Sorry but my eyes were opened with my own experience as to how much the department, family and so on will lie to get what ever they want. I have since watched many families have the same happen to them. One parent creating lies, grandparents, family and so on using the system to punish and hurt and get what they want. Add to that all the issues in the social services departments themselves and you would be shocked. Workers with a criminal history of sexual abuse agianst minors, foster families and workers (including heads of departments) found to have child porn and using the foster children to make more child porn and so on. Children dieing in foster care with no info except the fact of the death released to the parents. To have blind faith in the social services program is wrong and just sticking your head in the sand. Too many people choose to keep their heads there instead of opening their eyes to the truth of the situation. Families are torn apart if a social worker decides they do not like you. Proven cases of many a social worker lieing in their case logs to keep children from families. Social workers and foster families with awful criminal records. And these are not once in a while cases. They are happening all the time. THe system needs a complete over haul. People who make false claims need to be held accountable. As it stands they can hide behind the laws to protect someone calling in. Social workers and foster families need to be more extensively checked out and so on. There are tons of things that need to be changed but until people experience the lies and their own families torn apart they won't open their eyes or help change the system and by then in is too late.
Never trust in a system that has 0 accountability to anyone and they don't. I could provide litterally thousands of links to news stories from all over the world, but mainly Canada and the US where what I have stated is a fact just in the past couple of years. But until people want to admit their is an issue in this system they won't listen anyway.
These are just a few from Alberta from just the past few weeks and this is just about deaths while kids are in foster care. These are news links that Legally Kidnapped provides links to the actual news story:
Family continues to fight for answers surrounding foster care death
http://www.leducrep.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3538582
"The government reported — between Apr. 1, 2011 and Mar. 31 — 10 children died while in care. 13 died the year earlier. Children who died due to illness while in care were included in those numbers.
The cause of the death for the 10 children were:
Five children died due to medical conditions
One youth died due to head trauma (sustained at a house party)
One child died due to homicide
The cause of death for one of the children is undetermined (according to the Medical Examiner’s report)
The cause of death for the remaining two children is pending
Delonna is included in the 10 deaths last year, but it is unknown what her official cause of death is.
“We can’t comment on any of the specifics,†said Roxanne Dube Coelho, spokesperson for Alberta Human Services."
Fatalities of children in care symbolic of ‘broken system’
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news...are+symbolic+broken+system/6481524/story.html
"Over the past decade, children apprehended by the Alberta government have been almost twice as likely to die as children in the general population, according to numbers made public for the first time Wednesday.
That’s a painful number for people who feel like their children are trapped in the system."
End publication bans in child welfare system
Parents demand more transparency and accountability
http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/publication+bans+child+welfare+system/6459363/story.html
"A group of parents demanding more openness and account-ability from Alberta's child welfare system protested in front of Calgary's courthouse on Friday.
The Children's Army wants greater oversight for caseworkers and foster parents and an end to sweeping publication bans in cases involving children who have died in care."