So dont I feel like a horses ass after sticking up for social services all my life!! As some of you may know I was accused by my ss and his BM of commiting some pretty horrific abuse. Only after SS tripped himself up in his dirty little lies did BM make a full retraction and I was cleared. Also no evidence obviously as nothing bad has ever happened to him in my care!! anyhow Social services deemed her an unfit mother and made her youngest 2 sons subject to a 'child in need' programme to help 'support her in her parenting'. We went to the first meeting which was scheduled for 10am. We arrive, she arrives with her mum and older daughter 17 who we later discovered legally shouldnt even have been allowed in the room as she is a minor!.... No social services. We wait 15mins in a room ALONE with her and her entourage with no neutral representation (bear in mind the whole case was started by FALSE ALLEGATIONS) and the social workers let us be in a room alone with them???!!! Anyway social worker swans in at 10:15 laughing about being late! I am not best pleased! BM and family spend the whole meeting refering to me as 'the stranger' and basically calling every other health proffesional involved liars (the school nurse, head teacher, dinner ladies, her GP etc all had nothing but negative things to say about her parenting skills in the official report) So after a while I get a bit annoyed and told her to shut the hell up. At this point the social worker decides to finally open her mouth for the first time but only to say to me 'if you dont calm down I'l have to ask you to leave the room' !!!!! EXCUSE ME!!!

At the weekend we discovered ANOTHER iron burn on SS body (that is 4 burn marks, one scaulding by boiling water, one admittence to A&E bcos he drank a bottle of paracetamol, Two unexplained head injuries in the last 12 months all whilst in his mothers care) So naturally we get straight on to his key worker. 2 days later we get a text (not a phonecall or a visit..a TEXT) from social services to say they have asked BM and she says it was an accident. Well of course thats what she would say!! ONCE is an accident!! All those other things are neglect and abuse. So I get treated like a common criminal when I did nothing wrong but she abuses him and gets a 'support package'. DH bless him just returned the text basically saying its disgusting and what has to happen in order for them to help us? two days later no reply.....absolutely useless!!! I will never stick up for social services ever again. Its no wonder noone has any faith in them!!!