Telegraph article on RIP

[Ian Batten]

On 06 Jun 08, at 1436, Ian Mason wrote:

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> On 6 Jun 2008, at 13:54, David Hansen wrote:
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>> Did council officials ever stalk families and make detailed notes on
>> children (notes which are probably illegal under all sorts of "child
>> protection" laws and would probably land someone outside the tent in
>> prison)? I doubt it.
>
> Oh lordy, yes! Case workers in council social services have indulged  
> in all sorts of abuse of office, process, power etc. etc. over the  
> years. I'll name the 'satanic' abuse allegations* of a few years  
> back as just one of a long list of misdeeds.

I was going to use that as a (counter) example, because I was re- 
reading the Broxtowe JET report only last week.  But there, of course,  
there are additional powers and often the police are involved.  But  
pre-RIPA, we had no idea how often those powers were used.

ian