The Sara Sharif case: what is the point of taxpayers funding these failing organisations?

Or, they had 6 more children to urgently see that day and spending time trying to find another address would have meant another child wasn't seen.

Why is my tax funding these useless departments?

These "useless" departments save thousands of children every year. You just don't hear about it.

You only hear about the thankfully rare cases where they fail.

There will never be a perfect infallible system because a system which is staffed and run by humans is always going to have human error.

The main problem highlighted was the lack of experienced social workers and their huge caseloads - I think I read somewhere that they were supposed to be dealing with 6 or 7 cases a day?

Sacking and jailing the few precious social workers we have isn't going make things any better.

The one that got me is the idiots who went the wrong house and decided they wouldn’t bother at all. Those two people in particular could have saved Sara’s life.

So heartbreaking to hear things like this.

And the fact that there are no professional accounts or criminal consequences for such negligence makes people think they can just clock off, and if anything goes wrong, they’ll pass the buck somewhere else.

Social work teams in particular are never held to account it seems. They seem to fail in every direction.

I find it very hard to even read about this story, it is utterly heartbreaking. That poor, poor, dear little girl.

She was absolutely failed by the system, and it's horrifying to see the extent of the failures. However, I don't think it's necessarily helpful to just point the fingers at the institutions that failed her. We need to properly understand how and why things went so horribly wrong. The blame game just gets in the way of that, because it encourages people to be defensive and hide the truth.

They're going to implement pointless controls on home education and say lessons have been learned... Until it happens to another child and then they'll have to find a different scapegoat. The cycle will just continue on and on, there will always be someone or something else to shift focus away from their failings.

"Lessons will be learned"...until next time. Makes me sick 😡