by Allan Norman

I had a sense of déjà vu as I read the decision of the Care Standards Tribunal in the appeal of Tricia Forbes published last week, see Forbes v General Social Care Council [2008] EWCST 1267(SW) (03 October 2008). I have previously commented on the tribunal's decision earlier this year in respect of Lisa Arthurworrey.

I might have called it indicative of a trend: certainly, these are not the only social workers who have been flailing at the deep end with insufficient experience to manage allocated child protection cases; sadly, they are not the only ones to have been let down by systems of management and supervision that should have been there to support them; tragically, they are not the only ones left to take the rap for child protection tragedies.

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