CPS is pure evil-always has been-it should not exist in its present form at all and should not have the power to re-home kids as if they were pets. That is the main reason that I decided to work with learning disabled and retarded adults after graduation-not kids-and took my transferrable skills to the private sector ASAP-I became a workers comp case manager.
But I know some horror stories from that sector, too:
A guy with a central disc herniation who had to buck the system and figure out what was wrong with himself because the doctors all said he was faking it.
When they finally found the problem (he had figured out what was wrong already after two years of just not giving up)--the prolapse retracted when he was prone, and reappeared when he was vertical, with attendant fluctuations in CS fluid pressure, headaches, memory loss, cognitive difficulty, and ridiculous pain--they did the laminectomy.
Then the doctors and Worker's Comp pooh-poohed his claims of still having serious back pain. After nearly a year of fighting that, the docs finally ran a MRI and the machine went nuts. (There was a piece of scalpel blade still in his back.) for one instance. By the time it was all over a guy who had worked all his life and had a six figure job had lost most of what he had, and his health never completely recovered. The winds of change had blown across the oil patch and the job was gone. As a caseworker, you might find yourself challenged to become as knowledgeable about injury medicine as some of the doctors you deal with. Embrace that, and the guys who get hurt out there will think you're a saint.