man, one case was heartbreaking because the kid had a spark. she was 11, got removed from her father because he was a piece of shit alcoholic and would always have his piece of shit alcoholic mates around. had a hole in the floor of his front room (i imagine taxpayers were paying for) because he/they has done a fire on the floor, which had burned through the floorboards. so now there was just a dirt pit in the lounge room where they'd all get shitfaced on goon and stones. kid was sexually assaulted at some point, and removed into resi. where she was sexually assaulted by a 17 year old male and ended up pregnant. the dffh plan to manage this was, i shit you not, "once the baby is born we'll place the baby with the kids father." yep, the very same guy they removed the kid from in the first place. i was asked to leave this meeting after i shared my thoughts on this idea because "i wasn't being helpful." my path and this kid's path crossed a number of times over the years, through a number of different organisations and there was no happy ending.    long story short - he was case managing a young lad i was working with. 14 angry, but a nice kid in general. i never had an issue with him. as an aside, i had 2 care team meetings where everyone sat around talking about how the kid needs to get back to school (this was post lockdowns, which completely fucked up a generation of kids and their education/mental health). the kid wanted to go to school, his ma wanted him to go to school, but 2 meetings in 2 months and no cunt did anything. i called the school, had him enrolled within a week. at the next meeting, everyone in the care team meeting was freaking out because i had just gone an got shit done. but i digress. this kid ran away from home one night. ended up at a resi where couple of young girls (14+15) "lived". he was, legally, not allowed to be there due to court orders. now this african fella knew where he was, should have gone and collected him...
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