Let Glasow`s children flourish through adoption and fostering

I do not think it is appropriate to have these messages displayed outside primary schools.

`FOSTER AND ADOPT - grow your family tree.`

It is bad enough that young children are taught to see the Named Person  as the head gardener but these banners promoting adoption and fostering are taking the plant analogy to a whole new low.

See how children are represented as grafts on the plant. [Cutting, forcing, healing: that`s all part of the process.]

 

 

There`s a subliminal message for parents too.

Big data and predictive analytics

 

"For some parents, the words `Child Protective Services` send chills down the spine. In an effort to stamp out fraud and abuse, welfare outfits across the country have honed in on poor communities of color for decades now, critics claim, with almost any government interaction potentially leading to kids being removed from their homes."

"Now big data is set [to] make the dynamic even more intense—and racially charged."

"In 1999, the foster care population in the United States reached a peak at 567,000. But due to both diminishing budgets and programs aimed at keeping children in their homes, that number dropped to 415,000 by 2014. The representation of black children in the foster system remains disproportionately high, however: Black children account for 24 percent of kids in foster care, while comprising just 14 percent of the general population of children in the US. And a burgeoning method for determining exactly which families get visits from child welfare caseworkers has advocates for low-income families worried the disparity will only get worse."

"The new approach is called `predictive analytics,` and it's taking the child welfare system by storm. Across the country, from suburban counties in Florida to major cities like Los Angeles, child welfare agencies are launching initiatives that take data points like race, parental welfare status, and criminal history, and a variety of other publicly available characteristics, and feed them into an algorithm that assigns each child a `risk` score. That score is then considered when determining whether a caseworker should visit a family."

http://www.vice.com/read/how-child-protection-agencies-are-trying-to-predict-which-parents-will-abuse-kids

Foster carer found guilty of murder

"A woman who battered a toddler to death months after she was made the child's legal guardian has been found guilty of murder."

"Eighteen-month-old Keegan Downer, born Shi-Anne, collapsed at the family home in Birmingham on 5 September 2015."

"A post-mortem revealed she died from a combination of septicaemia, infection, blunt chest trauma, and old head injuries..."

 

 

"In January 2015 she went to live with Kandyce Downer who became the child's legal guardian."

"At first the child was `healthy and happy` while living with Ms Downer, who was studying a full-time business course."

"In the three months before her death, Keegan was not seen by any independent care professional, including medical staff or social services."

http://news.sky.com/story/1689450/barbaric-foster-mum-guilty-of-toddler-murder