What are social services thinking?

Me and my best mate are friends with a girl that has 2 cousins that we both know. That bit is important. Cousin number one was on Jeremy Kyle several times. Cousin number two acts like she is so much better than every one else.

Reality is cousin number two is much worse than cousin number one. Cousin number two was living with a lad. They had a daughter. They broke up because they had a fight and she put on facebook that she was in bed with another lad THE SAME NIGHT her and this lad broke up. She sent her daughter to live with her mum and she moved away.

When she was away, she had 2 boys with another lad and they got taken into care. She split with him and moved back up and started going out with a friend of my best mates partner.

So cousin number two and lad are living together. She has another daughter, and she thinks lad is cheating on her (he's not but she goes to lads houses every night drinking and has a cannabis addiction) lad tells her to get help so she pushes daughter down the stairs and her self and tells hospital and police that lad pushed her down (she admitted to our mate) so daughter gets taken into care and social services make her go into a womens refuge and get help.

Yesterday my best mate is in the city Centre and bumps into cousin number two. Drunk (this is at lunchtime) and she tells my best mate that social services have given her daughter back to her. She then asks my best mate for money because she "forgot" to get her daughter milk and food. My best mate said no, and told her that she needed to put her daughter before her drinking, and to ask the daughters father for some money.

My best mate called our friend last night and she said that all cousin number two had to do was attend a few parenting classes, pass one drug test (which her social worker told her the date she was getting it and told her to avoid drugs and drink a few days before) and she got her daughter back.

Also, cousin number two has a new boyfriend who is now buying EVERYTHING for the daughter and the daughters dad isnt even allowed to see her. When its his days, she calls him and says shes ill. And social services wont do anything to force her to let him see her, even though he has a court order that gives him visitation. Even the courts arent bothered.

Our mate called social services to expressive concern last week and got told that the case was closed, and they didn't have the resources to re open it. Is that how vulnerable children are being protected? And at the same time, parents who have done nothing wrong are having their kids taken from them. Its a flawed system that needs to be overhauled.