Professor Eileen Munro

Professor Eileen Munro

Note: I am posting several links on this, not because I support this person's take on the child protective workers, because giving them the power to make their own decisions will only bring about a massive rise in child snatchings.

Social workers should be free to decide what is best for children rather than following government targets, a sweeping review of England's child protection system said today.

The current "one size fits all" approach should be scrapped and professionals should be trusted to think for themselves, it said.

Munro report: child protection work must be freed from box-ticking

Analysis: Less heat, more light on child protection

Call to end 'child protection red tape'

Child protection review says too much focus on targets

Child protection system shake-up urged

Munro Review: social workers 'to face random checks'