Children", in other words children… Read more »
The Government is consulting on proposals to reduce red tape for foster carers. Often Conservatives think of cutting burdensome bureaucracy… Read more »
There was a disgraceful letter (£) to The Times published on Wednesday. Written by Andrew Flanagan (CEO, NSPCC) Natasha Finlayson… Read more »
Localism means that different councils will respond differently to the Troubled Families Initiative. Their financial rewards are for succeeding –… Read more »
The main argument of the social work establishment for keeping children in care rather than placing them for adoption is… Read more »
One reason social workers are often resistance to adoption is that they dislike the prospect of children from council estates… Read more »