Spending time on the frontline is what matters, children's secretary tells profession Child protection managers should spend less time in offices and more time supporting overworked social workers on the frontline, the children's secretary Ed Balls said today. Many social workers dealing with complex child abuse cases in England were too inexperienced and it was unacceptable for them not...

Reform criticised by Tories and Lib Dems as a 'quick fix', as recommendation for ring-fenced child protection budgets is rejected In a further response to the Baby P child abuse scandal, the government today committed £58m to plans for recruiting more top quality social workers in England. The children's secretary, Ed Balls, however, said he has not yet accepted a proposal for...

…again. David Davis What can be done about these people, who have got their teeth into the ankles of civilisation to this extent, but who are so wrong and so bad? And I didn’t necessarily mean the social workers either…. Posted in Announcements, British Media, Education, Events, LA Papers, Liberty   Tagged: Baby P, child abuse, children, Haringey, social workers, s...

Well, I guess all this debunks any charges that social workers soft-pedal child abuse where dealing with it would damage the leftist agenda. I guess beating Junior senseless is just one more of those wacky cultural quirks that do so much to enrich British life. Anyway, the left prefers to engage with the RoP. Hey, how's that working out? The Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (Minab) - a go...

Ed Balls, the children's secretary, yesterday ducked the key issue of whether child protection services were adequately funded, as he gave the government's response to the Baby P abuse scandal. Although he committed £58m to plans for recruiting more top-quality social workers in England, Balls did not respond to a proposal that child protection should get a ring-fenced budget that ...

The government is pumping £58 million to stop the exodus of social workers from the profession since the Baby P scandal broke.

SOCIAL workers should not face general attack in the aftermath of the Baby P case, Alex Salmond said yesterday.

The main problems faced by social workers today are caused by society’s suspicion of the adult-child relationship.

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 ...

Following the conclusion of the trial of the carers of Baby P, The Sun led a major campaign against the social workers who worked with the child. In an open letter to the newspaper, Community Care magazine’s Daniel Lombard asks its editor, Rebekah Wade, to rethink its agenda on social work issues, which could ultimately