Haringey Council needs to work better with voluntary sector partners when providing support to refugees to avoid “storing up problems for the future”.
A scrutiny review on support to children from refugee families found Haringey’s approach was “harsh” compared to other boroughs and called on the council to look at other ways of providing funding and support.
One might almost say, they provided a 'hostile environment'. Well, if you listened to the bleating of these Open Borders advocates, that is.
In the past year, the council assisted 254 children and 155 families in these circumstances, with current spending totalling £635,000 a year.
That's harsh, yes, but only on the poor bloody taxpayer!
But the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel heard evidence that the assessment process used to determine whether support could be provided tended to focus on the finances and status of parents rather than the welfare of children.
As well it should. If the
parents can support them, why should anyone else?
Mark Blake, Labour councillor for Muswell Hill and member of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel, said the review showed Haringey was “not working as cohesively with voluntary partners” as other boroughs.
He said: “In comparison to Islington, I felt we were losing out by not working as effectively and in as collaborative [a] fashion as I would have expected.
“Personally, I felt taking an approach that could be more harsh could be counterproductive – as a public authority, we could be storing up issues for us further down the line.”
Sounds almost like a threat. Perhaps we'd simply be better not taking in any more of them?
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Sounds like the 'voluntary partners', are just fake charities looking for some extra cash and moaning that this council aren't giving up the readies as easily as some others do
"voluntary partners”
Otherwise known as charities who are extremely good at spending other people's money, especially tax-payers' money.
And just haw many of the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Panel are helping and housing some of those 18 to 25 year old 'children' in their own homes?
The real problem is that the councils aren't being hard enough on these economic migrants in the first place but then with so many loony lefties that love spending other peoples money, but never their own, on the councils that is not surprising.
ivan
"Sounds like the 'voluntary partners', are just fake charities looking for some extra cash..."
It does indeed!
"The real problem is that the councils aren't being hard enough on these economic migrants in the first place..."
But put your bins out a day too early & they'll pounce with lightning speed!
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