... to feel annoyed when professionals get the blame?

I tried to say that on the Daniel Pelka thread and got fairly short shrift. It is easy to target the people around a situation but parents have responsibility to care for and bring up their children to be happy, safe and responsible young people.. Social workers come into the picture when parents are not carrying out their responsibilities well enough. teachers are there to educate children, doctors are there to help when children are ill or hurt etc etc.

If a child is overweight, roaming about unsupervised, behaves badly, drops litter etc etc this is not the fault of medical practitioners, social workers, teachers!

Agreed!

I agree. This always goes through my mind when these terrible child abuse cases come to the fore. Parents and families blaming Social Workers or schools or hospitals etc. It's always someone else's fault.