in the care of child, youth and family

It is clear that social workers who are employed by the government are happy to take children away if their parents use reasonable force to discipline them. What is not so clear, however , is whether they are better off after being taken away.
In many cases they are not. This blog has highlighted cases where children are clearly not better off.

And after they have been taken in the care of Child, Youth and Family, some go off to work as sex workers on the streets. Some have cellphones and exchange numbers with clients to avoid detection. Police do a swoop and catch the girls on the streets.

Then they refer one back to their foster home. She`d be better off in a residential facility.

This is not caring for children. The police may never have done a swoop if some prostitutes had not been killed last year.

Police have "vowed to prosecute men who have sex with underage girls". Gee that's nice, police vowing to uphold the law. It's their JOB. They should back up their vows with actions.

Guess what this girl who has been returned to foster care is probably doing on the streets of Christchurch tonight. She's getting more than a parental smack. Probably on drugs more like it. Take her cellphone off her and check her phone contacts. Do her for tax and ACC avoidance.

Another girl's mother tells tells Child Youth and Family that her daughter is selling sex on the streets. They don't want to know. She tells the police. They do a swoop, and although it appears this girl was not caught, they did catch others like her.

Surely this mother can give her daughters cellphone number to the cops, the cops can pose as a client and catch her. But then, the girls are not breaking the law. So why is it the responsibility of police to do a swoop?