Same question to all those pp who say they wouldn't let them look after their children. Obviously I can understand the risk if the person in question was abusive or an addict but what if they weren't? Why would you think them a risk to your child?
Risk is a interesting thing.
You may think risk that the person would hurt or abuse your child, where as I may think "do I need to expose my children to the risk that I could be asked to justify my decision to leave my child in their care and have my children placed elsewhere for about a minimum of 16 weeks,whilst someone else decides if my choice was acceptable or not"
Fwiw as a person no I would not judge because you asked would you without knowing why.
Having been a SW (now not) for years and years and felt a great deal of sadness at many situations that are beyond the parents control,and heard enough judges make comments along the lines of "it is without a doubt that you love your child,it is without a doubt that you have not harmed your child, it is however without a doubt that the situation they have been placed in has now led to them thriving and being settled elsewhere and it would be harmful to change that" to not do so.
In my personal life I have two friends who have had kids removed one is no longer a friend because of the situation the other I feel the greatest sadness for, it was not her fault not even a tiny bit of it and I feel partially responsible for the events because it was me with my faith in a service that advised her to contact them for support for her clearly disabled child.
Who ended up in care as a result of his disability against her will but on a very misused sec 20 thst did end up months later in court, threshold criteria was never met, she was accused of making up his disability SS making up the issues he was having,they blocked her obtaining any help and support for him both in the 18 months of involvement prior to the sec 20 then whilst he was on the sec 20 because apparently doing so was emotional abuse,They then very effectively alienated her.
He is now a LAC and very surprisingly attending one of the most sought after indie specialist school placements solely for children with his supposedly imaginary disability and has been in 5+ foster homes because nobody else can manage him either. Sadly she despite still having PR has not even been informed that he has a DX now nor has she been told what school he attends so she has no clue about any of this.
And yes I have seen every single document including the court stuff and yes the judge in the case totally agrees with me as does every single professional I sent her way to try and help.
You may be asking yourself what grounds the CO was finally granted on if the judge agreed that she hadn't abused her child in any way or was not at risk of doing so? Well care orders can also be granted under another criteria and one that a honest loveing decent parent would have no choice but to agree to under those circumstances and would do so because of the best interests of her child despite it only being in her best interests because of the LA.
And that is not identifying at all because the area is notorious for it.