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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock
In my view I don't believe that the Social Services in this country would act unless they were concerned about something that they were seeing.
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True (usually) but as with every public service in this country they are under-resourced and over-stretched, which means that a lot of things are unfortunately not dealt with in a timely manner, and so when an incident occurs they act defensively and take the most extreme action possible so that Social Services won't come under as much scrutiny. The truth is that it's likely that services should have been involved with the family in a more integrated/cooperative way for years, but they "fell through the cracks", and then a kid got hurt and when it was referred by a healthcare professional they'll have said "Oh ***, we should have known about/been watching this family for years! We better act IMMEDIATELY before someone flags this up".
This mechanism is happening all the time. Nowhere NEAR enough social workers.
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