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Mark Bfield — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 09:47:26 +0000

Excellent comment James

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: James Appledore

James Appledore — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:26:02 +0000

I qualified as a social worker in 1980. My personal experience of social work is an increasing disillusionment at how far our profession has regressed. We pretend that we practice ethically, that we work collaboratively with users of our services, yet we perform daily tasks that are essentially bureaucratic. We bang on about human rights while tolerating homelessness, poverty, violence and indignity by blaming everyone else but our rudderless and confused professional leadership and our own roles in dismantling the welfare state. Apparently people we serve are customers and their needs have to be addressed as consumers. We think technology provided by tax dodging super-national companies will make us “innovative” and we ignore the mass gathering of personal data that the same companies use to exploit us all, choosing to ignore use of child labour. We have recycling bins in our offices but ignore the idiocy of our employers providing car loans. We con ourselves that we have an anti-oppressive focus but spend energy disbelieving the life stories of refugee children by harassing them over their “true” age. The list of our professionally endorsed hypocrisies is long. It didn’t used to be like this. We were once a profession engaged in our communities, we picketed and we boycotted and we striked and we stood on the side of who ever was victimised and harassed by doing, not seeing podcasting as political action. The voice of social workers is ever muted and the influence of our leaders remains dulled. Actions matter and I for one don’t think that a profession supposed to be on the side of citizens should accept peerage’s and knighthoods and other myriad”honours” bestowed on behalf of the British Empire. Not really inclusive is it to be formally separated from the rest of us. So I have had enough, I am leaving social work to my betters and no doubt my “cynicism” will not be missed. Solidarity with those colleagues still fighting for the common good and not seeing every action through the prism of self advancement.

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极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Mark Bfield

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: James Appledore