Isn't This A Bit Like...

...killing your parents then complaining you're an orphan?

Two residential homes for troubled children in Gloucestershire have been closed after staff were reduced to locking themselves in an office for their own safety and police said that the situation at one home was "out of control and dangerous".

Animals.

"All the young people living at the home told the inspector they felt scared and did not feel safe," said the Ofsted report for home A which was littered with shards of glass and graffiti when the inspectors came to carry out an interim inspection.

Err....

The Ofsted inspector, who had criticised the lack of a homely, family atmosphere, added: "The staff lack the de-escalation skills to manage incidents safely.

"For example, highly dangerous behaviours by young people, including smashing most of the windows at the home, climbing onto the roof and using roof tiles as missiles, physically assaulting staff, causing extensive damage to the home and subjecting another young person to bullying, were not managed by staff and resulted in police intervention."

Yes, well, calling the police is a natural response to this sort of behaviour. What else are the staff to do, since their hands are tied?

Some say the disruption from neighbouring Marlowe properties has turned their dreams of living in the country into a nightmare.

"I'm 68 and my husband's 72 and at our age we shouldn't have to put up with this kind of thing in our own home," said one.

"They call us NIMBYs and ask what we want them to do with these children, we don't know.

"But I don't want to be sitting in my house on a dark night listening to it all kicking off and worrying what would happen if they decided to come over here and do the same. They could easily say 'let's go down the road' and what would we do then. People on a sink estate would not have to put up with this."

My feelings of sympathy are tempered slightly, by the evident fact this is a little colony of SJWs...

Another said she had seen a member of staff being beaten up, a female carer dragged along the road by her hair and what she describes as a full blown riot when 11 police cars and ambulances turned up. She says she has even witnessed armed police but blames the company rather than the children.

Wha..?

"The staff don't seem to set boundaries or tackle them before it escalates. They tell us they can't intervene but surely they are trained in restraint techniques.

"I was told the staff aren't allowed to call the police because they don't want to criminalise the children, but that means they don't know the boundaries. What will happen when they go out into society? I feel sorry for the children. This is not therapeutic care, it's containment. It's heartbreaking."

Good grief, these people are deranged, and their namby-pamby attitudes have lead precisely to this situation!