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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
Dana, what an excellent discussion of governmental responsibility... and the behavior of pendulums.
It convinced me you know your agency's mission, and how it is working in the real world.
Was this written just for the Cellar, or is it something of a report within your agency ?
I think your last was part is quite true here in the US too.
Certainly SW's get bad publicity on both ends of the decision spectrum.
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Thank you Lamplighter, that's a very nice thing to say. Those are partly observations based on my time as a member of our authority's Children and Young People's Scrutiny Panel, and as an active Regulation 33 visitor (as part of the local councillor 'Corporate Parenting' responsibility); and partly observations drawn from news analysis around the high profile cases, and the various investigations into the care system provoked by those cases. And yes it was written for the Cellar. My particular level of involvement (elected member) is not one that tends to require a lot of report writing.
heck of a lot of report reading though :P
I no longer sit on that committee, but I did for three years. Funnily enough I'm currently posted at the other end of the scale, as a sitting member of the Adult Health and Social Care Scrutiny Panel.