The stories being circulated this week:
- Child removals mark a return to Victorian values
- Lord Janner dies
- Victims wish to pursue claim after Lord Janner’s death
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The Buzz
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
Posted in Researching Reform, The Buzz
Foster Care Associates; National Fostering Agency, The Foster Care Agency; Acorn Care and Education, Fostering Solutions, Pathway Care Fostering and Heath Farm Fostering; Partnerships in Children’s Services, Orange Grove, ISP, Fosterplus and Clifford House; Swiis Foster Care; Capstone Foster Care; Compass Fostering, The Fostering Partnership, Eden Foster Care and Seafields Fostering; Caretech
The seven agencies above all make millions of £s profit every year and all pay the owners (mostly ex social workers) millions of £s in salaries and profits.
Add to that all the special schools charging around £4000 /week per child (more than 3 times what it cost to send Prince Harry to Eton) and you will understand the resistance to reform !
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Reblogged this on World4Justice : NOW! Lobby Forum..
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The UK is the ONLY place in the world where large numbers of parents flee the country every year to avoid having their babies and young children taken from them by the State for forced adoption. Social workers,behaving like police , take babies at birth from mothers ,not for anything they have done but for something someone with a “Crystal Ball” thinks they might do in the future !
Yes most of the mothers who phone me complain because social workers acting as though they were police but with no authority to do so, snatch babies at birth for “risk of emotional abuse” .Everyone can have a different opinion about such so called risks but both before and after these babies are snatched family court judges will nearly always rubberstamp the snatching and later order forced adoption of these little mites by strangers ! That way social workers can blame judges for the cruelty these actions entail.
Hard to believe this happens in UK? Well every single day, dozens of babies are taken at birth following a prediction of future risk by social workers and their “experts” .In fact not dozens but hundreds of babies are taken every year from their law abiding mothers for mere future risk, and handed over for expensive fostercare or forced adoption in the UK!
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Historically we know children in care or in government institutions across the country and abroad have been abused by those tasked with protecting them. The sheer volume of children abused beggars belief. Instead of looking to ways to keep a child within their own families, parents or extended families, the government continues on the well worn path of removing the child from their families ignoring the fact these children have a 1 in 4 chance of being abused by their so called protectors!
When they leave care, either by running away, government statistics admit 10,000 children a year go missing or ageing out, their foster carers no longer want them in their homes as they don’t get paid to keep them, upwards from £400 a week per child! A great income when most have two children! Statistically they have dire outcomes ending up existing, not living, on the streets, homeless, jobless, living hand to mouth, as their education is poor. Prison or prostitution! Stigmatised from the moment they are taken into care. Often times they believe they are not wanted by their families due to subtle and not so subtle coaching from foster carers and social workers. No one wants the “disruption” of keeping the kids in touch with their families! They are dismissive of what the Children’s Act or Human Rights Act state should happen.
The current system is clearly not working! Everyone says so! Those within and outside the system, the service users. The Ofsted reports shows looked after children are not being looked after! Social workers have too much work and are stressed but they claim that doesn’t impact on their decision making. Apparently a lack of training doesn’t either! But the outcomes for children in care are not getting any better despite how much money is thrown at “looking after” them.
So why doesn’t the government look toward families to prevent their kin going into care? Why isn’t the availiable government funding going to help support families instead of supporting the system? Well, I think that is the crux of the matter. Follow the money as they say! All those in the care system get a rake off, 40% return in taxes too but the kids ultimately don’t benefit! The money must stop going to the wrong people.
Reforms are talked about infinitum. Platitudes for their failures. Promises for a better system in the future but they never include the family! Something is very wrong with a family system that doesn’t include the families! The governments past & current reforms really do throw the baby out with the bath water!
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Excellent article from the Guardian where eminently qualified people speak about the removal of children from their families.
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