by Allan Norman

Last week,  l watched Esther Rantzen take on what the programme writers decided to label "the PC brigade".

Now I know I am writing for a social work audience, and I have seen the controversy generated by her documentary elsewhere. Nonetheless, I am going to take as my starting point that we can agree that her central thesis is correct. That is, that our society is developing in a direction where we fear interacting with children, and where we are suspicious of those who do interact with children. And that this direction is harmful to children, including to effective protection of children from real harm.

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