A former deputy director of children’s services in Hackney has called out the government for targeting poor families and traumatising them further by unnecessarily removing children from their care.
Steve Goodman, made the comments at a Frontline Leadership Event. Goodman told the audience:
“What this government is doing to poor families is atrocious. The food banks, the rubbish private housing, the precarious employment position of people is awful. But that does not mean we should add to that awfulness by taking people’s children away when we don’t need to… People’s lives are worse, that doesn’t mean that we need to compound that”.
You can watch the speech in full, below.
Roger Crawford said:
Totally agree, but it’s not just this government! This goes way back. And it’s just not government – it’s the attitude of social services and individuals within the service, who like to blame government and anyone else other than themselves.
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tummum said:
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Steve Goodman, made the comments at a Frontline Leadership Event. Goodman told the audience:
“What this government is doing to poor families is atrocious. The food banks, the rubbish private housing, the precarious employment position of people is awful. But that does not mean we should add to that awfulness by taking people’s children away when we don’t need to… People’s lives are worse, that doesn’t mean that we need to compound that”.
You can watch the speech in full, below.
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maureenjenner said:
It is the old temptation of kicking someone when they’re down; there are still those who get a perverse pleasure from doing just that. Human nature? Sadly yes…with more willing to indulge in self-rightousness than to pick up the fallen.
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Ian Josephs said:
Social workers reveal reality of adoption scorecards
Following the publication of the government’s first annual adoption scorecards, Community Care asked councils for their feedback.
So you see ? You can’t blame social workers for doing all they can to fill up their adoption scorecards can you??…………………………
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mccourt559 said:
It’s organised crime & social engineering its disgusting it’s also child abuse depriving children of their ‘real’ family a human right if ever there was such a thing of course the fact they will burn in hell seems not to scare them probably cause their soul less!
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Dr. Manhattan. said:
Mr Goodman is one of a very few professionals who have the guts to come out against the sector they worked in.
well done to him.
Who else would like to step in and tell the truth!?
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