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Social worker's jargon is like a foreign language, says angry judge as he calls
for reports to be written in language that everyone involved can understand
By Steve Doughty, Social Affairs Correspondent for the Daily Mail 00:05 03 Aug 2
015, updated 07:46 03 Aug 2015
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Tina Pugh s paper was about woman seeking to care for young children
Had phrases like imbued with ambivalence' and having commonalities'
Judge Jeremy Lea said her report would be baffling to woman it was about
Reports by experts aren't solely for benefit of other professionals,' he said
Judge Jeremy Lea
ght as well have
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Judge Jeremy Lea
ght as well have

said the social worker's report was so riddled with jargon it

been written in a foreign language

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said the social worker's report was so riddled with jargon it

been written in a foreign language

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A social worker s report for a family court hearing was so riddled with jargon it
ight as well have been written in a foreign language , a judge said.

Tina Pugh s paper, about a woman seeking to care for two young children, included
phrases such as imbued with ambivalence and having many commonalities emanating fro
m their histories .
Judge Jeremy Lea said that while he thought he knew what the social worker was t
rying to say, her report would probably be baffling to the woman it was actually
about.
He added: Reports by experts are not written solely for the benefit of other prof
essionals, the advocates and the judge.

The parents and other litigants need to understand what is being said and why. The
woman, identified only by the initials SH, had asked to bring up two young chil
dren who were born to a teenage mother in a violent relationship.
One of the children may be her grandchild, the family court in Nottingham heard.
Miss Pugh was called in to produce an independent report to add to the work of D
erbyshire social services. She recommended that the children should not go to th
e woman.
Jargon-filled passages picked out by the judge included: I do not intend to addre
ss the couple s relationship suffice to say it is imbued with ambivalence: both ha
ving many commonalities emanating from their histories that create what could be
a long lasting connection of alternative relationships that are a reflection of
this.
Such is this connection that they may collude to undermine the placement.
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Another said: In narrowing down the issues SH clearly believes that paternity iss
ues had a significant interplay on [the woman s son s] ability to say no to the moth
er.
A third confusing passage read: Due to SH s apparent difficulties identifying the c
oncerns, I asked her to convey a narrative about her observations. Faced with thi
s particular section, the judge said: What would be wrong in saying, I asked her t
o tell me?
Judge Lea added: I suspect, as far as SH was concerned, these passages might just
as well have been written in a foreign language.
Did [Miss Pugh] discuss issues with SH in a language she would understand? SH is,
and I am sure she will forgive me for saying so, a simple soul.
She does not have a large vocabulary but
eadily comprehend a lot of what Tina Pugh
The report was for a family court hearing
g to care for two children
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The report was for a family court hearing
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has written about her.
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in Nottingham where a woman was seekin

The judge said Miss Pugh had based her report on two meetings with the woman and
on case papers.
She did not meet the two young children, aged four and two, nor did she meet oth
er family members.
Miss Pugh also criticised SH for failing to familiarise herself with the paperwor
k when in fact she had never been given the case papers.
The judge decided that SH should be given the chance to raise the children
who w
ould otherwise be put up for adoption
saying her parenting abilities should not b
e judged by some stellar standard .

He added: Society must be willing to tolerate very diverse standards of parenting

which include the barely adequate and the inconsistent.
Public authorities cannot improve on nature.

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