Quote ="rumpelstiltskin"Perhaps its because it usually involves a report in the latest in a long line of cock ups, involving a particularly vile case of a young child being tortured and then killed, all of which occurs under the watchful eye of their resident social worker?'"
You do realise that "bad" news is, for want of a better term, sexy, for newspapers and the media to report?
You also realise that social workers (in fact all humans except newspaper editors and the eternally outraged, it seems) are not all seeing or omnipresent? Shit happens. Its never good when it does and most social workers will be absolutely devastated when it does.
I would love to see a table of successful outcomes against unsuccessful ones mind you (don't worry I'm not going to ask you for one). But that isn't sexy enough for the media.
