Who Would Be a Social Worker? Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don’t
Who would be a social worker? Normally, they go about their job in a professional manner with very little praise, charged with the extremely difficult decision of whether to risk leaving a child at home, where they may suffer physical harm, or to remove them, risking emotional harm. In a judgment on a recent case, Mr Justice McFarlane described their dilemma as “damned if they do, damned if they don’t” take action.
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