Richard Jones

Sir Roger Singleton’s comparatively new Independent Safeguarding Authority has learned the hard way, during the past few weeks, that apart from walking barefoot through broken glass, there is nothing more potentially painful for a public body to do than burst into the heated, and very often overheated, world of protecting people from abuse. His has been the dilemma faced by social workers since the dawn of the  profession: deciding what is an acceptable risk to take within a liberal society. Read more