Over the weekend, Martin Narey, Chief Executive at Barnardo's made a statement in which he called for more children to be taken into care as babies from "families who can't be fixed" in order to prevent them from being harmed.
Narey, who is a former director general of the Prison Service, made the comments in a response to last week's court case involving two young brothers from Doncaster who viciously attacked an 11-year-old boy and his nine-year-old nephew. Read more in the Guardian.
However, the Government rejected Mr Narey's calls. Ed Balls claimed that taking babies into care should not be a first resort. He said: "I don't think the right thing to do in these cases is immediately to put children into care." Read more on the BBC website. He said that the first thing to consider would be whether the problems within the family could be sorted out.
Do you agree with Martin Narey, or do you think that social workers should work with families where children may be at risk in order to try to resolve the problems and ensure that they can stay safely in their family homes?