Oh Lord I wasn't going to post because it was clearly never really a thread about listening, but if @darkriver19886 has the courage and persistence to post, I can't sit back.
I come at this from the adopter's perspective. In my encounters with social workers I have met at least 12:
1 x initial assessor
4 x trainers in therapeutic parenting and trauma in children
2 x full assessors of me over 4 months
2 x children's social worker as my later child changed social worker
3 x post-adoption support workers to help my child start to understand their life story
Of those, I have found:
ALL were over-worked and had huge caseloads
Most were well-intentioned, highly experienced and very carefully neutral (I.e. very careful not to use negative terms to describe a child's birth family)
1 was inexperienced, not great at following through on what they promised, needed a lot of chasing up, and had inaccuracies in their report writing. However, they were supervised, and my complaints were listened to.
I was given reports about my child, that had been part of their court papers, from:
Paediatrician
Health visitor
Specialist medical consultants for specific conditions
Social worker
Nursery worker
Family support worker (summary only, not detail as that confidential to the birth family quite rightly)
Judge's summing up
It took restraining orders from previous partners, many years, and one sibling death, plus years of weekly then daily family support worker interventions, before finally a large group of children were removed (most to other family members). Birth mum is not yet able to see that she put any of her children at risk.
As I access a number of support groups for my child, I know quite a lot of adoptive families. All the children are permanently affected by their early lives. All the children deserve the very best chance at a safe and happy life. Apart from in the very few obvious extreme cases, it is very hard to truly know what is happening inside a family, and that's why social workers are involved long-term often, trying to get to know the true picture and see if support can turn a situation around. It is frustrating for everyone when there's rapid staff turnover, and things seem to stall or mistakes in reports are made.
It's not a perfect system. Safeguards exist, such as the independent assessors, the courts, the requirements for police and health reports and other professionals. It will still never be perfect but that's not a reason to stop trying or take potshots at the good social workers doing their best. (And of course, some in the profession won't be good at their jobs, or will be burned out but still working, or will be careless - like in nursing, or teaching, or office work - because people are people.)
We are ALL responsible and accountable for the community we live in. We could all do more, to support friends, to ask people we suspect are struggling if they need help, to speak up if we think a child is in an unsafe situation. I don't see that making anonymous forum posts about how a whole profession could do better, is helping anyone.