The icy relationship between employers of social workers and the press was brought into focus last week when I began gathering reaction for a Community Care article on the profession's first ever national college.

I rang several contacts asking them for their views on the priorities of the college, which is being developed to provide a stronger national voice for social workers across the country.

Most of them were happy to be quoted, apart from one council-employed practitioner who asked me to wait until she received clearance from her employer.

She was desperate to take part, however, as she felt very strongly about the importance of the college.

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