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Time to fight back against The Sun's woeful Baby P coverage

Oh dear - our friends at The Sun are at it again. The tabloid's report of the General Social Care Council conduct hearings for the Peter Connelly case in the 27 May edition is not only biased but inaccurate. They even managed to get the GSCC's...

Published 27 May 2010 5:22 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Community Care, General Social Care Council, stand up now for social work, The Sun, workforce
How the papers reacted to the social work task force reforms

If you were in any doubt how massive a reform of social work yesterday's task force report has set in motion, you need only look at the varying degree of coverage across the mainstream news outlets. Read More...

Published 2 Dec 2009 11:06 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, conduct, social work, social workers, The Sun
Memorable experience for journalist turned social work conference speaker

by Daniel Lombard At Community Care it's important for us to get out and meet people in the sector to inform our work as journalists, and conferences are a great way to do this. This week I've attended two in just over 24 hours - the first in...

Published 16 Oct 2009 1:38 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: daniel lombard, gscc, Media, social work, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Did Dear Deidre tame the social work dragon?

by Daniel Lombard The most hotly-debated event in this year's social work calendar finally arrived yesterday with the General Social Care Council's annual conference. Having backed her employers' witch-hunt against social workers in the wake...

Published 15 Oct 2009 1:44 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, daniel lombard, deidre sanders, Media, social work, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Why Deidre was wrong to crow about The Sun's toxic campaign

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...

Published 9 Oct 2009 2:37 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Baby Peter, daniel lombard, deidre sanders, stand up now for social work, The Sun
The Deidre Debate: should the Sun's agony aunt be allowed to speak?

by Bronagh Miskelly The decision by the GSCC to invite Sun agony aunt Deidre Sanders to speak at it conferenc e was inevitably going to be controversial , it would have been foolish to expect anything else. I should know - the decision to ask Sanders...

Published 2 Oct 2009 11:01 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Bronagh Miskelly, deidre sanders, General Social Care Council, gscc, Media, social work, social workers, stand up now for social work, The Sun, workforce
Was The Sun really backing Labour?

by Adam McCulloch I don't think anyone could argue that The Sun has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Labour Party over the past few years, in fact since the turn of the century. So its pompous announcement last night that it was backing the Conservatives...

Published 30 Sep 2009 10:53 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, Labour, Media, newspapers, Politics, The Sun
Jailed Doncaster employee was not social worker

by Maria Ahmed Doncaster Council has slammed media reports describing an employee jailed for child pornography offences as a "social worker." Michael Tombs was a "sessional worker" in playgroups and holiday schemes for disabled children...

Published 16 Jul 2009 2:42 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Daily Mail, doncaster, maria ahmed, Media, social work, The Sun
Phone hacking allegations against News of the World: all tabloid targets beware

by Adam McCulloch So, News of the World journalists, and reporters from other papers, have resorted, en masse, it is said, to phone hacking via private detectives . I don't want to be accused of making tenous links just to get a few web hits, but...

Published 10 Jul 2009 1:50 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, Andy Coulson, Media, News of the World, phone hacking, Rebekah Wade, stand up now for social work, television programme, The Sun
Take a Break backs Community Care to share social work success stories

by Emma Maier There was a time when former prime minister Tony Blair could easily summon an interview with almost any leading media outlet around the world. Yet there was one vitally important publication that remained aloof: Take a Break . Now, the weekly...

Published 25 Jun 2009 1:06 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Media, stand up now for social work, The Sun, workforce
Farewell, Ed Balls - and good riddance

The forthcoming cabinet reshuffle could see us bidding farewell to the children's secretary if he fulfils his ambition of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer. As the first ever secretary of state to oversee children's well-being, Ed Balls has...

Published 2 Jun 2009 11:33 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, beverley hughes, ed balls, General Social Care Council, Sharon Shoesmith, The Sun
Sun asks readers how social work could be improved

By Emma Maier Deidre Sanders, The Sun's agony aunt and member of the Social Work Taskforce, has set up a survey to find out what Sun readers think should be changed to get social work "back on its" feet, the paper reports . But is she asking...

Published 1 May 2009 12:15 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: dear dedire, deidre sanders, Media, Social Work Taskforce, The Sun, workforce
Community Care meets The Sun

By Emma Maier I have a confession to make. I spent yesterday evening with a senior journalist from The Sun . And he wasn't all bad. Read More...

Published 1 Apr 2009 9:56 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, Emma Maier, Media, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Beware: Sun radio

By Emma Maier I kid you not. The Sun is apparently launching a radio station. What does this mean for social workers, who are, as we well know, the paper's favourite cannon fodder? Read More...

Published 19 Mar 2009 3:14 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Emma Maier, Media, The Sun
Social care mustn't fall into The Sun trap

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...

Published 13 Mar 2009 10:13 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Adam McCulloch, General Social Care Council, gscc, Kelvin Mackenzie, language, local authorities, Media, Question Time, social work, social workers, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Standing up for social work: our letter to British Press Awards

As part of our Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign , Community Care is writing to the organisers and judges of the British Press Awards, which has shortlisted The Sun's Baby P coverage as its "campaign of the year". Read More...

Published 12 Mar 2009 10:43 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: british press awards, social workers, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Setting The Sun straight

By Emma Maier As part of Community Care 's Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign -which is calling for more suport for social workers from the media, government and employers - we have been keeping an eye close eye on how the media reports social...

Published 11 Mar 2009 12:27 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Emma Maier, Media, stand up now for social work, The Sun
We all need to stand up for social work

By Emma Maier You have told Community Care that you have had enough of inaccurate, misleading and hostile media coverage of social work - and we agree. We've launched the Stand Up Now for Social Work campaign to fight back and show the public what...

Published 11 Mar 2009 12:09 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Emma Maier, Media, stand up now for social work, The Sun
Laming report "leaked" to the News of the World

By Maria Ahmed, Deputy News Editor Lord Laming's review of child protection ordered after Baby P appears to have been leaked to the News of the World ahead of its official publication on Thursday. Whether or not the content reported by the paper is...

Published 9 Mar 2009 12:34 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, child protection, children in care, David Cameron, ed balls, Gordon Brown, Haringey, lord laming, the news of the world, The Sun, victoria climbie
The Sun - mis-informed or wilfully inaccurate?

By Emma Maier The Sun newspaper continues to blunder through it's coverage of the Baby P case - the latest development, according to the Sun , is that the General Medical Council has SUSPENDED the child's family GP but that social worker STILL...

Published 20 Feb 2009 10:11 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, Emma Maier, Media, The Sun
Community Care calls on Sun to support UK social workers

by Daniel Lombard Following the conclusion of the trial of the carers of Baby P, The Sun led a major campaign against the social workers who worked with the child. In an open letter to the newspaper Daniel Lombard asks its editor, Rebekah Wade, to rethink...

Published 29 Jan 2009 3:55 PM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: Baby P, conduct, General Social Care Council, social work, The Sun
Gordon, please don't sack Ivan Lewis!

by Mithran Samuel The papers today are awash with stories that care services minister Ivan Lewis could be sacked in the forthcoming reshuffle. Read More...

Published 18 Aug 2008 9:52 AM by The Social Work Blog

Filed under: adult social care, dementia, ivan lewis, Mithran Samuel, New Labour, Politics, the daily mail, the daily telegraph, The Independent on Sunday, The Sun, Treasury, Valuing People

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