Lloyd90 Posted June 3, 2016 Report Share Posted June 3, 2016 Hopefully things have improved nowadays, but back when I was in the police in the 70's, 80's and 90's, we used to reckon that the most certain way for a child to come to harm was for him/her to be placed on the Social Services 'At Risk' register. One case in particular I remember; after a late night call regarding a baby crying continually, we broke into a house, found the baby alone, freezing cold, in a urine-saturated cot, in an unheated house. We looked after the child at the police station, (giving it a clean nappy, made from a tea-towel stolen from the canteen), had it examined by the police surgeon, and waited for hours for Social Services to attend and place the child in care. In fact, what happened was that they returned the child to the parents the very next day; as apparently leaving the baby there, while they were out at the pub, was a minor transgression, and the parents had assured them it would not happen again... I never found out if anything further untoward occurred, but any parents who could go out boozing, leaving a few months old baby alone in an unheated house should not be allowed to have children. As I said, hopefully things are better now... Mike. Not at all Mike, Thing is a hell of a lot of people shouldn't have kids. See a lot of people who are disinterested, not bothered etc etc. I just its just the "done thing" or someone gets knocked up and that's that. I have heard of some social services who are so over loaded with cases they simply refused to accept any new referrals!!! How bad is that ?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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