The news stories that should be right on your radar:
- Association of Directors of Children’s Services calls for review of local authority child protection obligations
- Durham chief constable on child abuse images online
- Indian 12-year-old to get an international prize for spreading education
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Location Authorities should be concerned with the welfare of all children but this is not the case. Poverty has gone up. Children taken into care has gone up. The correlation between the two has already been proven but Local Authorities pay foster carers £400 plus per week to look after children taken into the care system which has proven to be detrimental to the majority with low levels of any kind of success.
If it’s all about the children it’s missed the mark.
If around 10% (& rising) of children are in the care system but have such poor outcomes despite the level of money thrown not at them but at others within the system, wouldn’t it be better to keep the children within their own homes and use that money on helping families.
It has been proven, in the small pockets where this has been trialed, that it was a success and has brought about better outcomes for children who would have normally been taken into care.
Those children in poverty would be helped because there would be money left over.
So why is this not happening? Is it because it’s not all about saving the child but saving the child industry that feeds off the child?
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