JUST A THOUGHT ON - 'SURVIVING SOCIAL WORK. THE END...

Having the added safeguarding measure of, yes, a 'spy' in the family's home, should be considered a necessary price for some families to pay. Especially when the alternatives to having this periodic visual monitoring of the child could mean removing them from their families, or living with the increased risk of less monitoring of the child. Some people will argue with the ethics of such measures. Some will see it as a step too far, but the fact is that we are not going to be able to stop or turn back the clock in marching towards becoming a more surveillance society. We can, realistically, only expect to slow down the increasing encroachment of the surveillance society. So, I would, am arguing, it makes good sense for social work to make more and appropriate use of all the relevant technology available to it. Which the profession could use to reduce the risk which dangerous parenting, and inadequate social work practice and community support, pose to vulne...