by Mithran Samuel

Sharon Shoesmith's interviews with The Guardian and Radio 4's Woman's Hour on Saturday were, in some senses, social work's equivalents of the infamous clash between David Frost and Richard Nixon in 1977.

In both cases, the subject of the interview was a publicly vilified figure associated with a national scandal who had been particularly criticised for failing to show sufficient contrition.

In both cases, they saw it as an opportunity to rewrite the record by putting their side of the story. In both cases, what the listening/reading/viewing public was after was a confession.

However, the chances of the Shoesmith interviews leaving a fraction of the mark left by Frost/Nixon are slim to non-existent.

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