Who Needs A Legal System When You Have The Ss ?

[youngmafbog]

Yet another utterly disgraceful case.

Why are heads not rolling?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5574923/Teacher-falsely-accused-groping-students-adopted-child-removed.html

[ummmm]

What did you expect SS to do?

[dannyk13]

Return the child.The man is innocent.

[naomi24]

ummmm, I would expect them to do the right thing - and what they've does isn't right.

[ummmm]

If the accusations had been true then people would be up in arms had SS left the child in his care. It's a risk they weren't willing to take.

[naomi24]

But they weren't true and they're still not doing the right thing.

[ummmm]

No...they weren't but maybe it's not in the best interest of the child for it to be returned. I can't see in the article where it mentions the age of the child.

[naomi24]

Or perhaps not in the best interests of Social Services to be seen to have messed up so shamefully. Sweep it under the carpet - it will soon be forgotten - by all but the people involved.

[fiction-factory]

I assume the child's interests were considered paramount. We don't know enough to say whether it would or would not have been in the child's interests to have to move again given that a new bond may have developed (or not).

[ummmm]

That's my thoughts, FF.

[naomi24]

//Senior teachers criticised the 'vicious process' in which police, social workers and school managers colluded in a 'culture of cowardice' to protect themselves during such incidents.//

^That says it all.

[Jackdaw33]

Utterly disgraceful. I think SS is a very appropriate abbreviation. Yet little children have been known to die at the hands of their 'carers' and they don't intervene.

[ummmm]

They can't watch people on their radar 24/7.

[Jackdaw33]

Surely if the child has been legally adopted and he has been found to be innocent, then there can be no grounds for not returning him/her. I'm glad I'm not in teaching anymore.

[fiction-factory]

The false accusers seem to be the only ones to have come out unscathed, sadly

[bednobs]

social services (like any organisation) can't get it right 100% of the time. Considering how many families they are involved with, they do get things right the majority of the time (and we don'r hear about these times as it doesn't make good headlines). It seems entirely appropriate o me that we don't know why the child was not returned. I would guess that nobody who works as a social worker goes to work in the morning and sets out to do a maliciously bad job.
Jackdaw33's comment is a perfect example of "damned if they do, damned if they don't"

[ummmm]

I don't know anything about adoption but I don't think SS end their involvement as soon as the papers are signed.

[Jackdaw33]

I accept that there may be more to this scenario than we are told, but in the absence of further information we can only judge on what we have.

[bednobs]

why do we have to "judge" at all?

[naomi24]

//I would guess that nobody who works as a social worker goes to work in the morning and sets out to do a maliciously bad job.//

Doubtless, but Social Services does appear to employ its fair share of people whose determination to be seen to be doing ‘the right thing’ overrides common sense.

[bednobs]

there is, necessarily a lot of confidentiality around cases that social services are handling, so i doubt anybody wants to be "seen to be doing the right thing" as nobody, except their colleagues and the families they are working with usually see anything