Social Workers: Public Inquiry

Manitoba Government Employees Union Dept: WINNIPEG - Social workers who may have failed to protect a young girl from falling through the cracks of Manitoba's child-welfare system must be protected from being pilloried in the media, a union lawyer said Wednesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "The media appears, Mr. Commissioner, to be no longer interested in the accuracy or the truth of the facts that it prints or publishes or broadcasts," Smorang told inquiry commissioner and retired judge Ted Hughes and phoenix Sinclair FREE PRESS ARCHIVES Related Items Polls Should the identities of social workers be protected at the inquiry into the death of Phoenix Sinclair? Garth Smorang, lawyer for the Manitoba Government Employees Union, is asking for a publication ban on the identities of social workers at an upcoming public inquiry into the horrific beating death of five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair in 2005. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.