Unbelievable?

Two children whose mother is a heroin addict are being looked after by her parents - their grandparents. Social Services are involved, though it's not clear whether the children have actually been taken into care or not. The grandparents wish to continue to look after them, and the mother - who is described as a "recovering" addict, wishes for that too. Social Services have apparently decided that the grandparents are not suitable to look after the children by virtue of their age (he is 59 and she is 46) and health (no details) and have placed the children for adoption with a male homosexual couple. Those are the bald facts. Legislation places on Social Services the duty of acting in the best interest of the children. It would be interesting to know how they reached what on the face of it appears a strange decision. Unfortunately, because matters like these are shrouded in secrecy, we probably will never know.