....couldn't get worse, read this story that has just been on ITV News! 
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/Social-workers-snatch-elderly-mum-998035701.html
So now a caring, loving, well equipped daughter cannot care for her elderly mother with dementia, without social services, with police armed with a door hammer, demanding she goes back to a care home! A care home the daughter felt was (typically!!) not giving her mother the treatment she deserved!
What bloody next?
!!!!!
there has to be more to this story than that .....
no court in the country would deny a family caring for their elderly members unless there was safety concerns regarding the old dear.
it would be interesting to find out the full story it could be financially motivated i doubt we will ever know
Doug
That sounds great and fine in a perfect world and that is how it should work
However, social services have I'm afraid "got form", with some terrible practices undertaken by them. I have personally come across cases where, as I stated before, social services think, and act, as though they are above the law. In my experience locally there are many instances of 'very unusual' actions, or non-actions, being taken by them In one case in particular a court ruled and placed on record, in documents I have seen, that on no less than 8 (EIGHT) separate points in one child adoption case the local ss had
acted illegally to take the child away from it's parents.
So, you see how just because the ss had obtained a court order that does not mean they have acted and considered the case correctly.
Indeed James not all facts are known, but I do believe the main news agencies quoted in this thread have been thorough in their reporting, with consistent facts obtained that I note are not being disputed, with the daughter now taking legal action.
I
know the police are not always perfect, and in this instance they have been requested to back up social services in their action to support the court order, but either they over played the situation on their own part, being totally heavy handed, or due to an incorrect brief by social services. In my experience the latter is very plausible.
You and I both know James that the level of police back up, with enforcer, to a private address to confront a woman looking after her elderly mother, with no suggestion of a (drug / violent / etc) gang involved is outside of the expected level of support. One officer is usually sufficient to back up the social workers.
As this plays out we will of course know all the relevant facts, but already I note a "distancing" from this event by certain officials.
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