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Newspaper and broadcast editors have welcomed the message of the Association of Directors of Social Services' incoming president Mike Leadbetter this week.

Speaking to an audience of 150 regional, national and local newspaper and broadcast editors, Leadbetter spoke of the "disproportionate attention on some trivial issues and the lack of proportionate attention on major issues" by the UK press in its coverage of social care and social work issues.

"There is a need for a much more measured debate and proportionate coverage," Leadbetter told Community Care after his speech in Belfast to the Society of Editors, which has 500 members in the UK newspaper and broadcast media.