
Councils spent £1,000-odd for a GCP2 licence and around £6,000 on training. In 2017 the NSPCC began selling an adapted version, dubbed GCP2. The documents suggest low-income parents are held to standards that would test even relatively affluent middle-class families.įrom the 1990s onwards many local authorities used a scoresheet called the Graded Care Profile (GCP) to assess neglect. However, The Critic has obtained disturbing documents that shed some light on how social workers decide if someone’s parenting is “good enough” to keep their children. Strict secrecy rules covering the family courts mean the detail behind decisions to investigate and remove children rarely becomes public. There are currently more than 80,000 children under council care in England - up from 65,000 a decade ago. Hoping this school year is your best yet.IN 25 LOCAL AUTHORITIES, AN AVERAGE OF ONE CHILD in every 100 live births is taken from its parents in their first week of life, with few being reunited.

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