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My involvement as a

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social worker
wasn't to reduce the concerns,

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was to reduce the concerns
already held for children,

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so that they weren't
exposed to significant harm.

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And the important distinction
I had to make here was that

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it's not the role of a social worker
to make children safe.

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It's to protect them
from significant harm.

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Now, making children safe,
I think, is an unattainable goal,

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and one that if I'd perpetually
kind of aspired to,

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would have left me feeling
very dissatisfied.

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Reducing harm
was the goal, not eradicating it.