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Originally posted by Freyja
A good place to start would be a shake-up of the social services in this country. There are too many kids living in violent, abusive homes, being dragged up and missing school, etc. Yet social workers visit these families every day and nothing improves.

I see it in my own street. I see neglect and abuse, and they take the child away for a few weeks, then they return the child to the parent and the cycle starts all over again. I am powerless to do anything about it, but the social work department shouldn't be.

yeh its difficult social workers tread a fine line with these things. If they get it wrong then they could be taking a kid away from a family unnessecarily even if it isnt ideal in some peoples eyes, they might be better off staying with their parents than putting them through the pain of being separated from their families and going into care. There was a thread not long back on social services out of control taking kids away from parents to fill adoption targets lol! Then sometimes they get it wrong and you have a baby P situation. How they didnt spot what was going on there is shameful, but thats doctors and others aswell.