From Dom McNally
Have you seen this? Gove is actively changing training so challenges to inequality are phased out!
Charles Sharpe writes
Have you seen this? Gove is actively changing training so challenges to inequality are phased out!
A politician stating that their policies ,which have created a massive under-class of impoverished citizens and huge social injustice, are nothing to do with the reason people have problems is hardly going to be a surprise. Who in power would want that belief being promoted (and by their own workers)? It's a huge threat to them, their jobs, their way of life and that of their very well protected chums. They obviously want to try and squash social unrest, any small chance of a revolution/system change and try and get the middle classes on board. How terrible to 'Explain away substance abuse and domestic violence' when it is much more convenient to just ignore the causes and make the victims responsible for the ills of society.
It reminds me of early research in the 50s & 60s that blamed aggressive children for the sexual abuse that they were victims of, ignoring that the abuse had made them aggressive.
In glaring irony he talks of social workers not focusing on 'cognitive damage that accrues through neglect' whilst blatantly neglecting the underclasses and ignoring the damage this is causing.
Can I swear?
Dom
Jeremy Millar comments
Well observed Dom. The man requires therapy as a result of his early abandonment but I struggle to summon up sympathy for him. The bullies in his childhood have steered him into the comfort of bigger bullies from grander schools. He will go further than most to be ‘accepted’ and sadly doesn’t realise that Dave and his chums will still view him with disdain and amusement. An uppity oik.
Permission to swear.
Charles Sharpe writes
I am saddened beyond outrage by this but not surprised. I would have called you mad if you had said in May 2010 that this as well as all the other of what has turned out to be this government's policies were to be carried out in the following three years. They represent an uninterrupted assault on the less well off and poor in our community. We have a coalition government which had no mandate to do anything really and yet its legislation, policy and action have been a singular exercise in ensuring that the wealthy retain their affluence and power. We know of course that this is all we can expect of the Conservative Party - it is being true to itself - after all its raison d'être is to protect its own - the middling - to - well off. What is depressing is that this government has been allowed to operate by a Liberal-Democrat Party which persuaded many disillusioned Labour voters to support it in the last general election because it claimed to be more radical a party than Blair's New Labour one that cared to help the poor and less well off. I suppose I should have known better. People like me should have lived and "learnt" (?!) long enough not to forget to weigh up the relative strengths of principle and hypocrisy in politics.
As for Mr Gove. He hasn't listened to teachers. He has ridden roughshod over them. Now the same can be said for social workers and social work education and this is happening for all the Tory ideological propaganda reasons you give Dominic.
I sometimes feel the political and media world have gone off into their own narrow fantasy of life and community and left the rest of us to deal with the day to day problems that arise in the wider community. The trouble is their world has so much influence. It is time to have a hard think about becoming a community in a completely different and caring way. Let's look for a peaceful, caring anarchy. Anarchy is not a synonym for disruption and bomb throwing. It is a word meaning without government and includes the notion of truly shared responsibility.
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I'm not sure how Gove will get social work tutors not teach about social inequality as it would be like telling a mathematician to forget about 1+1 = 2.
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I'm not sure how Gove will get social work tutors not teach about social inequality as it would be like telling a mathematician to forget about 1+1 = 2.
