For 25 years I have practiced law in the area of family law. There is no doubt that the most challenging is dependency law especially when families are confronted with government social workers.
In my opinion, the majority of the social workers are incompetent. They lie. They are secretive. And they are NOT there to help. I salute the half dozen or so that have truly helped families. They are a rarity.
Learning to speak social-eze is an important part of the process. Each state agency has their own set of ABC an acronyms.
For instance Tennessee they have a CFTM which stands for child and family team meeting. I have stated out loud there is no “team” about it. They might as well call it the Agency Demand Meeting.
Anyway parents must learn the lingo. Here are a few links and I will add more as families share them with me.
Tennessee
https://www.tn.gov/dcs/program-areas/qi/dcs-acronyms.html
Connecticut
https://portal.ct.gov/DCF/1-DCF/DCF-Acronyms
Florida
http://floridafapa.org/how-to-speak-child-welfare-aka-acronyms-gone-wild/
Radical Tennessee - Radically Accountable and Radically Free 
I worked for social services in the assistance programs side for a decade and had no idea how corrupt the children services side was. As a whole, the agency is like most government agencies and they do what they need to for the federal funds and it’s a joke that they have any requirements at all because they are going to say they are meeting them no matter what they are actually doing. I used to have supervisors telling everyone what to fill in their time study with to make sure they met the standards (on paper) & the wasteful spending to justify the amount they needed for the next fiscal year budget. But lying about parents and their kids while turning a blind eye to the sane child being harmed while in their care, they belong in prison for that. Very sad and disgusting to learn how prevalent this is and nothing is done because those with any power that take a stand may meet an early demise.