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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-12340093

Another neglect and dead baby who from the sound of it will have died in agony.

blah blah scumbag alcoholic mum

blah blah predictable and preventable

blah blah social workers

blah blah lessons learned

How many more times are these people going to learn the same lesson and at what point do we stop all this left wing ***** about putting these kids with parents like this 'because it is their right and/or best for the child' (delete as appropriate depending what apologist drivel you are being forced to read) and simply start making sure that anyone with issues like this is given regular injections so they can't breed until they've shown they can actually look after themselves not to mention a baby or simply just admit it doesn't work and find these kids a family that will actually want them?

Fed up of reading about this now. It should be sorted out.

5t.

EddScott

It doesn't score very high on the government's "give a ****" ometer so that aspect of social care gets badly underfunded, badly managed and badly staffed. Similar to the issue surrounding Snazy and care for his mum - those in the social care employ fall into two categories - ones that really care and end up leaving within 2 years because they can't cope and ones that don't give a ****, take the wage and run.

If these occurences happend within a private sector service, those responsible for the failure would likely see jail time. As its government run social its just "never mind lesson learned" or not.

stilover

You only hear about the ones they fail to save.

How many have they saved?

Blaming the Local health care and Government is fine, but if you were tasked with assessing every child, would you get everyone correct every time?

Don't blame the system, blame the mother who did this to her own child.

Gear Head

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Totally agree with that statement.
A baby can die of neglect in a couple of days. How often do social workers visit suspect parents? Once a week max?

No different to members on here complaining of engine failures.
You never hear of the ones that have 150k plus!

alcazar

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My wife works in education. One of her pet gripes is the turnover of social services staff. She hardly ever gets to deal with the same social worker more than twice. Makes for VERY poor continuity, and mistakes happen.

They had a major one just after Christmas and as usual, they just brushed it under the carpet and said, "we'll learn from this."

J4CKO

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I think given the workload, resources and the fact they tread a fine line a lot of the time they dont do a bad job, just when it does go wrong it is so catastrophic, not a job I would want to do.

Remember some of these parents are off the radar as they move about, they can be tricky f*ckers as well and there are more bad parents than social workers, not saying that there are not bad social workers or that they dont make mistakes but good god that job must be tough, talk about plate spinning.