The baby with no name story actually has two parents that wanted to name it but weren't allowed without social workers attending the ceremony. "A judge accepted that the child was “thriving”. The father accused of hitting a social worker was actually "normally a peaceable man who treats everyone with respect” but "could not hide his increasing impatience at the constant intrusions of social workers into his family’s life". "The social worker, as confirmed by a lawyer present, punched him on the shoulder. The father, in self-defence, took a swing at his head, and was fined £430 for assault."
It is a total disgrace that families are still being treated like this by Social Services and the family courts. Read this: Telegraph article
I don't know this family, but I was accused of child abuse by Social Services after an innocent accident and it was the same county as this family. Although vindicated as innocent after five weeks of not being allowed on my own with my baby, I still cannot bare to hear my daughter's original name and actually changed it by deed poll to what we were always calling her since the day we named her. I can fully understand why the father didn't want Social Services at his child's naming ceremony.
We were repeatedly bullied by our social worker and Social Services made lots of mistakes including calling my husband the wrong name in documents, telling us that supervision was removed and then changing their minds and not notifying us of the change and more. Again and again, we were told if we didn't do exactly what Social Services wanted we could lose custody of our child. We were told that being eloquent means you're more likely to be manipulative and all sorts of class nonsense.
In this day and age of technology, why is Social Services not recording all conversations with families? That would rather quickly safeguard innocent families against some of social services unprofessional and bullying behaviour. Surely it's time for a Mumsnet campaign about Social Services and the family courts still removing children from innocent, caring families?