The statistics on child abuse in the UK are truly horrifying, at least one child dies every week as a result of an adults cruelty, and thousands more endure abuse and neglect at the hands of their carers. Yet the known facts reveal only a fraction of the problem. This is because most cases of abuse go unreported, leaving children to suffer the pain and misery of abuse in silence. Over a quater of all …showed first 75 words of 1662 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1662 total…part of our daily experience we are always in fear of physical violence". He also said: "we take many phone calls from such parents everyday in which they try to intimidate us with violent threats, some even saying they are in gangs". These violent threats are appalling, yet its not just social workers who have these threats nursing staff, along with doctors suffer the same kind of abuse when trying to intervene in child protection.