Let's hear it for Social Services

This afternoon, I had the huge honour and profound pleasure of attending a party for adopted children and their parents held by Calderdale Council.

It was an incredibly fun event, well put together and thoroughly satisfying.

It is important to remember that at a time when vilifying social workers has become a national pastime, spurred on by the red tops, that the overwhelming majority do a mighty fine job most of the time. It is only when things go wrong, as they sadly do at times, that they impinge on our consciousness, and then all hell breaks loose and we let slip the dogs of war.

People are mostly ignorant of their day-to-day travails, and seeing the dozens of smiling faces, parents and children, that today of all days (National Adoption Week) I wanted to thank them and their profession for ALL the good work they do.

THANK YOU!

p.s. as an example of how much fun I had, during a game of pass-the-parcel, one lad turned to me and said, "You're not my dad, but you're still embarassing".