Monday 5 October 2009

Jet-set child protection

Almost immediately after completing my last post I landed on an article on an Australian website which discusses the issue of the Victoria State Government relying on British social workers in running its child protection services.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/reform-call-for-child-protection-20091004-ghwq.html

It’s a small world: our social workers go to Australia, US social workers come here. Where next? Maybe we should be worrying about the contribution to global warming as a result of all the air travel involved?