Well surely it is up to us as a 'civilised' nation to speak out against it somehow being okay to leave our elderly and disabled dying in hospitals and care homes,abused, malnourished, dehydrated and covered in sores and faeces.

The press are all over one child dying in circumstances that no-one could have known or predicted and no, I'm not making excuses except that we ( social workers) are not omniscient and we are over worked and made to spend 70% of our time in front of a computer ticking boxes rather than with a person.

Where is Murdoch and Co when some poor old sod dies alone, neglected in the very institutions that we pay to care for them? Where are the news headlines then? Why aren't people up in arms and harrying their politicians for change? Let's face it, people prefer to read about some idiot celebrity and their idiot affaires, don't they?

We are all quiet about killing our own teenagers and young people in Libya and Iraq and we are all quiet about the scandal that is health and social care in this country and why? Because no one gives a shit really, which is astonishing unless we somehow think it won't be us in 10 or 20 years. We are the solution, but we have to give a damn.

I'll put my soapbox away now.