same period,a fall from 12.5% of the total in 2007 to 10.5% in 2011. No rush to save children like baby P from physical abuse then ! Where did the huge increase come from you may ask ? Why the easy children to take with little tangible proof needed against parents ,those said to be emotionally abused or even vaguer "at risk of future emotional abuse!Total of children removed for emotional abuse in 2007 was 7100 and in 2011 was 12100 ! An overall increase of over 70% amounting also to an increase as a percentage of the total from 25% to 28.3%. Clearly emotional abuse often decided by highly dubious "experts"(,sometimes without meeting either children or parents !) has become flavour of the month...... Why should things like this happen? Well I will only mention that one of the many flourishing fostering and adoption AGENCIES founded a few years ago by social workers was sold for the tidy sum of 130million ! Nice work if you can get it ! Is it really in the best interests of a child to be ripped away so callously from their parents? From personal experience after false allegations were made against myself, the social worker who visited was AWFUL. Rude, picked at NORMAL home conditions. 'Sink full of dirty dishes' she wrote. I had just cooked dinner!! It wasnt until the school head strongly opposed them that they finally 'closed the case' If it wasnt for the school standing up for me,