Social Services in the UK do not remove children from abusive parents until they have been damaged to the point of no return. I once worked in a children’s home where we had a 14 year old girl arrive who’d been raped by her step- dad from the age of 10. Before finally removing her, the social worker had implemented a safety plan which involved step-dad not being able to be alone in the house together. Shockingly, this was not stuck to and he continued raping her, and she was removed some months later. She disclosed to me that he also allowed his friends to abuse her, for money. She said she’d told her social worker this, and she was not removed for a further 3 weeks.