A mum rushes home to find two social workers in her living room, who ask her to explain a small bruise on her baby’s arm. After finding empty alcohol bottles in the house, they physically restrain the mother so they can take the child to hospital. The distressed mum runs alongside the car as her child is driven away.
As any children’s social worker will have guessed, this is not a real-life scenario. It’s a scene from an episode of EastEnders aired earlier this year. The BBC received 193 complaints, the majority focusing on the inaccurate portrayal of social work procedures.
One social worker – who asked not to be named – told CYP Now why she was driven to contact the BBC.
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