For me, the issue is less the threat of law and the courts and more the complete disinterest and, over the years, increasing ingratitude of parents when you take their children away.
I must have taken more than 1,000 young people away on residential weekends.
Each time, I duly sent out the parental consent forms with the necessary information provided, along with that final sentence: "Should there be anything else you would like to know, please don't hesitate to get in touch."
With hand on heart, I can honestly say that only three - yes, just three - parents ever got in touch. One, a social worker, was genuinely interested in what we did on the weekends and how we went about organising things.
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