Saturday 8 September 2012

Another Review That Tells Us What We’d Already Predicted…

…and unlike Anna, I’m not so inclined to give the state a pass:
The report into the death of a young Bristol boy who died after being given methadone by his drug-addicted parents says there was a lack of co-operation between the various agencies dealing with his family.
I’m shocked, shocked to the very core I tell you! This is so unprecedented
The report said there was a lack of co-operation from Jayden’s parents with all involved in dealing with them. This included drug agencies, midwifery, housing, health visitors, social workers, with regular failure to keep appointments or be home when visits were being made.
These are the ‘vital State support services’, remember, that the left-wing press demands we shell out more and more in tax for…
The report says: “What was lacking was the authoritative challenge to this lack of co-operation, there was a lack of enforcement of consequences. There was a lack of challenge by practitioners across the range of agencies.
“The only way that his death would definitely have been prevented was if he had been placed away from his parents. The opportunity to do this was lost due to the failure to follow through on the initiation of care proceedings.
“However, a better-planned and authoritative approach to the family may also have prevented his death.”
It may indeed, but then, why should we rely on it anyway, when removing the child from the care of admitted drug addicts would have been the right thing to do?

After all, it seems to be easy to do for some cases where there's no real injury
It was revealed today that Jayden suffered two head injuries – one at seven weeks and one at 11 weeks – and parents gave the same explanation. The report says that this should have raised concerns that the injuries were not accidental. He also sustained injuries to his face at 21 and 23 months old and again the same explanations were given when he was seen by medical professionals.
If only they had been these medical personnel, eh?

But how many more of these are we going to have until someone gets a grip, and decides that no more resources will be swallowed up by these useless, lazy, incompetent State employees until they can get their act together?

11 comments:

Vetnurse said...

It is a nice little club of egos no one for a long time will make a move they are to scared to step on toes. So long as they put reports out to look like they are doing something, that is what counts.

Farenheit211 said...

It always amazes me that the social services can expend time and effort in preventing those who are the wrong colour, or wrong bodyshape or wrong political views or wrong religion from adopting, but not be effective when a child is being abused by their junkie parents.

It is now time to have a serious purge of social services departments.

They are NOT value for jmoney.

Anonymous said...

Jayden. I hate that name.
You can almost see that kids life going off the rails as soon as its chosen.

Farenheit211 said...

Anon, You are right about the name Jayden. It screams 'parents who sit in front of the tv all the time watching too much shit'.

It is sadly one of those names that are going to be seen more often in prison roll calls.

Anonymous said...

If the child had been respectably middle-class he would have been taken into care and sold for adoption before his parents could have shouted "social-worker parasites"

Anonymous said...

And you can bet if they had taken the children into care there would be a lot of people catsigating social services for doing it.

It is unrealistic, given the wasteland of dysfunctional humanity out there to guarantee nothing bad will ever happen. If you think they are lazy, lets get rid of health visitors, social services, police and all the others you decry. Won't be an increase in deaths and tragedies....will there?

Must be great to be an armchair critic....let's all do it.

Anonymous said...

See how i got 'catsigating' wrong.......must be lazy and incompetent. Certainly not tired, stressed, slaving away for an ungrateful public. Can you make a living off slating everyone else on the internet...i'd like that job.

JuliaM said...

"So long as they put reports out to look like they are doing something, that is what counts."

Indeed!

"It is now time to have a serious purge of social services departments."

It's long past time, actually. One of the few things Labour did correctly was give Sharon Shoesmith the push. Unfortunately, they stopped with her.

"And you can bet if they had taken the children into care there would be a lot of people catsigating social services for doing it."

What? You think many people reading this blog - hell, the average person in the street! - would be castigating the SS for removing a vulnerable child from a pair of druggies? What are you on?

What could make you think this?

" Certainly not tired, stressed, slaving away for an ungrateful public."

Ah. The penny drops, perhaps..?

Farenheit211 said...

anon and JuliaM said:


" Certainly not tired, stressed, slaving away for an ungrateful public."

Ah. The penny drops, perhaps..?

Agreed there Julia, possibly a case of "a rent seeker rants".

Anonymous said...

It is a sign of just how pissed off I am that I am not even slightly interested in saving the lives of these failed evolutionary experiments.

"Lessee - let's breed a retard with another retard and see what happens"

Some people call this eugenics, and by extension, Nazism.

But I can't see Frankel being put out to stud the donkeys at Margate anytime soon.

And as I'm in an equine theme here, Social Services are as useful as mule semen and quite a bit slimier.



Farenheit211 said...

Anon said:"And as I'm in an equine theme here, Social Services are as useful as mule semen and quite a bit slimier."

Many of the soc services people I've come across ain't even as useful as that.