Judge slams social workers who broke up family over anonymous tip-off that boy, 12, claimed his mother threatened him with a knife

Social workers broke up a family on the basis of a text message sent by a boy of 12.

The child was said to have told a friend his mother threatened him with a knife and as a result two of his siblings were taken into care.

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