It's not the actual social workers themselves in my opinion, who have a quite unenviable job to do, but the regulatory system or "monitoring" that must surely be in place at a higher level which causes such problems. The saying "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't" is never so apt as in any case where social workers have difficult decisions to make.
Surely, there's a hierarchy in place where cases such as this should have had a much closer scrutiny by higher paid and accountable people before Shannon was removed from the CP register? Isn't that how social care should operate? It's quite beyond me how in a country that's supposed to be as civilised as we have a reputation for being, a woman such as this can have been allowed to produce children and keep them in the conditions she apparently did. The neighbour interviewed on Panorama last night said she tried several times to get someone to act on her concerns - and that's all wrong in a case where the family was already known to have serious concerns about its ability to care for the children in it.
Surely, there's a hierarchy in place where cases such as this should have had a much closer scrutiny by higher paid and accountable people before Shannon was removed from the CP register? Isn't that how social care should operate? It's quite beyond me how in a country that's supposed to be as civilised as we have a reputation for being, a woman such as this can have been allowed to produce children and keep them in the conditions she apparently did. The neighbour interviewed on Panorama last night said she tried several times to get someone to act on her concerns - and that's all wrong in a case where the family was already known to have serious concerns about its ability to care for the children in it.
