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Council pays for taking disabled woman away
A COURT ordered Somerset County Council yesterday to pay the six-figure legal costs of a disabled teenager removed from her family’s care without proper investigation of her circumstances.
Council social workers prevented the woman, now 20, from returning home because of bruises on her chest.
Despite her mother’s warning, social workers decided that bruises on the severely disabled woman were signs of “significant injury from someone or something other than herself.”
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