What happens when someone in power lies

What exactly does happen when someone in power lies?

Well we all know of what happened to Chris Huhne but I'm not talking about political power for a change as we know that some politicians are born liars but professional or academic power?

Lets take the example of a social worker who makes things up or lies to cover up mistakes? What would happen to them surely there are safeguards in place? Well in professional practice that would normally be true. The General Social Care Council has powers to remove a social worker's registration in a similar way that the General Medical Council can strike off a medical practitioner or the General Teaching Council has the power to disbar a teacher.

However what happens if there is a power imbalance, what if we are talking about an academic organisation who employ qualified social workers to teach and supervise students. What if the qualified person in power lies?

This commentator has a great dilemma here for it has come to this commentator's attention that this is happening with one particular organisation, or should I say one part of one academic organisation within the UK that has the ability to award Social Work degrees. Complaints have been made to that organisation with apparently no response. In fact the individuals concerned seem almost untouchable yet these are people who hold the future of social work practice in their hands. Students are suffering and this has to be wrong.

Let's make no bones about it Social Workers are up there with Tax Inspectors, The Police, Politicians and DSS officials as been one of the most hated groups of people in our society. However the reality is that there is some truly excellent work being done under difficult and at times almost impossible situations. Yet it is these little bad apples who go unnoticed for years that lead to the problems.They destroy lives and they demonise people yet always seem to come up smelling of roses. And the dilemma is how to remove the good from the bad without affecting future growth ?

But remember roses grow from manured earth! But you can always take out the manure and roses will still grow!