Quote of the day
“Imagine living with a neighbour from hell and then double it. I once rolled the dirt off Shannon’s feet. The mud was like glue, really stuck on. We had beetles and mice in our home which were coming from their house. I think social services should be shot. I used to tell them time and again and all they would say was, ‘We’ll look into it’.”
- Claire Wilson, a former neighbour of Karen and Shannon Matthews, who pointed out that social services had compiled a huge file on Matthews and her children before the kidnapping only for Shannon to be dropped from the list because they declared that her mother did not pose a risk to her (Kirkless council have obtained an emergency court injunction on Wednesday this week that prevented The Times from disclosing the full details of its involvement with Shannon)
Witanagemot Blogs
After the recent highlighting of social services failings they should be banned from having the word ’service’ in their name for they don’t appear to be conducting one!
‘Social Failings’? Or maybe ‘Social Inaction’?
Social inaction – I like that one. I think really sums up what they are all about.
“Social handwringing” ?