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Wednesday, 21 November 2012

How Newspeak invades dealing with terrible issues

This article http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/nov/21/child-risk-sex-exploitation-gang in my view has less clarity than clarity.

The headline says "45 children a day at risk from sexual exploitation by gangs".

Are these in addition to those children who are being exploited?
Are these in addition to those children not being exploited?
Are these in addition to those children not being exploited by gangs?
Are these the same 45 children per day?
Is it 45 different children per day?
Are they exploited one day and then it stops?

"Local authorities, police forces and health professionals are ignoring warning signs displayed by at-risk teenagers, who are too often seen as problematic or complicit in their own abuse,"

"As many as 16,500 children were identified as being at "high risk" of sexual exploitation – displaying three or more warning signs including running away from home, drug or alcohol misuse and criminality."

So in the whole article the only information we are told is "displaying three or more warning signs including running away from home, drug or alcohol misuse and criminality".

So rather than using the article clearly detailing what practitioners are meant to be doing it, how we the public can help, how to spot the signs, what to do when we do see the signs; it justs goes on and on about such children being at risk, how more can be done, without saying what can be done.

This is so weird!!!!!

So The Guardian is clearly not an agent to help reduce this, even though clearly we are all meant to wake up to this problem.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/social-care-network/2012/nov/21/protect-children-effectively-childrens-commission

This article does begin to suggest how children can be protected:

So what do we need to do to protect children? What are the essentials of an effective system?
• Respect what children and young people say – abuse is invariably about the abuse of power within an established relationship. The bias of the system must therefore facilitate and encourage children to share their concerns. This applies especially to vulnerable children who are frequently ignored or stereotyped. Young offenders are particularly vulnerable and their allegations frequently ignored, as recent media examples have shown.
• Make safeguarding everybody's business – we must all be alert to the concerns of children and young people and cannot leave everything to specialist agencies.
• Focus on the child's needs and the family's situation. Family lives are not divided arbitrarily between the agencies and the structures we have created. Agencies must work together to provide safe ways to help children and family members, in ways which also make sense to them.
• Work together and share information – no child died because information was shared.
• Enforce a clear structure for joint working between public agencies within each locality and across local boundaries. Effective management of all crises requires a predetermined set of procedures and organisational relationships. Child protection investigations and management of chronic child maltreatment are no different. It is sadly the case that organisations do not tend to work instinctively in partnership unless there is a clear and mandatory framework which supports this approach and requires co-operation.
• Apply learning from research, formal inquiries and past evidence about practice.
• Create a culture of respect within agencies – respect for parents and children – and also for staff. Ensure practice guidance is clear, coherent, consistent, legal, accessible and comprehensible. It must allow space for judgement and creativity but also provide a sufficiently coherent framework for co-operation between practitioners in the many different agencies involved. A culture of staff bullying by management reduces effectiveness and increases risk for children.
• Recognise this all costs money and needs professionals with time, skills and support.

Saturday, 10 November 2012

BBC & Newsnight sexual abuse issues get worse

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230292/BBC-Director-General-admits-Newsnight-scandal-documentary-gone-humiliating-grilling-live-air-presenter.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2230750/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Only-Lord-McAlpine-knows-horrendous-trial-television-entirely-unregulated-internet-been.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230788/Paedophile-scandal-How-BBC-nailed-wrong-man-A-Child-abuse-scandal-TV-bosses-desperate-atone-humiliation-Savile--Newsnight-investigation-backfired.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9668823/George-Entwistle-admits-Newsnight-Tory-sex-abuse-claims-should-never-have-been-broadcast.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/bbc-staff-may-face-action-as-director-general-george-entwistle-says-he-was-not-aware-of-newsnights-report-wrongly-implicating-lord-mcalpine-in-a-child-abuse-scandal-8303438.html

Friday, 9 November 2012

Trial by media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/nov/09/lord-mcalpine-abuse-allegations-false

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2230292/Guardian-names-Tory-figurehead-centre-sex-abuse-inquiry-claiming-victim-mistaken-identity.html

ITV now getting involved in routing out alleged peadophiles

Yesterday, on ITV, David Cameron, live on air, was handed a list of names that Phillip Schofield had found by spending three minutes on the internet, names of politicians who seemed to be related to these latest peadophile allegations. What a shame. I really felt for Cameron. And unfortunately Cameron, for which I think he can be totally forgiven, said this could become a witch hunt against gay people. He let us know that at least one person on the list was gay, perhaps some or all.

I also think we should not have one massive enquiry into these allegations; each organisation needs to carry out its own review. However I do think we may require an overarching review later if it becomes clear that there are themes and links across the enquiries.

I pray to Christ our Lord to reign this in and direct it properly, if that is His will.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229808/Phillip-Schofield-ambushes-David-Cameron-Tory-paedophile-list-No-10-condemns-trial-Twitter.html

It seems odd that no-one has picked up the fact that Cameron said the people on the list were gay. He didn't just say this could be a witch hunt : he said it could be a witch hunt for gay people.

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

House prices fall since last year (???)..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20203378

But only a few days ago they were the highest they've been in 2 years!!!??? http://howlifeischanging.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/house-prices-highest-since-2010.html

Sunday, 28 October 2012

Gary Glitter arrested

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2224233/Gary-Glitter-arrested-home-suspicion-sexual-offences-connection-Jimmy-Savile-scandal.html

Monday, 22 October 2012

BBC Newnight editor resigns over Jimmy Savile Scandal

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221130/Emails-plunge-BBC-worst-crisis-50-years-Newsnight-boss-steps-damning-evidence-Savile-cover-up.html

The Daily Mail mentions it, but the BBC does not. Nothing is said about it on Breakfast News on the BBC, although it does discuss the Panorama programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20024074

Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Jimmy Savile

Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Public enquiry possible into jimmy Savile allegations

If the allegations are true then it tells us something about humanity in general. In particular it makes us question why people fear informing the police of the allegations. If it is presumed the police were never told, it tells us something about how sexual allegations should first and foremost be told to the police, perhaps?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9611813/David-Cameron-has-not-ruled-out-Jimmy-Savile-inquiry.html

Keeping things hidden seems to still prevail. Newsnight has not given out sufficient detail to explain why it stopped filming the article on Savile last year. For what ever reason, such reasons overcome the need to provide detail.