A social worker’s fire misses target.
I found myself in the cross-hairs of a social worker the other day. This social worker had experienced the Olympics in Vancouver and was outraged about the extravagance she perceived could have been better directed at community and social programs. Adding to her ire, her program had been replaced by another and she was clearly … Read more
Failure of imagination?
Accessing the web is about to get harder for people who can’t afford the technology. “Organizations that benefit from Industry Canada’s 16-year-old Community Access Program began receiving letters last week informing them that sites located within 25 kilometres of a public library would no longer be eligible for cash” (Ditchburn, 2010). This seems a particularly … Read more
Reflecting on more than a decade of cuts to family services
I started my new career as a professional social worker in 1998. It was an auspicious time for child protection workers. Those of us hired in these years all knew we had benefited from the Gove Report which placed new demands on government. One demand was to make sure qualified social workers were doing the … Read more
