Note that everything I have to say here refers to the child "protection" arm of social work, not carers etc.
Taffy, you have my greatest sympathy... I was closely involved in something similar, although in this case there was a clear personal agenda on the part of one social worker and one or two local health "professionals", with a really awful, spiteful, manipulative and downright dishonest female police officer. Did I mention the malicious young classroom assistant (her own debauched life a complete mess) and the weak, inadequate and double-faced school headmistress who conveniently left the country after helping getting the ball rolling?
Once you have two or more of these so called "professional" branches on the same track against you, there is almost nothing at all that you can do; while "they" can fill their fictional reports with all the injustices, insults and malicious lies they like, all your facts, truth and evidence doesn't count for a fig (supposing you are actually permitted to give it - usually it's misrepresented and twisted.)
While there may (and statistically there must) be such a thing as an honest social worker, from what I have seen they are a vanishing minority, and will be crushed and expelled from a terrifyingly Orwellian system which is rotten to the very core. Funnily enough, exactly what happened to the fairly decent guy who was subsequently called in to investigate the mess and was none too complimentary about the way it was handled.
CharlieBoy, your attitude brought it all back to me in a flash - "shut your face you ignorant nobodies, WE know what's going on in your family and we'll do what we like about it - you're irrelevant and powerless."
One last thing... don't think that SW only prey on the run-down council estate dwelling drug abusing parents (those are too scary to deal with.) I am talking about a perfectly middle class, well known and "respectable" family - in their sick, twisted minds, social workers love to demonise this type, probably through a kind of (subconcious, no doubt) envy in a lot of cases.
Taffy, you have my greatest sympathy... I was closely involved in something similar, although in this case there was a clear personal agenda on the part of one social worker and one or two local health "professionals", with a really awful, spiteful, manipulative and downright dishonest female police officer. Did I mention the malicious young classroom assistant (her own debauched life a complete mess) and the weak, inadequate and double-faced school headmistress who conveniently left the country after helping getting the ball rolling?
Once you have two or more of these so called "professional" branches on the same track against you, there is almost nothing at all that you can do; while "they" can fill their fictional reports with all the injustices, insults and malicious lies they like, all your facts, truth and evidence doesn't count for a fig (supposing you are actually permitted to give it - usually it's misrepresented and twisted.)
While there may (and statistically there must) be such a thing as an honest social worker, from what I have seen they are a vanishing minority, and will be crushed and expelled from a terrifyingly Orwellian system which is rotten to the very core. Funnily enough, exactly what happened to the fairly decent guy who was subsequently called in to investigate the mess and was none too complimentary about the way it was handled.
CharlieBoy, your attitude brought it all back to me in a flash - "shut your face you ignorant nobodies, WE know what's going on in your family and we'll do what we like about it - you're irrelevant and powerless."
One last thing... don't think that SW only prey on the run-down council estate dwelling drug abusing parents (those are too scary to deal with.) I am talking about a perfectly middle class, well known and "respectable" family - in their sick, twisted minds, social workers love to demonise this type, probably through a kind of (subconcious, no doubt) envy in a lot of cases.