Cyfs has always been the same. If we listened to the horror stories of the last twenty years, I cannot remember one to their credit.
People's children are removed on the word an angry manipulative spouse, with no real study. Once a label has been put on a parent (mother or father) by these so called professionals, nothing changes it.
The children's legal support, is over and again just another battering ram for cyfs, as are the courts.
I think that the one thing that needs to be known in the public arena is that as there are no checks and ballances on cyfs, as they are not ever held responsible for their mistakes, we need to find a whole new method of protecting children and families from their excesses - what has happened to Parentline?