In the wake of Baby P, here’s a new campaign, entitled Help Give Them a Voice, aimed at improving the public image of social workers. It features celebrities like Samantha Morton and Goldie talking about the help they’ve received from social workers when growing up.
I agree with Fighting Monsters that such a campaign is deeply necessary. All those social worker posts lying vacant need to be filled, and they need to be filled by good quality people. That simply won’t happen if social workers carry on being vilified and denigrated as they have been by the media.
Speaking of which, The Sun has an impressive amount of chutzpah, praising the campaign while forgetting its own role in giving social work such a lousy public image. Still, I suppose it’s better to have the Scum finally acknowledging that social workers need to be supported rather than demonised than for them to just carry on depicting them as ineffectual accessories to murder one minute and interfering apparatchiks of the Nanny state the next. Though I suspect they’ll go straight back to doing that next week.
God, how I hate the Sun. If the Sun were a person they would be an opinionated, boorish oaf of a person, with a big red face and a loud obnoxious voice. Make me cross they do with their incessant high horse bollocks.
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“If the Sun were a person they would be an opinionated, boorish oaf of a person, with a big red face and a loud obnoxious voice.”
I think Andrew Murdoch fits the bill quite nicely there.
Great idea, lousy name.
Give Them a Voice sounds like a charity for small children or animals – both of which need assistance in having their issues addressed.
Social workers are big adults, big qualified adults, who have a significantly greater voice than many members of the general public.
They don’t need help to give them a voice – they just need to use the one they have to better effect. The name of this organisation makes them sound somewhat helpless. Doesn’t seem very professional to me.
The voice being referred to is the vulnerable that social workers are there for though, not the social workers. That would be silly. At least I hope so anyway!
Ahhhh. Thanks Azulinebloo :> I still think it’s silly though!
Does anyone actually PAY for newspapers anymore? It’s all free online! If you don’t like a particular paper [and there are a lot of drivel printers out there] then don’t read it. Simples
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James Murdoch, I meant, not Andrew. The man who announced that daddykins is stopping free online versions of the Sun.
Jan, if you dislike James Murdoch, then you might have some fun reading this article by him in the Guardian in which he attacks the BBC.
The fun isn’t so much in the article itself but in the stream of comments left at the end in which he gets utterly eviscerated. A few choice selections from the comments thread:
Thanks to the “cost cutting” measures embraced by your father, serious journalism in the private sector is all but moribund. You and your rapacious corporate interests can go swivel.
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Quality journalism? From Murdoch? From the godfather of Fox “News” featuring sewer rats like Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and Glen Beck? Bitter, bitter, joke!
The Murdochs are to journalism as Charles Manson is to moral philosopphy.
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A yes man to your own father.
Are those really your views James?
Or are they the opinions that made Daddy notice you?