In short
Trying to keep families together at all costs where children are not safe should not be priority number one according to senior Labour MP Barry Sheerman. Top priority should be the safety of the children says the current chair of the Child and Family Select Committee. Mr. Sheerman says: “There is a great fashion in the United Kingdom, at all costs to keep the child with the natural family.” He said this in reaction to a recent conviction of two men for causing the death of a 17-month-old baby boy. The family was visited 60 times over eight months by social workers, police and health professionals.
What does René thinks about this
After having read this article a lot of question arose in my mind. The most important facts where you get no information about in this article is whether there are more cases like this, in this article you only get two cases like this which occurred during the last eight years. Aren’t there more figures and numbers which can show the results of the current system in the UK? I hope the senior MP didn’t conclude this message after only one case, there must be more, otherwise I think that one case can not represent the whole system in the UK.
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7723933.stm
4 comments:
Hey René,
Nice article; very interesting. I think that the questions that crossed your mind are very good and to the point. It is a shame that cases like this need to happen before the government lay their eyes on the situation.
Well done on your blog!
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Bao-Nhi
Hello again,
your questions are justified. I do think that taking the child out of his natural family is always the solution because that is traumatic for the child as well. It is hard to draw a line in these kind of situations. Hopefully, this will get easier.
Bye, Sanne
hey you!
I think your article relates to my article about Baby P the 17-month-old baby, very horrible and sad story! I must agree with Sanne, and i think that the case is not to solve because everyone has a different opinion about how a child is save. however I do think that child abusers should be longer in jail than they do now.
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benthe
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