Social Services should be prosecuted for negligent manslaughter

[KaurDee]

I have just started a petition on Change.org head as above. Please would you consider signing this. No-one wants to hear the words "we made mistakes and will learn from them" after a child is brutally killed whilst known to Social Services. No-one can forget the recent horrific case of the murdered school girl Sara Shariff. Incompetent Social Services are just as equally responsible for her death. The law must be changed so Social Services know what they could be charged with. Please Please sign this so the law can be changed. Thank you

The problem is not individual social workers but underfunding of services. They cannot recruit now so imagine if they brought in your bonkers plan!

I do wonder what the responses here would be if you changed Social Services to Police. Expectations of accountability are different for roles based on their popularity. But that's off topic!

Public services are so underfunded and crumbling in this country. The general public have no idea just how bad it is behind the scenes. The news portrays it as "struggling", but it's just absolutely beyond words dire. Normal people are doing their best under ridiculous workloads and work stresses. High pressure and highly traumatic jobs constantly. Being expected to work flawlessly under extremely difficult working conditions and with perfect hindsight.

These things should never ever happen and it's heartbreaking, but it's the result of an extremely broken system. We need our public services to be fixed. How we do that I don't know, it's so broken now that I don't think the government knows either.

That poor little girl is the result of a broken system.

Surrey aren't unique in their shortfall, but it makes me sick the director of children's services got a OBE while heading up the service. So much I could say but she got the obe. Undoubtedly those not on the receiving end will defend her

@CharismaticPelican The answers would be different if you changed the role to Police because the jobs are very different!

However, in general, I don't think anyone should be prosecuted for an error of judgement when doing their role. If someone is doing their best, and following laid down procedures, then isn't that enough? SWs, police, doctors. People who have to make life or death decisions without lots of time to discuss with others.
Negligence yes. Honest mistakes. No.

1. The judge made the decision
2. how many people who make these statements are foster catered or emergency foster carers
3. removing children rightly has an extremely high threshold for evidence and is not a short process
4. you do the job then, maybe you can show them what you’re here doing wrong
5. all of these jobs will have human error. This increases with over work underpayment and a job that puts you face to face with dangerous and traumatised people

About 2children are killed a week -singling out one case and demanding law changes is silly