You might know recently if you read my blogs, that I had encountered previous problems with Social Services over the rescue of a 15 year old girl that our organisation helped get into a place of safety. The Social Services Department in question was not best pleased after I critised them for not placing this child on the “at risk register”, and continued to allow this child too be raped, assualted and mentally abused by certain individuals.
After several attempts and writing letters to the Councils Borough Councillor, Social Services soon saw the light and placed her in care. (I was told at that time, children are better kept with their parents, i’m sure that this is not true, I truly believe its down to money!! we are placing money before the safety of our children. As for the current Procedures and Guidelines set down by government, it must change, as Social Wokers cannot do there job properly due to so much red tape and boundries) just like little Baby P. case. I see that that very little has changed with the old system of Social Services in place, yes I do get frustrated with this child protection department, however until these crappy guidelines and procedures are dealt with by government, you will be seeing more kids like baby p being let down, I ask then, when do we see change for the better?? (How many more times does this government need to see before there are more child abuse deaths and cruelity).
Many thousands of children are still being killed, abused and damn right neglected by our UK Government that have drowned our child protections laws, allowed so much red tape within child protection that leads to incompetence of our child abuse system. When will our Government see that the damn system they have in place is doing more harm than good.
Social Workers should be able to do there Job professionally and without all this red taped procedures and guidelines, I beg the question? what happens from here?
