Quote by Dave__Notts
" You have to brace yourself even to imagine the smell that greeted the police as they enetered the council flat where baby p lived and died. There was dog mess and human mess on the floor, along with the bodies of dead chicks, mice and a dismembered rabbit-food for a hungry rottweiler and 3 other dogs. The living room floor was littered with pornograghy.
If this is in any way true it's very difficult to understand how the various agencies could leave a child in such an environment, not withstanding the allegations of abuse.
Try watching a life of grime or go out for a week with your local Environmental Health Department. This type of home is not uncommon and if they put all children who live in this type of environment into care then I have no idea where the funds would come from.
Dave_Notts
When I was on the ambulances entering houses with similar descriptions was alarmingly common and in my experience was rarely if ever given as a reason to take a child away from its parents into care.
What we have here is a situation where one person's standard of living is being used as a subjective measure on what life should be like for others too.
The fact of the matter is that more families live in squalor than you would reasonably expect in the 21st Century. As such when it is shown to people who don't live in squalor they believe that certain things should happen purely because of the squalor.