Of all those issues that our major parties never address, few are more disturbing than the criminally dysfunctional state of our “child protection” system, which this year ripped more families apart than ever before, and far too many for no good reason. Only on those rare occasions when it breaks surface, as in Rotherham, do we glimpse something of how this system has become one of the most terrifying scandals in Britain today. At least we can see some hope in the continuing efforts of our most senior family judge, Lord Justice Munby, to prod the system over which he presides back towards some semblance of humanity and common sense.