The Action for Children survey of the public, police and professionals working across health, social care and education found widespread concern that the thresholds for intervention were being set too high.
Of those social workers polled, 42 per cent felt thresholds where too high. In addition, 52 per cent said they struggle to intervene even when thresholds are met because of a lack of resources. More than 4,000 people took part in the survey.
The situation has got worse since 2009 when a third of social workers felt powerless to intervene. During this latest survey 51 per cent of social workers and 36 per cent of police officers said they felt powerless to intervene in neglect cases.
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