[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by bobnot

A female called angus thats a strange one!
You still havent described how you personally would come up with a 100% system of securing a childs safety!

Social services do an amazing job and i dare say make a hell of a lot less mistakes in their job than you and people in your proffesion do whatever that may be im beginning to smell a privately educated person in the private sector here and of course they are perfect

Please enlighten us mere mortals how 100% perfection can be acquired have you never made one single mistake in your job? no i doubt it but that mistake doesnt make national news does it.

There is a town in Scotland called Angus. It doesn't necessarily have to correlate to gender. Pyramid doesn't evoke an automatic gender association - neither does Angus, but as I said earlier, I was under the impression from other posts, that Angus was female. (apols Angus58 if you aren't!!)

Privately educated person here (age 11 onwards, up to then, most certainly state schools), who works in a very privately owned sector - and has done for the vast majority of my 20 working years. I've also worked in various goverment depts as well as in the NHS - and a as far as the government depts are concerned, a lazier, shoddier type of workforce I have never encountered in my life.

No need for the superscillious tone. I'm quite entitled to my opinion, I'm quite entitled to validate my opinion by the reasons I have already given -so there is no need for you to make this personal. If my job involved an error which could result in the death of an young child, I'd most certainly ensure that I was beyond reproach every single step of the way.

I'll ask you again... how many red flags, warning lights, public expressions of concern, do you think they should have allowed to pass before taking any action? It appears very much that you think they were quite correct not to take action - giving that you don't seem to agree that in this case, that is has been handled terribly.

We aren't speaking of the services they provide overall in which they provide the attention that is needed - afterall, as I said, that is the very purpose, the very existence of the role of a social worker, it's the reason they are there. If they fail and at such levels as this: it is quite correct that they are brought into question. It is this particular section, those who deal with children who are at risk, that they know are at risk, that's the side of Social Services departments that I fail to be impressed with.