by Daniel Lombard

If social work and tabloid newspapers have always been uneasy bedfellows, the row over Deidre Sanders' continued involvement in efforts to improve the profession has reinforced the feeling that it was never going to be a match made in heaven.

The General Social Care Council's invitation to The Sun's problem page editor to its annual conference left dozens of CareSpace users outraged.

While some defended her appearance and status as a Social Work Task Force member, others took the view that the values of her employer were so fundamentally incompatible with social work's as to render the partnership unworkable, and launched an online petition calling on the GSCC to withdraw its invitation.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/10/why-deidre-was-wrong-to-crow-a.html