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Article: Political correctness is `hurting the needy'
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 22, 1999
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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS has prevented thousands of needy people from
receiving proper help from social services, according to the chief
executive of one of the country's leading social welfare agencies.
Helen Dent, chief executive of the Family Welfare Association,
believes social workers have become so involved in ideological hair
splitting and "convening meetings for squabbles over whether to write
`black' or `Black'" that they have failed to address the real needs
of their clients.
"The length of the political correctness wars has been excessive,"
she says in a report published today by the Health and Welfare Unit
of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Ms Dent said that although
social ...