Social workers in the firing line

Joe Tanti (November 21) shot from the hip and stereotyped the social work profession in his short contribution regarding Baby P.

Fiasco it certainly was - although to refer to it as such is possibly an understatement - and the Haringey Social Services are to be held accountable.

But I find his conclusions totally unjustified.

I ask Mr Tanti to go online and read pages 2 and 3 of the Times 2 supplement of the London Times dated November 13 to get a better idea of the kind of work social workers are faced with in the inner cities of the United Kingdom.

Closer to home, I would refer him to the sterling work undertaken by social workers in the Child Protection Services at Aġenzija Appoġġ and the pressures they have to deal with on a daily basis.