The latest child welfare items that should be right on your radar:
- First “Forget Me Not Garden” dedicated to parents and wider family members affected by adoption, opens
- New children and education complaint decisions from the Local Government Ombudsman
- Social work manager ‘ignored crucial information’ in case where girl suffered life-threatening neglect
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With regard to the last article I find it very odd that these stories still persist. This case involves a social work manager, someone who would be considered to be experienced. Whilst it was not his job he undertook responsibility but didn’t actually do his job. Although he may be taken to task he was not acting alone, as other departments were complicit in failing the child too. Yet again another child almost dies or is killed due to those failings of social services.
Compare this case against other children who have no such history. Those children that have not been starved & are not underweight. Those children that have no marks of abuse on them. Despite the fact these parents have not committed any criminal acts that would result in them being sent to prison they are severely punished in the most heinous way, by taking their children away from them via the Care conveyor belt.
Something is seriously wrong with the whole system that allows both types of injustices to happen. Maybe social workers need to focus on the perpetrators of real abuse rather than their perceived abuse. Maybe they need more education to tell the difference. Maybe they need to support families more.
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