The latest child welfare items:
- Ninety children taken into care each day, figures show
- National Institute For Health And Care Excellence (NICE) – Interactive charts and resources about Child Abuse, as well as information for the public
- Head of Child Abuse Inquiry, Alexis Jay: ‘If I see poor practice I will nail that’
- Pick Of The Week: “In Britain, We Don’t Seem To Really Like Children.”
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Stark facts that must be faced by all and deal with in every community.
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I started to read the article by Alison Mikalska with my usual scepticism, but actually found it quite thought-provoking. What she doesn’t mention is that many Social workers seem not to like children, also. We all don’t like children sometimes, but most of us love them. And love transcends liking or not liking.
Interesting her saying that part of the problems are the restrictions put on parents. . . . .and also that if we increased the salaries of social workers the situation would be vastly improved. I don’t believe this. Has the standard of nursing improved since nurses now have to work for a degree? I don’t think so. If you go into nursing you should do it as a vocation, out of love for humanity if you like, and the same should apply to social workers. Degrees or academic qualifications don’t really come into it. Most people I speak to about this think the huge salaries (to us) enjoyed by the upper echelons of those in the SS are obscene, particularly when they were overseeing all the abuse in places like Rotherham and Oxford, and turning a blind eye to it often enough – and then keeping their jobs. They certainly don’t like children very much.
I speak as one who, according to the statistics, lives below the poverty line. I manage to have a great life. ‘Poverty’ is relative, and poverty of spirit is just as insidious as material poverty. And here I agree with Alison. Children seem to be so restricted in their outdoor play that they can’t even have a game of football outside their dreary flats, they’re not allowed to do this or do that, not allowed to explore and test their boundaries (often due to ‘health and safety’ concerns). Living in a mobile home on my own plot, I see many ‘park home’ sites (new terminology for mobile homes) saying ‘no pets, no children, over- fifties only’, just as bad to my eyes as the signs in my childhood ‘no blacks, no Irish, no dogs’. And new signs now saying ‘no social’.
If you can’t rent accommodation or purchase your own home, then that is real poverty, made far worse if you have children. Single people can usually get by living in an old bus, and enjoy the experience – many of us did this in the ‘sixties and ‘seventies. Not as easy now as then, but still possible – I know one or two who are doing this and doing OK.
We could do a lot better for our children, and I would suggest that if more social workers really liked them, we, as a nation, would. They could be a part of the solution – as it is, they are a part of the problem.
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Well 90 children per day snatched to feed the £billion fostering and adoption industry;
The really interesting statistic that will never ever be released is how many of these children had parents who were actually convicted of a crime against them?
Precious few in my experience as most of these kids are taken from parents who have never done anything illegal that concerned children;
Money talks however…………… Poor poor kids……….
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When I first read Ian’s contribution, I read it as ‘the £billion festering adoption industry’. Either way, quite so!
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the cries of needing more money pumped into child protection will only increase the problem as the number of kids being taken sky rockets into the stratosphere.
we are still waiting for what is long overdue. a full investigation into the real truth about what goes on in child protection and their shady involvement with the Fostering & Adoption Rackets.
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Totally agree, Dr. Manhattan. And I do apologise to you, I missed your request for the title of my book. It is ‘Rebel Without a Clue – the Jester’s Tale’, published by New Generation Publishing and, I think, still available. It’s not only about my experiences in the Family Courts (I found writing only about that too depressing) but a general overview of my childhood in the fifties and sixties, so may not appeal to everyone. Available in all good (and probably not-so-good) bookshops and on Amazon.
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