Violet, please let your colleague know they are loved and respected farther than their immediate work family. Naturally I don’t know the ‘ins and outs’ but sounds like they went above and beyond. Nobody wants this when they come into this profession- I’m glad they are getting the support they need.

And got short shrift from other family. There’s been no traction to social worker blame in the media either. Social workers need to see what’s there not retreat into everybody blames us self gloom at every tragedy. Standing up for ourselves and colleagues doesn’t mean we shoulder imagined slights.

Agreed. This is a difficult scenario to prevent. As a Social Worker it has made me think more about risk assessments that could recommend children who can not contact others must be checked in with every three days for example even if this is by phone.

The mother has already blamed the social worker and Social Services.

The family are not blaming nor circling the social worker so I suggest a degree of humility in not trying to anticipate an unlikely scenario. Our colleague is loved and supported, we don’t need national headlines for that to continue.

The media and some politicians have been circling and need to be seen off.