Categories: life-and-musings
Date: 15 November 2008 20:01:50
The Sun (I refuse to link to them directly and give them another hit on their stats), has started a petition calling for everyone involved in the tragic case of Baby P to be sacked, from the most junior social worker to the head of childrens' services. How will this sort of witch-hunt* fix things, exactly? Apart from anything else, given that Social Services are already grossly under-resourced, with a massive staff turnover (I heard 70% on one report, but I wouldn't like to say how accurate that was), how will sacking staff and dumping their caseload on their already overworks colleagues prevent another tragedy? *Oh, I'm sorry, editor of The Sun, you took such great pains to point out that it wasn't a witch-hunt when you were interviewed on the radio, and here's me mentioning the phrase three times in one post. Because of course you and your sister paper The News of the World have never started anything that's got massively out of hand before, and you have absolute confidence that there won't be howling, torch-lit mobs marching on Haringey's council offices to burn the evil social workers. Don't you?