A social worker has been cleared of behaving in an inappropriate sexual manner towards his step-granddaughters . Anthony Smart was accused of loosening his dressing gown and asking one of the girls, known as Child A, for a "special hug", and Read More...
Posted to
The Social Work Blog
on 15 Feb 2010
Filed under: child protection, social workers, children and young people, workforce, social work, conduct
Former Calderdale Council social services chief Rod Ryall has pleaded not guilty to 10 counts of indecently assaulting three boys, all under 16, when he was a live-in house master at Aycliffe Approved School in the 1960s and 70s. Ryall was director of Read More...
Posted to
The Social Work Blog
on 15 Feb 2010
Filed under: child protection, social workers, children and young people, workforce, social work, children in care, conduct
25 February 2010 marks the tenth anniversary of Victoria Climbié's death. Over the course of the last decade there have been major changes in child protection policies in the UK. But for one social worker involved in the case, life is still frozen Read More...
Posted to
The Social Work Blog
on 11 Feb 2010
Filed under: child protection, social workers, workforce, victoria climbie, social work, conduct, Baby P, training, stand up now for social work
What a contrast in the reactions of this morning's
newspapers to the sentence handed down to paedophile nursery nurse Vanessa
George. Read More...
Posted to
Outside Left
on 16 Dec 2009
Filed under: Children, child protection, child abuse, Vanessa George, Little Ted's Day Centre Unit