Child safety officers leaving job daily

The union said every day they heard of stressed workers, particularly child safety officers, leaving their job.

Workers were struggling to do more than the bare minimum to ensure a child was not in immediate danger in the next 24 hours, with officers wanting to help more but being unable to because of inadequate resourcing and insufficient pay and conditions, the union said.

Staff have also been subjected to an increase in abuse across the workforce, with a number of children known to both…