Social workers speak out over child protection cuts
 

"We were told by a senior manager that our area has too many child protection cases and that it was above national average, so all cases had to be examined and downgraded."

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I think this is absolutely discusting.
It seems to be putting alot of pressure on us as practitioners to comply with the current legislation so every professional should too. (not blaming social workers because it's not their fault if there's no money for new social workers but surely on such an immportant issue then money should be found to support these children or young adults).
We fund raise for other countries, when there are children suffering here doesn't seem right to me but not against the fund raising for other countries .:frown: