Sunday, 5 July 2009

Social Services, A Delusional Belief System

Social workers are still too keen to split up families, says Christopher Booker.
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3 comments:

Tomrat said...

An idea I bandied around the forums some time ago was that social services should become an arm of the police force, specially tailored to dealing with family upset and difficulties but with the powers to remove at risk children.

Combined with locally accountable sheriffs you would have a potent feedback system for dealing with overtly autocratic social workers, plus you would suddenly find a role for all those PCSO's we would need to re-deploy.

i.e. I am against the nuclear solution to social care: several forum members countered that tge best solution was to have no solution at all when it came to social care procedures (i.e. abolish them outright); dealing and seeing the outcomes of such a situation (in my spare time I work as a youth worker dealing with children from some of the most depraved areas of Leeds; you see a lot of things where social service is either inept or just non-functioning with the sheer weight of the problem) just makes me think this isn't possible.

Child abuse in all its forms is an assault on a childs liberty - we should not treat it as a social issue but as the crime it truly is.

5 July 2009 22:19
Roger Thornhill said...

Considering the powers they would need, the SS should be sworn officers and accountable to Police Commissioners.


We are talking about imprisonment, kidnap, restraining orders, search warrants, entering private property when CIP etc.

6 July 2009 21:44
sound money man said...

Tomrat, that was almost a Freudian typo: "most depraved areas of Leeds"?

I live in one of the most depraved areas of Liverpool (no typo) and I still think that alleged *crimes* against children should be investigated by the actual police.

11 July 2009 19:32

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