3 SEPTEMBER 1994, Page 30

LETTERS On social workers

Sir: I read Alasdair Palmer's piece with a familiar sense of horror (`Get the baby, go and get the baby, 6 August). I don't think most people in England realise that politi- cally motivated people in the Social Ser- vices have been taking children into so- called care as a way of destabilising tradi- tional family life.

In the 12 years I ran Chiswick Family Rescue I often became involved in getting children out of care and foster homes and returning them to their innocent parents. In one case an ex-mother had been rude to her social worker. That night the social worker arrived with the police, snatched the four children and then refused to tell the mother where they were. Fortunately, she had me behind her and we found them in a children's home outside Bristol.

When I tried to protest publicly at the hi- jacking and terrorising that went on by some social workers I was told that I was paranoid. Well, I wonder how long it will be before the English public becomes determined to root out those people who wish to destroy liberty and democracy in England?

Erin Pizzey

Formerly of Chiswick Family Rescue