ABSTRACT
Social work has emerged as one of the 20th century's attempts to cope with such problems as best it can. Moore has provided a list of 'skills' necessary for high-quality child protection social work but most of them are more to do with the personality and style or the qualities of the social worker than with learnt skills. Social work operates within, and represents the interests of, the state by which it is sponsored; it asserts the primacy of the individual and to that extent is a product of the evolution of social democracy in the 20th century. The piece of history concerns Romania. Through the power of television, the world reeled with shock at the sight of piteous children in the poverty-stricken, ill-equipped and badly-run orphanages that were exposed for all to see after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.
