Friday, 15 June 2012

'Moral values' to be enshrined in an overhaul of child protection



Social workers will have to check that parents are teaching their children 'moral values' and 'conscience' under a major overhaul of child protection rules. The move comes as ministers prepare to tear up more than 700 pages of 'pointless' child protection guidance in an effort to free social workers from paper work and 'tick-box' rules. A raft of targets and prescriptive national guidelines are set to be abolished in a move that ministers hope will free social workers, doctors, police and other professionals to do their jobs more easily. (Read more , Daily Telegraph, 12/6)

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