Mr Kobayashi
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No, kids being in care is a shit thing. But it’s better that than neglected or worse, dead, kids. Where is the evidence to support that funding cuts has increased the need for children to be in care? It may be out there but it just seems rather tenuous. I’ve read there is a deft of foster carers but has their funding been cut? I thought the problem was a lack of those willing to do the role.
The question about cycle is a good one. I don’t know. Kids need role models and I suspect for the people that work in care homes it’s hard to give them the attention they need however hard they work. Now if someone said to me care homes are failing due to a funding crisis I’d not question it (well I might check now but that cause and effect makes sense).
Putting kids in care should always be the last resort. I'm sure you agree with me about that. Sometimes their parents aren't evil or bad they were just struggling with issues which they can overcome with support from substance abuse or mental health support services.
Here is another issue. If we deem these women aren't capable of raising children then it is more cruel not to sterilise them. Or maybe we should offer them help and support to work through their issues and for example pull them away from repeated relationships with abusive men.
Are we failing parents whose children are taken into care?
Social services can remove child after child from the same mother, without her being offered the help she needs to become a good-enough parent. The result is heartbreak, and very expensive – but now judges are calling for a new approach
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Full disclosure here, I'm not an expert in this field but I did work in a department that commissioned services and part of my job was to redact personal information from children's profiles, it meant I read their life story and I would have known if their parents had been in care themselves. I also know about some of the ad-hoc services councils commissioned (temporary accommodation e.g. budget hotels, caravans, holiday lets with support workers on minimum wage).
Do you think sometimes the care system is capable of doing more harm than good? Taking someone away from their birth family will be emotionally unsettling, even if their parents are feckless and neglectful. And then going from placement to placement. When that is the only option, we have to accept that but sometimes it isn't.
Most residential children's homes are run by private companies motivated by generating profits. They have no incentive to improve the quality of their care if it cuts into those profits or they aren't able to rip-off local authorities even more.
Private Foster care agencies owned by private equity firms.
Private children’s home providers charging councils too much, report says
Market in England is broken and failing too many children, says chair of independent review
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