Better training for incompetent senior managers

[miniman]

bbc said:

Too many children are abused because social work departments fail to protect them, a report is expected to say.

Lord Laming's review was commissioned by the government after the brutal death of 17-month-old Baby P in Haringey, north London.

It will recommend how best to improve child protection across England.

Ahead of its publication, Children's Secretary Ed Balls will announce a new training regime for senior children's services managers.

Wonderful. In any other business, incompetent senior managers would be dismissed, particularly following some of the child protection debacles we have had recently. But in the good old public sector, we will give them some training to try to help them do their job properly.

Let's put this another way - as a senior manager, I am ultimately responsible for the security of client data within my business. If one of my staff fked up spectacularly and allowed the security to be breached and I had clearly been lax in my management of that person, I would be out of the door on gross misconduct and rightly so. Not sent on a "maybe we can help you do your job adequately" training course.

[randlemarcus]

Oh, its better than that. This isnt a job specific training course, this is a move designed to get all practioners to MSc level as soon as possible. Because everyone who went to University will tell you how valuable and full of real world experiences it was.

[Orb the Impaler]

miniman said:

Wonderful. In any other business, incompetent senior managers would be dismissed

<splutter> Clearly you haven't worked in IT; all the managers that aren't disabled enough or got the family connections to work in the public sector go there instead and fk around messing stuff up

[singlecoil]

It's all about being seen to do something, anything.

The basic problem is that isn't senior managers that are killing babies, it's the people they live with. If they want the baby killing to stop, all they have to do is to take away all the babies. And that's the only way it is going to stop.

Problem is, they don't know which babies are going to be killed next, they can only guess (and I don't think guesses are admissable in the judicial process necessary to remove a child).

[splosher]

singlecoil said:

The basic problem is that isn't senior managers that are killing babies, it's the people they live with.

Why do people who live with senior managers kill babies?