by Adam McCulloch

Social care, particularly at management level, is hamstrung by its careful language when it comes to confronting The Sun and other tabloid newspapers, which it must do in the aftermath of the Baby P case. In social care language is tempered and tamed. It is non-judgmental, balanced and avoids implications of fault and blame. It reflects the complexity of the decisions made, and the involvement of different professions. It can be unemotional language and often very technical. Words like 'appropriate' proliferate. Can we combat tabloid newspaper distortion with this language? I doubt it.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/03/social-care-mustnt-fall-into-t.html

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Posted 13 Mar 2009 10:13 AM by The Social Work Blog | Report Abuse

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