The decisions that social workers are called upon to make are hard, and social workers need the ability to balance competing priorities, to see underneath the surface of a situation and to take courageous decisions where there is always a loser who will resent whatever call you have made. We know this, even if some media organisations do not, and the discussion within the children's profession has begun to focus ever more on the concept of complexity in decision making.
Those challenges of balance, complexity and courage also apply to those who are responsible for planning services for keeping children safe. But I see much less evidence of the government or key agencies understanding them.
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