tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679464135721114040.post5653996689558778543..comments2023-04-10T01:45:54.912-07:00Comments on Updates from a Frontline Child Protection Team: Give over Gove!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09960549187141131908noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679464135721114040.post-89458562981721035062012-11-21T11:56:54.246-08:002012-11-21T11:56:54.246-08:00Wow you really have lost your faith in social work...Wow you really have lost your faith in social work! <br /><br />Agree with you about the politicisation of social work and frighteningly the Police have gone even further down that route with the recent elections.<br /><br />If I'm ever in the 'pool' I will check out that painting.<br /><br />Thanks for the comment.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09960549187141131908noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679464135721114040.post-84720329224631613772012-11-20T15:41:04.807-08:002012-11-20T15:41:04.807-08:00There are still a great many out here who share yo...There are still a great many out here who share your views Nigel, but the one item I would have introduced during Mr Gove's pep talk would have been a mirror, which I would have placed directly in front of him so that it would appear that he was talking to himself.<br /><br />Why....because it is successive governments who have produced the legislation and created the conditions for failure....by the continual political interference with the essential task....by not providing enough resources to undertake the task robustly and sensitively....by blindly believing in heirarchical organisational structures and the infallability of CEO's, sector leaders and other "experts", the majority of whom are self interested charlatans, they never fail....Sharon Shoesmith excepted.....the introduction of business modeling drawn from the commercial sector, together with the failed Chicago school of management philosophy...and the siren voices of the obsequious individuals who advise him.....what else..oh promoting the fallacy that social work is now a profession...because all those things we have to pay for are a load of bollocks....GSCC, HCPC, the College of Social Work, all employing failed social workers to represent us....and much more....we must not become the willing scapegoats of Mr Gove but hold the mirror up to him and ask him who sets the law,standards,and resources so that we can deliver on the governments obligations and duties....well blow me down if it isn't Mr Gove himself with a grip on the purse strings like a vice....<br /><br />A number of years ago when my belief in social work as a force for good started to diminish I went to the Lever Art Gallery in Liverpool to stand in front of William Holman Hunt's painting, The Scapegoat and after staring at it for over an hour I realised that it is the perfect symbol for social work representing our service users as well us and whilst I am not religious I was taken with the quote from the bible that accompanies the painting...."'And the Goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a Land not inhabited.' (Leviticus XVI, 22)....and that is what Mr Gove wants us to do....to piss off to Patagonia with all our troubled and troublesome service users....go and look at the paiting NIgel..it's worth an hour of anyone's timeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com