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Why where they not put straight in care?
We know a couple with three children, 1 girl around 5 and 3 and 1 year old boys. Recently we have found out the children have been put under a child protection act. The dad picked the little girl up and dunked her head in the toilet, the little girl told her teacher and she contacted soical servecis etc. I found what he did uttely appaling and am wondering why the children were not put in care. please help me understand
thank you x
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Children are very rarely taken into care before other measures are taken to try to help the family cope. The emphasis is trying to keep families together, which comes along with all sorts of support.
A child protection act means the family will receive regular visits from Social Services - these are to help the parents learn new parenting strategies, as well as checking that the children are okay. There are varying levels of support available.
In reality, there are many many worse cases of abuse out there. I am not in any way excusing what this father has done, only saying that children at much higher levels of risk are more likely to be taken out and put in care.
It's also important to remember that, in theory, everything happening with this family is confidential. This means that whatever information you have may be incomplete or not quite the whole truth. The only ones who really understand what is happening is the family itself, and hopefully they will work with Social Services to improve their children's health and well being.
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The reason was the father dunking her head in the toilet. That would be considered abuse. In this case they did that to protect the children from any more abuse.
Hope that helps.
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