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Newport case - taking children into care wrongly hurts the children

The link is to today's story in The Mirror about the Newport Case.

What those who defend the current system have to recognise is that taking children into care hurts the children. Where it was not necessary substantial damage has been done without good reason.

Yes there will always be times when children do need to be taken into care, but there should be good well argued reasons first.

The biggest trauma caused to many children is the step of taking them into care. In studying this it seems clear to me that the system is doing masses of damage to people (parents and children).

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