Social services 'still failing families'

Petitioner airs concerns

A petitioner has called for an investigation into children and family social services to be reopened.

Tynwald's Social Affairs Policy Review Committee published a report two years ago identifying numerous failings in the system.

Among the reccommendations were stopping uneccessary referrals to social services, and a focus on keeping families together rather than breaking them up.

But Robert Hendry from Ramsey believes the conclusions were ignored by the Department of Health and Social Care - and children and families are still suffering.

He used Tynwald Day to call on politicians to look into the issue again: