...a rare breed - a frontline social worker willing to talk to the press

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/Articles/2009/07/08/112051/joanna-nicolas-independent-social-worker-who-advises-media.html
...a rare breed - a frontline social worker willing to talk to the press

 

Oh, please..this article is not about a local authority frontline social worker talking about the day to day work they do, which would require an empoyers prior approval, as without they would get the sack or be suspended and or possibly referred to the GSCC. Anyone working as a locum/contractor/temp sorry 'consultant' also signs contracts that prevent them from discussing any work they do, unless of course they do so as a whistle blower, which again is likely to end in the sack and as a locum/contractor/temp/consultant they would have little if any avenues for legal redress at say an employment tribunal. It is just simple not to recruit a locum/contractor/temp/consultant anymore or just end their services, which can be done without much need for any explanation. So anyone with a voice in the press with obviously engage in a very, very large dose of self concerning censorship anything they say, infer, that is unless they have other means to put bread on the table. This article makes the social worker the story, in much the same way as Andy Coulson is now becoming the story.

Interesting I have been talking with different Journalists etc for years as an area social worker in my pen name of Rachel Bramble [ because my colleagues were scared stiff] and now as a school social worker but rarely got beyond the telephone chat. Perhaps I did some of the ground work for Joanna ha ha

Yes I was on woman's hour too once at the end of a phone and have met some decent members of the media who I keep in touch with.

Well done Joanna but where were you when we tried to get folk to ' Believe in me' at Stafford Gatehouse Theatre on 25 Sept 2008 which I plugged like hell last year  on here and everywhere including many media sites and only one member of the media joined me, the Profs [ including Sue White] and the two MP's and BASW

My Headteacher told me yesterday that most Headteachers are cynical spos from time to time  I am too