Indeed, the courts play a large role here. However, the situation can be exasperated if social services do not recognize what’s happened. If the court, for example, places the children under the care of an unhealthy parent and a healthy, frustrated parent is left with that situation, often looking after the children who are not then being looked after by the unhealthy parent, social services is not stepping in to help with this situation. Obviously the children then put up with the consequences.
There’s an obvious role for social services to step in. Is there a review of that sort of case and that sort of situation? What’s our safeguard there?