A death from child abuse means so many people have failed that child. From the parents, to school, to the agencies in charge.
Makes the blood boil.
31-35, M
SomeMichGuy · M
MicrowaveDinner · M
They rather protect the abuser than the child. They let it happen time and time again and nothing stops.
They believe the adult over the child.
They see the pain in the child eyes
The fear in the child soul
They see the bruises
And they do nothing
No one speaks up
And it happens
Everywhere
Every day
They believe the adult over the child.
They see the pain in the child eyes
The fear in the child soul
They see the bruises
And they do nothing
No one speaks up
And it happens
Everywhere
Every day
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@SmoKin It does, and every time we hear the same platitudes about "leraning lessons" and "putting procedures in place to ensure it never happens again".
We also hear the common reason, of poor communications between different departments and agencies.
Which led to wonder if the problem lies in what those platitudes demand. Have the authorities put so many "procedures in place" that in fact the staff cannot work properly?
"Procedures" might work in a factory mass-producing gadgets under ISO9001 management-accreditation but here we are dealing with human beings in very difficult circumstances; not gadgets and book-keeping.
Every case is unique, so we might expect considerable flexibility in how they are handled.
Yet even if budget cuts have not cut the staff numbers to unsustainable levels (another fault), are the case-workers far too bound by the "Procedures", menu-driven databases, rigid definitions etc.? So they might win ISO9001 but that means they cannot and dare not try, to use their initiative and experience? Especially as the unfortunate case-workers know they are all too easily used as cheap scapegoats in the febrile atmospheres that child-murder within families create.*
Do the agencies' methods differ so much that their office systems work well internally but hinder rather than help communication with others?
I do not know if this is happening but my CV includes workshop and lab-floor level employment in specialist engineering fields under "Procedure"-rich, top-down ISO900x strictures, hence my question about "putting procedures in place".
So is this a question that needs be raised, in the Police and in the Education, Social and Health Services?
+++++++
* In the aftermath of one such case in England the head of the local childrens' services did herself no favours by saying "I did nothing wrong". The 'Red-Top' Press in particularly strirred up a wave of hatred for her.... no-one stopped to think. She had indeed done nothing worng. Apart from not being personally involved in the case anyway, she had worked as she was paid and expected, by all the policies, rules and Procedures. It was the system that was flawed by trying too hard to be flawless, not its managers and case-workers.
We also hear the common reason, of poor communications between different departments and agencies.
Which led to wonder if the problem lies in what those platitudes demand. Have the authorities put so many "procedures in place" that in fact the staff cannot work properly?
"Procedures" might work in a factory mass-producing gadgets under ISO9001 management-accreditation but here we are dealing with human beings in very difficult circumstances; not gadgets and book-keeping.
Every case is unique, so we might expect considerable flexibility in how they are handled.
Yet even if budget cuts have not cut the staff numbers to unsustainable levels (another fault), are the case-workers far too bound by the "Procedures", menu-driven databases, rigid definitions etc.? So they might win ISO9001 but that means they cannot and dare not try, to use their initiative and experience? Especially as the unfortunate case-workers know they are all too easily used as cheap scapegoats in the febrile atmospheres that child-murder within families create.*
Do the agencies' methods differ so much that their office systems work well internally but hinder rather than help communication with others?
I do not know if this is happening but my CV includes workshop and lab-floor level employment in specialist engineering fields under "Procedure"-rich, top-down ISO900x strictures, hence my question about "putting procedures in place".
So is this a question that needs be raised, in the Police and in the Education, Social and Health Services?
+++++++
* In the aftermath of one such case in England the head of the local childrens' services did herself no favours by saying "I did nothing wrong". The 'Red-Top' Press in particularly strirred up a wave of hatred for her.... no-one stopped to think. She had indeed done nothing worng. Apart from not being personally involved in the case anyway, she had worked as she was paid and expected, by all the policies, rules and Procedures. It was the system that was flawed by trying too hard to be flawless, not its managers and case-workers.
bijouxbroussard · F