The behaviour of our 'child protection' system is a growing international scandal
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Among those rather better informed, and far less complacent, about what our social workers and courts get up to than Mr Cameron are a growing number of shocked foreign observers. The government of Slovakia, appalled at the number of children seized from Slovak parents in Britain for what it calls "no sound reason", is threatening to take Britain to the European Court of Human Rights for what it believes is systematic violation of the rights of both children and parents.
When I was in India recently, a remarkable press conference took place in Delhi, attended by official representatives of five other Asian countries, at which senior legal figures, including the former chief justices of the Delhi and Punjab high courts, launched a petition calling on the Indian government to protest at the inhuman way so many Indian children are being seized in Britain and other Western countries. Earlier this year, widespread publicity was given to the Indian government's intervention in the case of two Indian children seized by the Norwegian authorities, which resulted eventually in the children's return to India.
