The Education Committee’s enquiry into child protection continues, with the next session, which is open to the public, on Wednesday 11th January and will look at the topics we mentioned earlier with MPs asking questions to the panel:
- Phillip Noyes, Director of Strategy and Development, NSPCC
- Kate Wallace, Deputy Director Policy & Research, Barnardo’s
- Enver Solomon, Policy Director, The Children’s Society
The session starts at 9.30am and will look at:
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The impact of neglect and the long-term consequences of a delay in intervention where there is evidence of neglect;
- Older young people (especially those aged 15 to 19) and child protection;
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Thresholds for intervention, for taking children into care and for adoption.
If you’re interested in this area and your Wednesday’s looking a bit peaky, why not come along?
Instead of consulting 3 charities the MPs would be better occupied questioning parents who claim to have lost their children to adoption unjustly.
“Risk of emotional abuse”,”previous suffering from domestic violence” “failure to engage with professionals” “cluttered house” “mild learning difficulties”
Similarly they could consult some of the children “in care” whose mobile phones have been confiscated and who are only allowed visits from parents that are strictly censored, or who unlike murderers and rapists in prison are allowed no visits,no phone calls and no access to internet etc etc
Have you ever met or spoken to someone brought up “in care” who had a good word to say about social workers??
Agreed with the above, Ian. They seem to place great weight on these events which don’t get much publicity, which are held as a one off at one fixed point point in the country that many wont be able to attend during the week and not only is the publicity for the event stifled, the notice is limited too. Modern democracy. I bet the adoption agencies knew about it long ago and those reps will be paid to attend rather than having to pay.
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