a useful read 📚

https://doi.org/10.12795/arauccaria.2019.142.22

the meaning of the child has never been more important, no?

the absurdity of the current arrangements is that the trade-offs being made for non-disclosure are rewarded in ways similarly compensated as those by the grooming gangs …
….it’s a systemic problem not only of the insidious nature and damage caused by long run invalidation and the obliteration of the child’s identity but also one of collusion in achieving this as a desired outcome …
…. I am referring to the insider knowledge of sex abuse in-between children and between children and their carers; the forgotten boys is but one project set up for and run by survivors of the English borstal system and out of the shadows another for women survivors …
… the specificalities of the aftermath of the Climbe Inquiry requires attention; the obviously nonobvious issues played by an embedddd and deliberate use of humility, manipulation and cajole by foster carers wasnt given sufficient weight in the wash-up and despite being a prominent part the statutory reviewing findings and subsequently largely ignored …
… the specificalities of the deliberate risk escalation tactics by commercial providers setting up children to ‘act-out’ in anticipation of and using a statutory review to make the case for increased funding; ignored ….
… the specificalities of the insider trade-offs between providers knowingly high-jacking secure reviews as if in a secret bidding war for the ownership to the rights of a child’s care; ignored….
… the absurdity of and deliberate use of the perverse commercial incentives within the English arrangements forming the actual motivation and basis for the MacAlister Review endorsed by Government…
…. it’s a proper shit show and ‘we’ and I mean the ‘royal we’ know it ….
… it’s a shame and blame based system and ‘we’ have again’ simply reinforced this; why? ….
… the coverage of which is provided by Camilla Cavendish in the FT; the feature article saving hundreds of thousands of pounds in avoiding the otherwise requirements for Government to make an Initial Public Offering ie ‘we’ are selling the rights to care for children as public procurement lots …
… I have reviewed the contracting and procurement of Children’s Services repeatedly over the years and save for excception where s75 NHS Agreements have been made the arrangements are poorly constructed; ‘we’ are using highly prescriptive public procurement processes in perhaps the least definable services areas and it simply doesn’t work….
… the choices faced by adult survivors are being reduced to, and damningly so, about what they get out of any disclosure being made; the failings of the Yew Tree Inquiry marred by such trade-offs which for some of the lucky survivors included a guarantee of a PhD level education and subsequent work opportunities with world travel; some survivors are amongst the very best within the NHS and LocGov.some perps are also placed within the NHS and LocGov for ‘safe monitoring’ ….
… it’s maybe time for a, MeToo, type disclosure as was facilitated by the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse (CICA) by the Irish who set up a pre- Court facility called the Confidential Committee for such disclosures to be made….
… Wendy is right; the abuse of children and their sexual abuse is directly proportional to the diminished status of the “meaning of the child’ throughout the past 40years and not just at home but throughout our educational systems too ….
…. Austerity, which has been the staple diet for the UK, with temporary relief for part of the noughties, since PM Thatcher …
… it is a shit show; the title for the sequel to Stuart Hall’s The Great Moving Right Show ….

Mandatory reporting is a start but the systematic cover ups to protect themselves by local authorities must be stopped.

To the poster above I put it to you that when children report sexual abuse it’s because they want it to stop they want action they want the person to do something to protect them. To say this might prevent disclosure is madness most victims are horrified at the amount of disclosures they have made without action or protection. Feeling they are worthless due to that inaction.

When did sexual abuse be come normalised in social care in this way

The police could be deluged with suspicions they can’t act on. Not sure it has improved the conviction of perpetrators in countries where it has been implemented.