The problem here seems to be the lack of individual attention to the circumstances leading up to the children having to be taken into care. This affects not only those two girls but any child taken into care.

From what has been given out it sounds as if, whatever the reason for care, the same stock treatment is meted out to the child. If that is the case there is surely something seriously wrong with the system as a whole.

These kids were already in a traumatic situation, alone in a foreign country, with their mother having to be hospitalised and with no-one else to help them. any competent person dealing with children would surely have known to treat them with more sympathy than appears to be the case.

They should, at least, have been allowed to visit their mother in hospital. that they were not makes me think that little attention is given to the needs of the child in the system.