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
