Welcome to another week.
And the onset of our drizzly Winter.
An article published in The Nordic Page over the weekend suggests that private investment companies are increasingly investing in child welfare organisations because they may be more profitable than the oil industry.
Anti privatisation organisations are worried that this trend will lead to services eroding as investors look to make a quick return rather than improving and developing those services.
The trend is something international and UK Family Court campaigners have observed in England and Wales. A French documentary in 2016 suggested that the UK child protection system was increasingly welcoming in private sector companies often listed in the stock exchange to oversee child welfare services inside the sector. Austerity measures, which have crippled the child protection system have made it ripe ground for companies looking to profit from the impact of the budget cuts.
Our question this week then, is just this: do you think there is a trend?
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Child trafficking was always extra profitable .The fostering and adoption agencies make millions and probably profits are on the increase though I have no proof yet. of any substantial increases as more and more such companies are set up the competition between them increases also.
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we are hearing more and more about private investments into child protection.
again this is where the Govt is failing to protect the public.
child protection should never be about profits or stock markets. its obvious corruption will fester and go unchecked.
we have seen the disgraceful corrupt results of Local authorities dealing with child protection once financial incentives were introduced.
money always breeds greed and corruption. its been that way for thousands of years.
So how do we stop child protection for profit. thats the big ?
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The trend of child removals and of forced adoptions has been rising, Natasha: https://www.change.org/p/eu-parliament-abolish-adoptions-without-parental-consent/u/16651694 – as official stats show since 1994 and 2007.
Whether ‘corporatisation’ and ‘privatisation’ facilitate these trends is secondary in my view.
What comes first: demand, supply or the money to make the supply happen???
The question is WHO makes the money available. When it’s private companies rather than Government, accountability will be even more difficult than already now…
With sighs as always,
Sabine
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Reblogged this on Musings of a Penpusher and commented:
This is a very disturbing; that child welfare organisations should be considered for inclusion in any money-making-business portfolio.
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This is very disturbing; that child welfare organisations should be considered for inclusion in any money-making-business portfolio.
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