I spoke to soon. It looks
like the Lazarus-like clause has come back from the dead.
Community Care reports that the government is proposing to table
amendments this week to re-instate the proposals in the Children and Social
Work Bill, albeit in what ministers are reported to describe as an “altered and
improved” form.
Mention of Lazarus
notwithstanding, I don’t really know much about Biblical miracles. But I do
know we need a modern day miracle to save us from an unholy preoccupation with
this issue of so-called ‘innovation’.
We should all be getting on
with making children’s services safer – not throwing them open to inexperienced
newcomers and pedlars of unproven new ideas; not to mention the possibility of
walking into the clutches of get-rich-quick out-sourcing merchants.
