I have heard this to and had only read in the paper a week or 2 ago about a little girl who was left to starve to death in the house abouve the pub her parents run while they had a great time and got drunk,the dog got better treatment,regular visits to the vet for health checks. The midwife went to social and all they did was send a letter saying it had been noted that there was a concern but dropped the case after 8wks as there was no other complaints. She died bless her poor mite,found in amoungst the dog bits.
I only to well know how social services have let the system down massivly. Thoes that know i was chans mum for 9mths of her life and now altho shes back with my mum and brother the relevant chaeck have yet to be done dispite the court granting my mum full custody(on the say so from social that she had been CRB checked). When it wa noted and went back to court a full investigation was ordered by the judge and an independant person to carry this out(it is under way) but its to late. We already know of a local case where a baby was taken away from the mum at birth(said to be unable to care for her) and given to the nan,she was never CRB checked and she killed the baby at only a wk or 2 old. The mum in the mean time was declaired fit to care for the baby(a problem in comunication from the hospital/antinatal care was at fault)never the less this mum lost her baby for no reason.
This is a big problem all round,mainly because the staff at social services are not properly qualyified and dont work under assistance.Most of them are training on the job(playing with kids lives realy).
Lastly on this i hate to think that social wont remove kids in a harmfull enviroment as they think it will improve yet they are quite hapy to take a chil out of a loving,happy family enviroment and put them into care just because they are on the podgy side(7 kids have been taken into care for being obese and its said the parents are goin to kill them if they keep eating like this)what about the ones who suffer abuse by the hand that dont feed them and the ones that should.
So sorry if i upset anyone with this but to much goes unheard.
