Welfare workers are 'too powerful'

Welfare workers are 'too powerful'

WELFARE officers have "enormous power" to remove children from the care of their parents, while leaving other children to languish in violent homes.

Child welfare advocate Freda Briggs said a recent case -- in which two children were removed from their cannabis-smoking parents despite there being no evidence of neglect or abuse -- was an example of "how much power they've got".