Government responses to the tragic deaths of children known to children's services have led to organisational upheaval and the introduction of restrictive bureaucratic practices in a visible, but vain, attempt to prevent further tragedies occurring.
These wide-ranging measures appear impressive and in some instances are necessary and appropriate. For the most part, however, they represent a futile, but understandable, bid to eliminate the risk, ambiguity and uncertainty that is an unavoidable dimension of child and family social work.
Policy makers and politicians responsible for these initiatives are not interested in understanding how social workers stay focused on the child at the same time as establishing effective relationships with parents, who are invariably hostile to social work intervention.
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