The gloves are off in the latest row between Labour and the Tories over the coalition government's record on social work.
When former children's secretary Ed Balls (not the most popular minister among social workers, as memory serves) challenged education secretary Michael Gove to show stronger leadership for the sector in England, Gove's spokesperson hit back with the following quote:
"Ed Balls might not have trusted his ministers to do a good job but the secretary of state certainly does.
"Having held the brief for social workers and child protection since 2001, Tim Loughton is highly experienced and is already doing an outstanding job. He has achieved more in the past 100 days than Ed Balls ever did."
Who has the better record on social work - Labour, which set up the Social Work Task Force, or the coalition government, which has already started publishin serious case reviews in full, and set up a review into child protection?