Britain's stolen children

[rowley2]

Read THIS. It is a horror story. A terrible indictment of an over mighty state abusing it's power.

[mackembabe]

Jesus wept.
That is horrific.

[LeicesterMackem]

Originally Posted by rowley2

Read THIS. It is a horror story. A terrible indictment of an over mighty state abusing it's power.

Or it could be yet another over-dramatised, exaggerated, sensationalist heap of half-truths and speculation from Christopher Booker. It's not as if he doesn't have form.

[robcal]

Terrible article imo. This pretty much sums it up for me:

Not surprisingly, these bizarre practices are so geared to the interests of a corrupted system that, in the latest year for which we have figures (2008), of 7,340 applications for care orders made by social workers, only 20 were refused.

So, at the top of the article they discuss how awful the system is because too many children aren't taken into care, yet complain later that too many are. As for the children being taken for no good reason part:

Still largely hidden from view, however, is that other scandal, in its way just as disturbing, in which the failure of our child protection system is the very opposite: the seizure of thousands of children a year from loving homes, for no good reason.

Why are these children coming to the attention of the social services? Is it medical records showing signs of abuse? Is it teachers or health professionals voicing concerns over the welfare of the children?

There's definitely and agenda to the whole article, perhaps this sheds some light on it:

Another purpose of the system is to ensure that as many children as possible are adopted (at a cost of £36,000 per placement), in accordance with Tony Blair's personal commitment a decade ago that the target for adoptions in Britain should rise by 40 per cent. Councils are still receiving millions of pounds a year for meeting adoption targets.

^^What a load of bollocks.^^


There is a massive problem with child protection / safeguarding. It's got nothing to do with too many children being taken from homes, it's all to do with the number of abused children who pass through the system without receiving support.