Welcome to another week.
Despite a recent court ruling which held that it was illegal to detain children in police cells, arrested children are likely to continue to be held in these cells due to a lack of secure accommodation in the capital city.
Our question then, is just this: what should local authorities who do not have secure accommodation be required to do, if anything, in such cases?
Researching Reform 
POLICE WHO ENFORCE THE LAW SHOULD ALSO BE PUNISHED LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IF THEY BREAK THE LAW ! Same goes for local authorities……..
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Really I do not know answers to this having watched the Labour years when perfectly good mental hospitals were sold off with massive lands on the cheap. The large amount of housing put on them was sold off to middle class rentiers or people wanting second investment homes – with some just wanting nice homes ..Very little social housing occurred in them too in my quarter ..
I even recall my own MP living in one of the 68 Luxury apartment homes created from the ex asylum administration building now housing middle class people… Naturally it was “no longer fit” for use for the community of distressed people though.
Of course not all these distressed kids who coppers are keeping in cells are “mental” but there was plenty of scope on lands of previous hospitals to create community units in the localities where kids could be kept safely and helped …
I know of one such unit in Birmingham which has forensic capacity and keeps disturbed kids there to aid them so their personality disordered lives can be stabilized through relationships with staff .. Yet “under-capacity” was planned and made years ago under different Governments .. All are guilty of ruining capacity to aid less well off people and kids to have decent help and therapies that really do hit the mark ..
I monitored this for years and critiqued it ..We just do not see people as our real wealth to improve though . Our real investment and the one that really counts socially… To the least shall be given more inadequacy and to the enriched shall be given more than they need ..
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