Why do children keep falling through the net?

Two separate articles in the past few days about how children have died from appalling abuse by their parents. In neither case did any agency seem to talk to others, and they saw very little of the children. After each case, the mantra 'it won't happen again' is repeated, but until child services get adequate funding, and social workers are not expected to cope with huge caseloads in understaffed departments, it will keep happening. Children should not have to put up with such abuse in this day and age, and perhaps as a society, we should say something if we see abuse happening, not just pretend that it is only a one off. We owe it to them, they deserve a safe, and hopefully happy, childhood.

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