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Posts Tagged: Social Workers

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 »

26 November 2012

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 »

24 November 2012

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 »

24 November 2012

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 »

23 November 2012

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 »

19 November 2012

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 »

11 November 2012

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 »

10 November 2012

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 »

6 October 2012

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 »

28 September 2012

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 »

26 September 2012

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 »

19 September 2012

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 »

9 September 2012

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 »

18 July 2012

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 »

27 February 2012 | 5 comments

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 »

19 November 2011

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