So called professionals and they way they talk about clients

It would be highly unprofessional to reprimand a member of staff in front of his/her colleagues.
The situations has probably been dealt with.

Where does the OP say constant complaints being ignored ?

Riverwalk I have challenged things before at work and feel that im the only one who speaks up or discusses it with my manager and in the end this may go against me

What mapleleaf said. The manager may well have challenged privately spoken to the person who miss-spoke about not using such expressions in meetings.

I’m a little puzzled. Why is it wrong to anonymously ask a question on here? What’s unprofessional about voicing an issue when nobody knows who or where the OP is? Surely that’s the point of anonymous forums? Anyone can ask any question without worrying about professionalism or discretion as there are no real details involved?
Surely, if the OP has a concern, this is the place to sound out the opinions of others who are not directly involved but who may have relevant experience or advice?

Because this is an open forum. Anyone could log on and read it: the person concerned, their manager, even the family in question. It would be possible to identify the people involved.
This is a matter to be dealt with privately between the op and her line manager. As a rule of thumb, if you are happy for people to overhear you on the top deck of a bus, post it online. If not, don’t post.

As long as the remark was made in a private meeting, I can understand the sentiment.

If the remark was made in a general office situation then it should be challenged.

What I note from this scenario, is that it was the woman who was criticised for getting pregnant, not the bloke(s) who kept making her pregnant!!

If it offended you why didnt you say something?

In a closed meeting with colleagues I do not see a problem.

Others have made a good point. ForestsLakesandMountains you assume you have the moral high ground BUT are addressing this point in public.

There is always an upwards chain of responsibility. If you have spoken to your manager before and she has not responded you have a choice.

Either, take the point that she had taken no action as a hint. YOU are being inappropriate.

OR take your complaint higher if you are really confident that you are right.

I still think however, that within a team, people need space to let off steam.

Not to mention that social work is desperately underfunded and understaffed. This may be additional pressure which is causing staff to have extra stress, resulting in difficulty coping with workload and therefore need to offload. And also that if you pursue this complaint, that will mean even greater understaffing.

This is an open forum, threads can be reproduced on Twitter, on Facebook and in the MSM.
Unfortunately, there are some people who may make it their business to track posters, sad but true.

This remark could be regarded as 'black humour' and a way to let off steam in a closed meeting with other professionals who should be able to recognise it as a way of dealing with a stressful occupation. It should not have been repeated on an open forum.

Yes, I think you are making a big deal of it OP and to repeat it outside that meeting is, in my view, unprofessional.

Im a Mental Health Nurse who worked in A rehabilitation project where my role was as much as a Social worker as it was as a Nurse. Our inhouse Manager regularly held staff one to one supervision sessions for senior staff, where issues with the keyworkers they were incharge of could be discussed and any action taken regards further training or disaplinaries should the need arise. Like previous posters have said, there are times where anger over a situation over rules common sense and things get said and tempers lost that are later deeply regretted.
It didnt help much when it was discovered that one manager had recruited staff more on tge fact that they were his personal friends and not on their proffesional experiance, qualifications, and personal values. This could be rather embarrasing and quite obvious sometimes during multi disaplinary meetings where junior key workers demonstrated their skills at handling a situation with proffesionalism whilst a member of the senior team blabbed out a load of rubbish that proved that they did not know what they were talking about in the slightest. One prime example was a senior saying that a recovering Schitzophrenic client was lonely because he missed speaking to the voices in his head??? The true fact was that the poor man was suicidal on admission as he was terrified of what these ' voices' where telling him to do, and it was thanks to his medication regime that he was feeling much better. This was only one example of an inceident that left me feeling very angry indeed. The manager at my next supervision session refused to do anything about this, this woman was a close friend of his. However, The clients community Social worker and CPN where far from happy, and logged a formal complaint with head office. A full investigation began, the Manager and several of his friends where dismissed for gross misconduct, the staff members that did remain where interviewed again in the presence of the company solicitor and given new contracts which were far more detailed regard proffesional conduct than the orginal ones ever where.
All this happened many years ago, the place is no longer in existance, and l have been long retired from the job l loved. The manager that was dismissed paid the ultimate price, he was having an affair with one of his posse he had employed, his wife found out, and divorced him, taking their children with her. He was also investigated by the Police, found guilty of theft and other offences whilst on duty as the manager of this establishment.

Not to a colleague of talking about a client but to a client was the worst thing I heard.
A 30 something couple were in the process of adoption , both professionals and comfortably off.
They agreed to take siblings from a difficult background.

At one home visit a social worker told them they were only being considered because they were doing this as they were both so overweight , otherwise they would be turned down.

I know they didn't complain at the time, they wanted the adoption to go through, I always hoped they did afterwards.