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Protecting Our Children TV documentary will follow Bristol’s Child Protection Services

Bristol’s child protection services will be featured in a fly-on-the-wall TV documentary this month.

The programme will follow eight social workers and the families they are working with over a 12 month period.

Bristol has around 140 social workers involved in child protection services with 414 children subject to a protection plan.

The three part programme ‘Protecting Our Children’ will be broadcast on BBC Two from Monday 30 January at 9pm

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