Welcome to another week.
As the new year begins, our question is just this: what changes in child protection would you like to see in 2020?
Question It!
06 Monday Jan 2020
Posted in Question It, Researching Reform
Researching Reform
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More support for families to prevent removal
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Parents should be told that they can get a advocate from begging of the presses of child protection and the kids can also have one as well u can can get child advocates that help support the child
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Social workers never tell parents what help they can get. they prefer to keep them in the dark so it makes their job of destroying the family easier.
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1:- No children should taken into state care by social workers via family courts for risk of future harm .(No punishment without crime)
2:-Family courts required to employ criminal court standards of proof. (innocent unless guilty beyond reasonable doubt) before branding parents as child abusers
3:- Free speech restored to parents allowing them the democratic right to protest publicly in the media and elsewhere revealing names when their children are taken;
4:-Free speech must be restored to children in care and parents at contact allowing discussion of anything they choose in any language they like.
5:- Social workers should be there to support families and never allowed to appear against them in court.Police should deal with all child cases of cruelty or neglect
6:- Forced-adoption (opposed by parents in court) should be banned and made a crime against humanity.
7:-All parents appearing in family courts should be encouraged to speak in person and to call their children ,relatives,friends ,and other professionals as witnesses.
8:-Parents who have not been convicted of any serious criminal offence against children should never be forbidden contact with their children by phone,text,or email.
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A radical approach is desperately needed.
I would throw out the instruction manual of most if not all current practices & rethink it.
I would close the family court. I don’t believe its fit for purpose.
Criminal courts would still take the serious cases, as they currently do.
Forced adoption would cease. I don’t believe anyone has that right.
Social workers would take on a different supporting role.
Child protection would be more family oriented.
Children would be seen & heard.
I would start to educate parents about how to look after their offspring for those who need it.
I would offer support to those who need it.
Family members should be encouraged & supported to look after children when its impossible for the parents.
Foster carers should only be a last resort. If a child is in foster care, contact with family should be encouraged.
Children currently in care should be returned to the family or family members as quickly as possible.
There is no role for court Psychiatrists/ psychologists who should not be assessing family members who put themselves forward to care for their kin. Weirdly, stranger foster carers & guardians do not have to go through the same processes as family members, yet look after another’s child/children, despite often having no previous experience. More weirdly, even when family members are assessed & deemed not to have a personality disorder or any other mental health issue they are still not able to look after their kin.
Currently there seems to be a process of going through the motions but the family rarely keep their children.
There are a multitude of issues that results in a child placed in cate. Poverty, mental health, substance abuse, etc. Each needs to be addressed in a more holistic way. Funding should be available to help.
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Ian & Dana have pretty much stated what i would also like to see.
Clearly the family courts are the main problem by allowing Social workers to present a pack of lies with no evidence that goes unchallenged by (out to lunch) judges.
Ofsted are also to blame for the Forced adoption culture driven by govt targets. Ofsted puts pressure on LAs to do better on the number of children placed for adoption.
the system is totally dysfunctional and something has to give but when you have Govt officials who couldnt care less its going to be a long miserable road to change.
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