Social workers and their jargon

[David Ayers]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-ouch-23423541

My son Steven is 23. He has autism and other learning difficulties. And the language of the social care system seems to make his life sound even less "normal" than it is.

The adult social care world is about many things, but one thing that I feel it's not about is care. The language seems to mislead you right from the start. Processes seem to come before people in a system of impenetrable management where money is the biggest consideration.

[robertoart]

Maybe the Royals could downsize and divert the money to Community Services..

[Big Beat Steve]

Sad to see how all this seems to be the same worldwide. You could just as easily do a fact-based story like this in German and relating to the situation here and come up with just as ponderous, cluttering, P.C.-ish but nebulous phrases.

What's even more galling is how this entire "social industry" is becoming more and more of a self-centered job creation industry that's more and more concerned with self-management and clerical navel-gazing that does nothing to help the patients but just creates more bureaucracy for everybody, eating up an ever-bigger share of taxpayer's money that goes into keeping up the clerical side of the social industry instead of directing funds into the actual care for those who need the care.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

And the result of all this non-work is:

Kids are abused - by their parents - and nothing is done

By care workers - and nothing is done

By showbiz celebrities - and nothing is done (well, maybe after the criminals are dead)

MG