Sun shortlisted for Baby P campaign award: our response

I think it is disgusting the way newspapers such as The Sun have pinpointed social workers as the culprits! I don't think they realise that if social workers were not in society, then there would be much more problems than there are today!
A lot of society has scapegoated social workers because they cannot accept that a mother could have done this against a defenceless child (Baby P).

Well done Community Care, you're definetly caring for the community and doing a wonderful job of it!

I am extremely concerned about the culture of blame targeting social workers. Can anyone please tell me what BASW are doing about this? We social workers are completely out on a limb when it comes to the right support needed by our own "so called" support systems. I really feel that I should not be contributing to BASW anymore as there appears to be no real public support for us.

Social workers have the most difficult and stressful job, when we get it right most of the time this is never reported. Having said all that I thoroughly enjoy my work, yes at time it is stressful but my reward is when I achieve the best outcome for the child and the family. I have worked in frontline social worker which was very difficult due to workload management is very heavy and understand why mistake is made.