THIS IS A DARK DAY

This is a dark day. Two social-care colleagues, Ruth Wyner and John Brock
of Wintercomfort in Cambridge, have begun long prison sentences. Why? They
were presumed unwilling to cooperate fully with the police to combat a
drugs problem at their homeless day centre. Thousands of social workers
like myself working with homeless people have been effectively criminalised
and the confidentiality rules of professional bodies like the British
Association of Social Workers destroyed. We are all made coppers' narks
over night.

Prof David Brandon, Cambridge