Sarah Phillimore and Lucy Reed have created a podcast in which they use the recent “Protection” episode of Silent Witness as a discussion point, to engage with issues around child protection and family justice. This is a first podcast for the Transparency Project and depending on feedback we may make this a regular feature. Please let us know what you think by tweeting @seethrujustice. You can still view Silent Witness on iplayer here.
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by Lucy R | Jan 24, 2015 | Uncategorized | 6 comments
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really pernicious programme I think playing to the hysteria. Role of guardian and parental lawyer. My partner is a social work manager pointed out SW has big office and is therefore head of service she is in the CIN team. R and A team and fostering team with no support or supervision!!
Having seen neither programme, I may be off beam here but I’ve just been reading some tweets about Call the Midwife having been watched by families affected by child neglect. Getting impression that CTM was more accurate and sensitive than Silent Witness, but maybe that is easier when the portrayal is ‘history’.
I half watched an episode of CTM recently which involved child neglect. The characters of the mother and children were really rather well drawn – sadly familiar even if the true “latchkey kid” is perhaps a thing of the past (children are less invisible these days – mostly) and it was very harrowing episode to watch (but then CTM often is).
Having read this comment by Alan Fisher in Community Care, I tend to agree with him that the social office scene in ‘The Casual Vacancy’ was inauthentic. Shame, as the portrayal of social work in the novel was deemed fairly accurate. Kay was one of the more sympathetic characters. Think Rowling had done some research.
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/02/17/social-work-office-stark-brutal-bbcs-casual-vacancy/
I just found this, great listen, very interesting. Just to say that we cringed at the portrayal of a sw, more so when my press officer sent round an email to all saying how great it was, one expects ones media reps to understand the nature of ones work!
O no! But another illustration as to how widespread and seductive this ignorance is. Certain parts of the media have done their job well. Maybe your press officer needs to have a listen…