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?