Justice For Families

[Hope]

EDM 692 COMMUNITY CARE AND SOCIAL WORK04.02.2009


Hemming, John
That this House supports Community Care magazine in its campaign for support for social work; recognises that recent inaccurate media attacks on social work have damaged morale in the profession; welcomes the support in the profession for greater transparency and a more explanatory approach to practice; calls on the Government to acknowledge that social work is about people and not paperwork and technology; further recognises that many social workers do an important and effective job in difficult circumstances; and believes that this must not be forgotten.
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Hemming, John
Reed, Andy
Holmes, Paul
Bottomley, Peter
Corbyn, Jeremy
Drew, David
Jones, Lynne

[johnhemming]

It is important to recognise that there is good practise as well as bad.

People may wish to listen to the podcast as well.

[Hope]

I agree its important to drive out the bad and retain the good
social workers - at present it seems to be the other way round

[Andrew]

The norm is to cover anything up.

With this being standard practice it will be very hard to get good social work recognized simply because right now everything is said to be perfect & it is not - So how does the public know when good social work is carried out? or that they are being told the truth?

Good social work can only be recognized when there is transparency, honesty & proper decisions being taken by professionals, until then in my view all are suspect of being part of a broken machine.

[johnhemming]

Which in part is why I say it is in the interests of the better social workers to deal with those who should not be doing the job.

[Secrets]

If we have public debate on SS policies, we can break through "group think" or their tendency to take extreme decisions.

By getting public feedback, the SS will know which policies aren't acceptable to the public (at the moment, these remain "under the carpet").
And making allegations such as Welsh schools cause mental retardation, or grandparents can't keep the children, they have to go for gay adoption, irritates the taxpayer when then hear them (fostering and adoption fees don't come cheap, especially when they aren't required).

Some social workers are not good. That much is clear.

If some SS are willing to work on an open basis, then we've got to back them.

[Hope]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK5UqvvtICc


with enough proof the bad ones might all leave and the good my feel confident enough to speak out

[Andrew]

Which in part is why I say it is in the interests of the better social workers to deal with those who should not be doing the job.

You're right.

I was simply stating the echoing the sentiment not challenging any part of it.

I think it is a good EDM.