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  • No excuses for paedophiles

    by Natalie Valios Occasionally, decisions by the judiciary make my heart sink. A case in point is the story in today’s papers which reports on a court case involving 20-year-old Jon Dixon who tried to rape an 11-year-old girl.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-09-2008

  • Josef Fritzl: Austrian idyl cracks

    by Adam McCulloch The story of Josef F , of humble Amstetten, has ushered Austria into a new period of self-doubt, even deeper than that brought on by the discovery of Natascha Kampusch's imprisonment in a cellar in 2006.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008

  • Strictly Baby Fight Club: Channel 4's kids fighting shocker

    by Adam McCulloch Don't like to use this medium to depress people, especially so soon after dismissing the Children's Society poll on children's well-being as being too pessimistic, but most people who saw Channel 4's Strictly Baby Fight Club last night will come away feeling disturbed...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-25-2008

  • Unfair repercussions of legal aid changes

    From October 1st last year no legal aid funding has been available for placements in family assessment centres - used when care proceedings have begun to assess parents' parenting ability. This means that such placements now have to be soley funded by councils. The repercussions of this are now starting...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-09-2008

  • Re: Are unqualified staff dangerous?

    No they are not, what is dangerous is an individual persons unwillingness to learn and move on, we are all unqualified to start with and we are taught by the people who know best the service user and their informal support. By listening and hearing what a person wants we can learn alot. The only reason...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by sonyaw331 on 04-04-2008

  • Jersey: Island of Secrets

    Where there’s abuse, there’s denial. That’s the picture emerging from the Jersey child abuse investigation. While no evidence has yet been tried in court – with just one person charged to date – the accounts of former residents of children’s homes are shocking, as last night's Panorama revealed.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-01-2008

  • Jersey: the floodgates open

    by Maria Ahmed People in Jersey are finally speaking out in the wake of child abuse allegations on the island. Earlier this month, there was a public rally in support of victims. People used the meeting to criticise the way in which the Jersey authorities have handled the current investigation into abuse...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-18-2008

  • Forced marriage: does this poster offend?

    by Adam McCulloch There are reports this morning that there has been an outbreak of, as one MP puts it, “lily-liveredness” in schools concerning an anti-forced marriage government poster (pictured). Some headteachers are concerned that the poster will offend parents, perhaps because forced marriage is...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-14-2008

  • Why does Lisa Arthurworrey want to be a social worker?

    Sitting through Lisa Arthurworrey’s appeal hearing at the Care Standards Tribunal last week, the question going through my mind was not whether she should be allowed to become a registered social worker but why on earth she would want to return to the profession that has caused her life to unravel.
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-12-2008

  • Re: Media presentation of child protection work

    There's nothing the media like better than an easy target and social workers are a very easy target. What they do is little understood, most people will never have contact with them and they are often prevented from standing up for themselves. Much of the media in this country is very simple-minded...
    Posted to Social work profession (Forum) by Tony Tony on 02-08-2008
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