Which of these pairs of shoes, so artfully modelled by my colleagues, is more suitable for a social workers?

According to the Mail, Southampton City Council believes it certainly isn't the pair on the right. It has apparently sent out a memo to workers in the children's services department instructing men to wear "dress shoes" and collars and banning female staff from wearing mini skirts.

Such an inflexible policy doesn't make sense to me - it should be horses for courses when it comes to clothes. There is likely to be some lively debate down on CareSpace about this issue.