Re: Bloody social services - again.

Christina Websell <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Evil_Nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
[snip]

It's a very different story when a kid is on the 'at risk' register
and the parents make up flimsy pretexts why the case worker can't see
it during the weekly visits, but then such kids tend to be too old to
place into adoption easily and so social services won't get a cushy
bonus from New Labour.

They will not have tried to remove it with no good reason.

<hollow laugh>

So you're judging the case despite the fact that you have no data? You
are assuming that the SS were acting properly - /not/ a valid
assumption, and a sign of bias on your part in favour of the SS. And
the only people with that bias that I've ever met and known about to
some extent are - oh, let's see: social workers and the like!

Prejudiced against social services? Moi? Surely not!

So I guess you are then, eh? What do you know apart from what you see in
the press?

And what do you think you know at all about this? I've met the kids who
have been wrecked by statutory `care'. That's what I know. I've heard
the anguish of parents whose lives have been ruined by SS intervention.
That's what I know.

But the SS are - most of 'em - somewhere on the line between useless and
abusive, as are all the statutory bodies charged with making sure kids
are looked after.

Don't take my word for it:

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/feb/01/climbie.childprotection>

`The social care professions have failed to heed the lessons of Lord
Laming's landmark inquiry into the murder of child abuse victim Victoria
Climbié, government-funded research revealed yesterday.'

Rowland.
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