Re: Social services
Oh sure. Remember the huge scandal about the foster-kids in Florida given into the care of criminals last year? We discussed it here, Kukrikhan explained some of the legal and political issues to us. In 1999 incoming Governor Jeb Bush had promised to fix the understaffed, inadequate and disorganised Child Welfare Agency. They are still waiting for his reforms five years on. We are all guilty of this sort of neglect, on both sides of the ocean.Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
The bloody trouble is we are only alive when we’re half dead trying to get a paragraph right. - Paul Scott
Re: Social services
True, but I was talking specifically about social services finding an abused child and doing nothing about it. From EA's post, it seems as this is not a unique incident.
We have some problems with our child services being understaffed or commiting terrible blunders, but usually, when they physically go to a house with abused children, they do something about it.
Crazed Rabbit
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
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