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• Paddy Barry obituary

  27-05-2022 20:32
  
  My dad, Paddy Barry, who has died aged 84, had a long career as a social worker, working mainly with children. From 1974 to 1997 he was the principal officer for children’s residential and day care for Wandsworth council, in south-west London, which in those days ran more than 25 children’s homes across the borough.Paddy always viewed the care system from the perspective of the child, working hard to ensure that children’s life chances would be improved by being in care. He rem
  
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• Support for social workers is the missing piece of the Star and Arthur review | Harry Ferguson

  27-05-2022 13:51
  
  From my 12 years of research, I know that the pressure staff come under – especially from hostile parents – can cloud their judgmentHarry Ferguson is professor of social work at the University of BirminghamWhen six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and 16-month-old Star Hobson’s deaths from appalling physical abuse became widely known in December there was an outpouring of public anger, grief and questions about how this could possibly have been allowed to happen. The review into
  
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