Babies 'removed to meet targets' WTF !!!!!

[StewyGriffin]

This is another example of the mess this country is in and why it hasn't been given more coverage by the media is beyond me. Perhaps it would if the babies had made some possibly racist comments.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6297573 .stm

[rojash]

Well, if you'd read the article instead of just the headline, you'd see that there is no actual evidence that it is true - just the claims of one MP.

[noxlumos]

Well clearly this MP thinks he has grounds to make this statement and on such an important topic I think there should be ultimate transparency. You can't make this right if you made a mistake, once you've wrongly adopted a kid it's all too late, so yes, lets have someone to watch the watchers, makes perfect sense and hopefully they will find that this MP is barking up the wrong tree and if he isn't then there is someone there to speak for people whose children might have been forecibly taken and adopted without proper grounds.
This is a very important allegation that strikes at the heart of the most fundamental of anyone's rights, that to parent their child in the way they see fit as long as they do a reasonable job. Kids in danger need to be removed, but kids who are not need their parents.

[Haggisdj]

I worked for 20 months doing admin work for social workers in Hertfordshire and in my experience they will do everything humanly possible to keep children with their parents...