Comments on: Protecting All Children – jus’ like that http://pinktape.co.uk/courts/protecting-all-children-jus-like-that/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protecting-all-children-jus-like-that a blog from the family bar Tue, 22 May 2012 17:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: An admirer of incisive comment http://pinktape.co.uk/courts/protecting-all-children-jus-like-that/#comment-592 An admirer of incisive comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:14:10 +0000 http://pinktape.co.uk/?p=742#comment-592 An excellent critique Lucy. It is being circulated! Keep up the good work. An excellent critique Lucy.
It is being circulated!
Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Natasha Phillips http://pinktape.co.uk/courts/protecting-all-children-jus-like-that/#comment-591 Natasha Phillips Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:25:45 +0000 http://pinktape.co.uk/?p=742#comment-591 I agree with you wholeheartedly and I think Kirby grossly over-simplifies the issues. Ironically, I think this is at the heart of why the system itself is failing. We want to make it all better with a box. To my mind at least, the problem lies in the levels of interest and the lack of earnest vocational minds. A great social worker is not great because she can tick lots of boxes and came top of her class at college. She is great because she has a 'feel' for what she does, combined with a refined Principle Compass. That combination of talent and treading lightly is hard to find but a heavily bureaucratic system just deters that talent. Technology and empiricial study make for useful guides, but they should never be our gods. I agree with you wholeheartedly and I think Kirby grossly over-simplifies the issues. Ironically, I think this is at the heart of why the system itself is failing.

We want to make it all better with a box.

To my mind at least, the problem lies in the levels of interest and the lack of earnest vocational minds. A great social worker is not great because she can tick lots of boxes and came top of her class at college. She is great because she has a ‘feel’ for what she does, combined with a refined Principle Compass. That combination of talent and treading lightly is hard to find but a heavily bureaucratic system just deters that talent.

Technology and empiricial study make for useful guides, but they should never be our gods.

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