Children's secretary Ed Balls has accused social workers of of "barking up the wrong tree" when they blame excessive bureaucracy for keeping them away from the front line.
At the National Children and Adult Services Conference just now Balls was asked by a member of the audience whether he was going to stand back and stop imposing "heavy handed, bureaucratic responses" on social workers, which stop them spending time on the front line.
Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2009/10/ed-balls-social-workers-are-ba.html
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