Traffic: Documentary Uncovers The Chilling Truth About The Child Protection System In The UK

Social Services and child protection agencies are there to protect our children and ensure that they have the adequate and loving care they need—or so we thought.

Over the past few years, documentaries have exposed some of the most shocking and concerning issues within society. In fact, documentaries such as Blackfish, Making a Murderer and COWSPIRACY: The Sustainability Secret have gone on to become some of the most watched and talked about things on Netflix.

However, despite the important message that some of these documentaries carry, not all of them are as widely know. Traffic, is a documentary that uncovers the chilling truth about the inner workings of the child protection system. Created by Pete Middleton Pictures, Traffic exposes that social workers, judges, lawyers and guardians of the court all work together to secure the removal of children from their families and traffic them around the UK. Why is this happening? Money. Thousands and thousands of pounds, in fact.

“If you don’t meet your target, you are also docked across the board in your entire grant. So, the incentive to find kids for adoption is overwhelming,” says one of the interviewees in the video.

Featured below is a 7.5 minute extract of the documentary. As you can see by watching the video, the documentary features interviews with MPs, officials within the child protection system and victims of this terrible practice.

Since the documentary’s release in 2014, Pete Middleton Picture created a second documentary, titled Traffic 2: Inside Child Protection, about the pressing subject and is scheduled to be released on the 20th April 2016.

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