Do you think we should blame social workers for recent events?

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In light of another baby being viciously attacked and killed in his own home only 7 years after a simialer case, and only today another two babies stabbed to death who do we blame?

I feel it a bit poor that the certain little boy in question happend to be seen so often and also was in a foster home a week before he died and still was not removed from his home.

I feel sorry for that little lad who suffered so much at the hands of his own mummy, someone who he trusted and loved. How can a parent torture their own child? Its such a shame more children die in the care of there parents than at the hands of strangers. Question is can it really be stopped?

Isn't it a scapegoat though accusing the social workers of negligence? These people are so good at covering everything and a child so young cannot speak out. Social workers have so many case loads to deal with and probably help save more children than the one or two that slip through the system every so often. No ones perfect and we can always make the wrong decision. After all we are only human!

The only people to blame are the parents and adults that have no conscience, who can hurt a little baby or young child for their own enjoyment. Weak people who pick on animals and children much smaller than them to make them feel good, because they probably would lose in a fight with people there own age!

I have a social worker to help with my eldest daughters problems and I cannot praise her high enough.

There are always good and bad people in jobs, and this case could be a case of purely bad judgement, or ignorance.

Whatever it was that little boy won't be brought back. The only people to blame are the sick people who beat him in the first place, and unfortunetly he isnt ever going to be the last!

Social Services will be blamed and people who probably already feel bad about the choices they made will lose their jobs. We must not forget though that these people are tied with red tape and often cannot just take a child into care. Unfortunetly they have to take into consideration the emotional effect that removing that child from their parents will have over the physical. Daft as it is, this is the law in place that often leaves these poor children in the homes that they were born in, to also die in too.

Who do you blame?

Kate
 
Many of you know what my feelings would be in such cases like these as no child what so ever should have to pay with their life at the hands of anybody, BUT, we have only heard the medias side of the story and with my experience of the details from these types of cases thing will be a lot more complex than they seem.

Yes, an investigation needs to happen but I will never fully believe what I read in the media about these cases.
 
It's hard to know without being more involved but in my opinion in one of the 60 visits that were made to the child's home you would have thought they would take a look at the child and surely just looking at the child would have shown something to be wrong. The child minder said you could even see sadness in the child's eyes. Plus the doctor who didn't examine the child because it was crying and distressed is a disgrace. Its back was broken, no wonder it was distressed.

Red tape or no red tape there was still negligence on behalf of the social workers. I would like to think that the child's physical health would be put in front of future psychological problems that would not actually occur if the child was taken away and looked after properly. Those that were directly hurting the child are to blame but those who didn't protect the child should also be held accountable, but just because the social workers in this case failed doesn't mean all social workers are the same. This is so unbelievably sad. I'm sure every one of us would have taken the child and cared for it if we could have. :cry: We can only hope a lesson is learnt-examine the child carefully all over for one and check the child's living conditions. Surely these are basic common sense though, so yes they are incompetent. This child was missing fingers for gods sake, how can that be missed?
 
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There are so many people to blame for this sort of thing.
The system has broken down at many stages.
Firstly, how is it that it's harder to get a rescue dog than it is to have a baby?!
What possesses these young girls to get up the duff at such a young age when they're barely able to dress themselves let alone take care of an infant.
I reckon that the social services actually need to wise up a bit when it comes to suspect families. Surely it's better to be over cautious? (though of course it's easy to be wise after the event!)
I suspect that lots of people had their suspicions about the parents, and as someone rather more eloquent than I mooted "bad things happen when good people do nothing"
Poor little boy.
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I dont think this really is a topic we should be discussing here. Whenever we have threads involving children, they end up going pearshaped.

I am not specifically meaning this situation but none of us know what desperate measures some people have to go through in their lives and it is not down to us to make judgements on others which is what will happen if this thread carries on.
 
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