Child Protection Duties

Ruth is an experienced child protection social worker whose main legal duties are to investigate under Section 47 of the Children Act 1989, alongside officers from the local police child protection team, allegations of significant harm about children. When the concerns are justified she convenes a child protection conference which formulates a protection plan for the child considered to be at risk. She is considered a safe pair of hands but some wondered whether she was too quick to intervene in the life of Darryl and whether outcomes for that child would have been better if another form of intervention had been taken, leaving him at home with support in his disabled father's care. In another case she intervened to remove two young children from parental care following harm to the young baby but the older girl was becoming increasingly distressed when separated from her family. What would you have done?