Just saw this reported on the BBC news:
More children should be in care, say MPs
More children at risk should be put into care, says a committee of MPs examining child protection in England.
They warned that too often the benefit of the doubt was given to neglectful parents who then failed to improve.
The MPs also said there was insufficient support for older children, particularly when vulnerable youngsters left the care system.
The government said any abuse was "unacceptable", adding it was "mid-way through a major reform" of the system.
The report, from the House of Commons Education Select Committee, warned that too many children were being left in circumstances of "long-term, chronic neglect".
MPs suggested that too often their parents were given multiple chances to change - at the cost of their children who were left without the support and safety they needed.
Rather than social services being too quick to act in removing a neglected child from a family, the report found that in practice there was too much of a presumption to leave the child with the family.
These parents, who might have their own problems with alcohol or drug abuse, were too often "monitored" over many years by support agencies, rather than facing direct interventions.
Full article is here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20226345
Now, what is this slap bang in the middle of? All of the allegations about paedophilia and so forth, which show, I think quite clearly, that there has been systematic corruption involved. Yet here we have the Commons, who have quite obviously been involved in it, recommending more children be taken into care, and the BBC, who have absolutely obviously been involved in it, uncritically reporting that this would be a good idea.
I do smell a rat with this one, somehow.
