The possible reinstatement of social worker Eleni Cordingley at Swansea Council has a number of obvious implications. Firstly, her recent successful appeal against professional misconduct will confirm widely held views that failings in the Aaron Gilbert case were as much a result of systemic shortcomings within the local authority and other agencies as opposed to actions or inactions by any one individual case-worker. Details of these shortcomings would have no doubt come to light if an employment tribunal had gone ahead as planned.
Secondly it will put the focus back on those who have tried to shrug off a possible link between the underlying circumstances of the tragedy and the serious concerns which prompted the Welsh Assembly Government to intervene over the state of children’s services in Swansea Council.
Hopefully it will also result in political apologists for the administration finally abandoning their cynical stance of claiming that the un-referred warnings involved meant that the child was never formally a social services client as if it was an absolution for the system rather than an indictment.
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There's a nice pattern emerging here.
Wendy Fitzgerald runs's social services into the ground, get's a wrist slap and is sacked.
Few months later, Holley gifts her a job back as Presiding Officer of the council.
Now its the turn of Elenie Cordingley.
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