Guilty until proven exhausted

The asymmetric burden in adult safeguarding

The structural mechanism that decides a largely unmeasured proportion of safeguarding disputes is not legal, not procedural, and almost never named. A family that is right faces a council that does not have to prove its case, in proceedings the family cannot afford to enter, while doing care work the council will not fund. Eventually the family stops. The system records the outcome as resolution.

By Antisocial Care