David Cameron used Prime Minister's Question Time yesterday to flag the Conservative Party's policy on publishing serious case reviews in full - and left Gordon Brown accusing the leader of the opposition of being "isolated" from the experts.
Referring to a case in Doncaster currently going through the courts, Cameron complained that only a summary of the SCR would be published.
Brown replied that every voluntary organisation and professional he knew were in agreement that this should continue to be the case.
I don't know how many social work practitioners the prime minister does know or even encounters, but perhaps Outside Left can point him in the direction of Perdeep Gill for a different professional perspective.
Gill, a child protection specialist, told a plenary at last year's Community Care Live that a more transparent SCR system was essential to rebuild confidence in social work.
She was not calling for the naming of the parties involved - and neither is Cameron.
However, she said of executive summaries: "We are left to speculate why professionals made the judgements they made. What was in the minds of those professionals? What was the chronology? What was recorded?"
So Gordon Brown, Perdeep Gill is one expert who agrees with the Cameron proposal.
Are there any others out there?
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