The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #101654   Message #2146248
Posted By: Emma B
11-Sep-07 - 07:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Child neglect and the law
Subject: RE: BS: Child neglect and the law
Sapper you can't simply state that parents all too often have no knowledge of what is happening in Case Conferences and then post a link to where they secretly recorded selective extracts from one where they most obviously did, - oh sorry, yes you can!

The professionals involved in these cases whether teachers, police, health workers or Social Workers are, unlike the parents, bound by rules of confidentiality and are therefore unable to answer back to these highly publicized and emotional "appeals" to a public which does not have the details of the circumstances.

As I've said before the effects of the press investigating personal lives (such as the first suspect in the McCann case who was compared with the convicted double child killer Ian Huntley) can be horrendous to all concerned and, it is with just cause, that the most recent enquiry into the reporting of Family Proceedings came down heavily on defending the anonymity of the children involved

In the case you give a link to the article linked to goes on to say -

"The council does not take lightly any recommendation to the court for a child or a baby to be brought into care. The decision whether or not to institute care proceedings is made by social workers who have to consider the best interests of the child."

There is no suggestion in this report which states that the Social worker would request an "Interim Care Order" (although the outcome would rely upon the judge's decision) that "compuslory adoption" is a consideration.