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Social workers accused of "penguin mentality"

The link is to the story in the Birmingham Mail today. This is where a Birmingham politician (not me) has said:
“It’s what I call the penguin complex among social workers. They live in a different continent to the rest of us, like Antarctica, and at the slightest criticism they all go into a huge huddle, turning their backs and shield each other.”
(Len Clark)

In part the rest of society is to blame by tending to look for a scapegoat when things go wrong. However, things will not improve if people do not respond to suggestions for change other than by resisting it.

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EtonMess said…
Wonderful - yet another Lib Dem defending a Tory politician. A merger of what is left of the Libs with the blues must surely be the only logical conclusion...
4:38 pm
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