Judith and Glynis Cousin, Stephen McGrath and Robert Fine examine the recent actions of Orkney Social Work Department as an object lesson in the dangers of dogmatic, over-confident assertion of social work beliefs and power, at the expense of children's needs and the rights of abusers and suspected abusers. The Children Act provides probation officers with greater responsibility to address the balance of interests more fairly.
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According to Roland Summit's Kafkaesque theory of a Child Abuse Accommodation Syndrome, denial of abuse by the child is a sure sign of actual abuse.
