A further recommendation that "staff have the appropriate skills to inspect the safeguarding and child protection elements of frontline services" could be met at a stroke if the inspectors were practising social workers.
There is a widespread belief that this can only lead to collusion. Yet any professional person who knows that they will be formally visited by colleagues at some future date is most likely to take the authority given them by this task seriously and ethically.
Dr Sebastian Kraemer, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, Whittington Hospital
ISLINGTON DCS IS SECONDMENT
Islington is not outsourcing its director of children's services (DCS) role to a private company (CYP Now, 26 March-1 April).
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