Social workers who believe that parents have harmed their children say they always act ‘in the best interests of the child’. But what happens to those parents who protest – and believe that they can prove – their innocence? In a two-part investigation into the closed world of child protection, Cassandra Jardine hears from families who have suffered at the hands of a system they say is unjust and biased – and uncovers disturbing suggestions that, in one county at least, the council’s efforts to meet government adoption targets may be making a bad situation worse….

Daily Telegraph