From days of old, it has generally been acknowledged that "History is written by the winner."

In the day of the Internet, what seems to pass for some of you as history is "written" by anyone who has access to a keyboard and can post a few spurious links.

From a small amount of browsing and googling, I have found a wealth of news reoprts, websites and pages attesting to a serious problem of an abuse of power by officials in the Child Care industry.
This is made worse by the almost total lack of secrecy of proceedings within the Family courts.
Couple this to the well publicised and tragic cases where the Social Services have, often by neglect of duty, failed to protect a child.
I think there is enough evidence for a serious enquiry to be made into the workings of the Social Services of this country.

Do you believe everything you read on the Internet? Who is likely to post their account, someone who is content with the outcome of a case, or someone who is unhappy? Justly convicted or not, the complainers are going to post the lion's share of reports. All things aren't equal any more, and to suggest that these social services are just waiting to pounce on innocent families and that social workers can't tell the difference between a mean-spirited nasty report by a disgrunted person lodged against a parent from a case of serious child endangerment is ludicrous.

Yes there are child welfare workers who are overworked and undertrained. And they're not perfect. If you have such strong opinions about the system, perhaps you should become engaged and become a foster parent. It's the least you can do.

SRS