Well, I hate to be a peg in the wheel, and truly I do not know how UK social 
services works, but I do know how the U.S. system does.  I have worked as a 
CPS worker here in the U.S. and have "taken nursing babies from arms" and 
have had court orders put in place to cease mothers from nursing their 
babies.  There is ALWAYS more than meets the eye in these cases.  It takes 
in the U.S. anyway, hours of hard follow up and work to take a child out of 
the parent custody, because in general, most parents with help (typically drug 
rehab) and education they can do a much better job of raising their children 
than the government.  In my experience, taking a child away from their family 
is never an easy or hasty choice made by social workers.  I had parents of a 
child I took out a custody years ago also do a letter campaign, it did not 
change a thing.  The parents instead need to focus their energies on what is 
needed to get their child back in their care in a safe environment.  

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