‘Clearly she has morphed somewhere in her career from social worker to political commissar.’
These are the words of Minette Marrin, writing of the social worker at the centre of the fostering scandal at Rotherham Council in the Sunday Times. Marrin’s article unpicks Rotherham Council’s position, turns it over and concludes that:
‘[The] thoughtless, obstinate political correctness of the Joyce Thacker (Rotherham’s senior social worker) variety is rampant throughout social services. Many of them are highly politicised in plain party-political terms as well. It’s a national disgrace and a national disaster. In adoption, for instance, it is such misguided attitudes that make it so very difficult for a child in need to find adoptive parents.’
Marrin then goes into the details of Britain’s adoption crisis; yet she might have easily developed the political point. It is shocking (and deeply worrying) that an allegedly impartial government agency can make such politically motivated decisions.
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