City of York Council is accused of a £1 million fiasco over benefit payments etc (December 2).
Many councils have a bad habit of throwing money down the drain by putting innocent children into foster care - at the cost of £250 a child per week on a regular basis - often because of incompetent social workers' misguided assessments.
It is a case of pounce first - often on the wrong people - and assess later when the court orders are in place. Families are the more obvious ones to care for their own, no matter what problems face the parents. Get the right balance and do not push innocent children into the care of strangers and possibly cause more problems for them later.
J Rollinson,
New Lane,
Huntington, York.
Updated: 10:25 Wednesday, December 08, 2004
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