How on earth did the the authorities let this happen?

[phykell]

Originally Posted by Matblack

It will avoid them but I can catagorically say it won't stop them and when the next one occurs we'll have another enquiry and that might vilify a few people who will have to live their lives having stones thrown at them but it will happen again and again, even if social workers never get sight of the child concerned. The upshot is there are vicious, mentaly ill people out there who will do this kinid of thing and the tigher we try to grasp there will still be cases that slip through, we are already in a situation where administration is outweighing contact time and SWs have less and less time with the families and there will always be professionals from other disiplines like the health services who won't understand or believe the injuries they are seeing are from abuse we can reduce it but not eliminate it.

When something like this does happen again the press will decend like dogs on a rotting corpse and there will be another witch hunt. I am sorry this happened but social workers work to reduce these occurances they won't be able to eliminate them.

MB

The cynic in me agrees with you and I have little optimism left. Ultimately, people will continue looking for scapegoats, the media will continue trying to provide them with one, and the people who are actually out there trying to make a difference will eventually give up and do something else instead. It will be the kids who actually lose out as a result. You'd think there would be some sort of reasonable compromise, but no