A Tragedy Waiting to Happen

The tragic fire in Derby, where five children died,  was one of those incidents, where I thought there was a lot more to the story than initial reports, led us to believe.

It now appears that the father had had seventeen children by six different women and that a woman in her late twenties has been arrested for starting the fire.  The father has also appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show, which probably adds even more to the story.

A lot of C’s work as a barrister, concerned sorting out families like this one. Usually, at the centre of her cases was a woman, who couldn’t say no! She would often act for the Council to get the children taken in to care.

So what is the difference here?

The state this family lived in wasn’t good, so why weren’t some of these children taken into care and fostered? I have known of families with ten or more children that were well run and the children were well looked after, but usually in these cases, both parents were model ones.

So what were Derby Social Services doing?

It would appear very little in a constructive manner! Otherwise this tragedy wouldn’t have happened.

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