The British Association of Social Workers (BASW) has stated that it is astonished by comments made by the new president of the Family Division, Lord Justice Wall, who stated in his judgment in EH v London Borough of Greenwich [2010] EWCA Civ 344 that some social workers do little to dispel the perception that they are “arrogant and enthusiastic removers of children from their parents into an unsatisfactory care system – trampling on the rights of parents and children in the process.”

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