A controversial database containing details of every child in England will be rolled out today to ensure "faster contact" between doctors, social workers and police if they suspect a child is at risk.

Looks like another stunning victory for social services. As ever, I say that if the problem was merely that social workers were untrained/over-worked/retarded or whatever, these horrors stories would occur pretty much at random. Ditto, with cases of social workers persecuting the innocent. On the contrary, the figures only tilt one way. Social workers have totally assimilated the cultural Marxist ...

There are very few films or TV programmes showing social workers in the way there are for nurses, doctors or the police . So news of a mainstream film focusing on a social worker should be good news? Well lets just say the words "Mariah Carey playing a social worker" made my hear sink. But it gets worse as she has to look dowdy for this role . Well of course she does, all social workers are dowdy ...

Looks like social workers are now officially too crazy even for fellow leftists: Social workers behaved like officials in 'Stalin's Russia or Mao's China' in attempting to remove children from loving mothers, senior judges have said.Needless to say, there's still a way to go. One judge manages to hit on two of the daftest clichés social workers use to excuse themselves, before finally hitting on ...

A task force set up to investigate the state of social work in Britain after the murder of Baby P under the very noses of social workers has come up with some wholly predictable and pointless recommendations. Basically, they suggest more pay and higher status for social workers. Yes, really. The reason Baby P wasn't helped, apparently, is that social workers - as well as, presumably, the poli...

Is it really such a bad thing that there aren’t “enough” social workers? After all, as Parkinson’s Law of Social Work states that social problems increase to occupy the total number of social workers available to deal with them Yes, that was me being facetious, but the point remains that we don’t need huge numbers of social

Foreign social workers who are trained to deal with children are to be fast-tracked into Britain under plans to halt an escalating recruitment crisis, the Observer has learnt. The migration advisory committee, which guides the government over skilled workers from outside the European Union, will make the recommendation to the home secretary, Jacqui Smith, this month. Social services departments ac...

You will be aware that in the weeks leading up to Christmas the Sun newspaper has managed to whip up a massive campaign against social workers blaming the individual social worker for the death of...

Workers accused of theft or damage could soon find themselves blacklisted on a register to be shared among employers. It will be good for profits but campaigners say innocent people could find it impossible to get another job. To critics it sounds like a scenario from some Orwellian nightmare. An online database of workers accused of theft and dishonesty, regardless of whether they have been convi...

Social workers are trying to improve their image post-Baby P, but the fact is they will always be controversial.