"They advocated a German or Swedish scheme, applied from an early age, using games and social media to engage with young people on the topic."
"Prof Joyce Harper, who works for the embryology, IVF and reproductive genetics group at University College hospital London, advocates teaching sex education and fertility from a young age."
"Prof Adam Balen, chairman of the British Fertility Society, who organised the summit, said: `We should look at three and four-year-olds being introduced to ideas about where babies come from.`"
"A new poll, conducted to mark the conference, found that many 16 to 24-year-olds found worrying gaps in their knowledge of fertility and reproductive health."
"While fertility rates for both sexes decline gradually from the late 20s, and can be affected by genetic and environmental factors such as smoking, obesity and nutrition, four in five of 1,000 surveyed thought a woman’s fertility only started to decline after the age of 35."
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/apr/15/teach-three-year-olds-sex-education-experts-fertility-reproduction
In Scotland we have been told that children need to have sex education from an early age in order to reduce teenage pregnancies although how that is supposed to work I am not sure.
Now it is being suggested that sex education should begin at three or four years old because kids are growing up with gaps in their understanding of fertility.
Really, it`s any excuse to sexualise young children.
Sunday, 17 April 2016
Saturday, 16 April 2016
Isle of Man: an evidence based outcome
As the threshold for intervention is lowered, Scotland`s child protection services are heading for a catastrophe. Here the children`s workforce is being trained in `newspeak` in order to support children`s well-being:
From the Scottish Daily Mail:
"The SNP is ploughing ahead with its controversial state guardian scheme despite a similar initiative in the Isle of Man proving a costly disaster. The Scottish Daily Mail can reveal the Manx policy - known as `Every Child Matters` (ECM) - is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry into its toxic fallout."
"On Tuesday, the Tynwald, the Manx legislature, will debate a motion condemning the `oppressive treatment` of families by social workers on the island, and calling for an urgent independent inquiry."
"Some 2,200 professionals including police and headteachers were trained to inform social services about even the slightest concern over a child`s welfare."
"This led to an explosion in the number of referrals to social workers, reaching 959 a year - roughly equivalent to the annual number of births on the island."
"A Tynwald committee is now probing the repercussions of implementing ECM six years ago - a decision now officially acknowledged as a `mistake`."
"In Scotland a similar policy, the hugely controversial `Named Persons` initiative, is due to begin in August..."
"The ECM policy was introduced on the Isle of Man, a self-governing Crown dependency with a population of around 85,000 (17,000 children) in 2010."
"Previously, social workers could only take radical action such as forcibly taking children into care if there was a risk of `significant harm`."
"But this was broadened out to include a much wider series of new yardsticks to ensure children were `healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving [and] making a positive contribution`."
"A 2013 submission to Holyrood`s Education and Culture Committee by Tristram Llewelyn Jones - a Manx civil liberties campaigner and a critic of ECM - warned against introducing Named Persons in Scotland because of the problems on the Isle of Man."
"It said the Manx approach allowed `compulsory` intervention for a threshold as low as a concern that a child apparently might not be `enjoying` life."
"The submission noted that the first indications of problems with ECM arose in July 2011 when the Isle of Man government had to ask the Tynwald for £489,000 additional funding for more social workers..."
"`The point we have reached is the point Scotland will reach in a few years` time, if it goes ahead with Named Persons.`"
"On Tuesday, the Tynwald will debate a motion lodged by independent MP Peter Karran, which voices concern about `serious allegations.. regarding the repeated conduct of the Department of Health and Social Care in the management of vulnerable families` cases`."
"Demanding an independent inquiry, the motion also notes that particular allegations have been made relating to the falsification of files and to oppressive treatment of individuals`."
"Alison Preuss of Home Education Forums, which opposes Named Persons, said: `We don`t need a crystal ball to see that Scotland is heading towards its own inquiry in a few years` time as complaints from victims start to mount up.`.."
NO, the Named Person could be an unknown council worker. That anonymous Scottish Government spokesman gets it wrong again !
http://www.pressreader.com/
Read more http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_EducationandCultureCommittee/Children%20and%20Young%20People%20(Scotland)%20Bill/LlewellynJonesTristramC.pdf
From the Scottish Daily Mail:
"The SNP is ploughing ahead with its controversial state guardian scheme despite a similar initiative in the Isle of Man proving a costly disaster. The Scottish Daily Mail can reveal the Manx policy - known as `Every Child Matters` (ECM) - is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry into its toxic fallout."
"On Tuesday, the Tynwald, the Manx legislature, will debate a motion condemning the `oppressive treatment` of families by social workers on the island, and calling for an urgent independent inquiry."
"Some 2,200 professionals including police and headteachers were trained to inform social services about even the slightest concern over a child`s welfare."
"This led to an explosion in the number of referrals to social workers, reaching 959 a year - roughly equivalent to the annual number of births on the island."
"A Tynwald committee is now probing the repercussions of implementing ECM six years ago - a decision now officially acknowledged as a `mistake`."
"In Scotland a similar policy, the hugely controversial `Named Persons` initiative, is due to begin in August..."
"The ECM policy was introduced on the Isle of Man, a self-governing Crown dependency with a population of around 85,000 (17,000 children) in 2010."
"Previously, social workers could only take radical action such as forcibly taking children into care if there was a risk of `significant harm`."
"But this was broadened out to include a much wider series of new yardsticks to ensure children were `healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving [and] making a positive contribution`."
"A 2013 submission to Holyrood`s Education and Culture Committee by Tristram Llewelyn Jones - a Manx civil liberties campaigner and a critic of ECM - warned against introducing Named Persons in Scotland because of the problems on the Isle of Man."
"It said the Manx approach allowed `compulsory` intervention for a threshold as low as a concern that a child apparently might not be `enjoying` life."
"The submission noted that the first indications of problems with ECM arose in July 2011 when the Isle of Man government had to ask the Tynwald for £489,000 additional funding for more social workers..."
"`The point we have reached is the point Scotland will reach in a few years` time, if it goes ahead with Named Persons.`"
"On Tuesday, the Tynwald will debate a motion lodged by independent MP Peter Karran, which voices concern about `serious allegations.. regarding the repeated conduct of the Department of Health and Social Care in the management of vulnerable families` cases`."
"Demanding an independent inquiry, the motion also notes that particular allegations have been made relating to the falsification of files and to oppressive treatment of individuals`."
"Alison Preuss of Home Education Forums, which opposes Named Persons, said: `We don`t need a crystal ball to see that Scotland is heading towards its own inquiry in a few years` time as complaints from victims start to mount up.`.."
"A Scottish Government spokesman said: `The Named Person isn`t someone new or unknown - it is part of the role undertaken by a person already working with the child and family and this simply strengthens that relationship.`"
http://www.pressreader.com/
Read more http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/S4_EducationandCultureCommittee/Children%20and%20Young%20People%20(Scotland)%20Bill/LlewellynJonesTristramC.pdf
Five per cent of families are assessed every year
Norway is not the only country which has a child protection service that has spun out of control:
"A huge increase in the number of children being referred to social services has caused `catastrophic` trauma for tens of thousands of families without any corresponding increase in the number of child abuse cases detected, the author of a study has said."
"According to statistical analysis by the University of the West of England, child protection referrals have risen by 297% since the Children Act came into force 23 years ago, and assessments by social services have risen by 359%. The proportion of cases in which abuse was identified has plummeted from 24% to just under 8%."
" `We are now at a situation where up to 5% of all families are now referred for assessment every year,` said Dr Lauren Devine, principal investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded study. `The vast majority of those do not injure or seriously harm their children, but government policy requiring risk assessment at quite a low threshold means that rather than feeling supported by social services, some families now feel fear.`"
"As the number of applications to take children into care hits a record high, Devine argues that the system is overwhelming caseworkers and putting the most serious cases of abuse at risk of being missed. At the same time, many families who have done nothing wrong are being traumatised by intrusive investigations. `Research shows that if you put parents on the floor with stress, you’re not going to improve their parenting,` she said."
"`There is no way to separate out a simple request for services for a struggling family from an assessment of whether a child is at risk of abuse, Devine said. `These now go hand in hand – and you’re then investigated and risk-assessed on all aspects of your family life.` Social workers say their caseload now exceeds what children’s services can reasonably manage."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/15/rise-in-referrals-social-services-trauma-families-child-protection?CMP=share_btn_fb
"A huge increase in the number of children being referred to social services has caused `catastrophic` trauma for tens of thousands of families without any corresponding increase in the number of child abuse cases detected, the author of a study has said."
"According to statistical analysis by the University of the West of England, child protection referrals have risen by 297% since the Children Act came into force 23 years ago, and assessments by social services have risen by 359%. The proportion of cases in which abuse was identified has plummeted from 24% to just under 8%."
" `We are now at a situation where up to 5% of all families are now referred for assessment every year,` said Dr Lauren Devine, principal investigator of the Economic and Social Research Council-funded study. `The vast majority of those do not injure or seriously harm their children, but government policy requiring risk assessment at quite a low threshold means that rather than feeling supported by social services, some families now feel fear.`"
"As the number of applications to take children into care hits a record high, Devine argues that the system is overwhelming caseworkers and putting the most serious cases of abuse at risk of being missed. At the same time, many families who have done nothing wrong are being traumatised by intrusive investigations. `Research shows that if you put parents on the floor with stress, you’re not going to improve their parenting,` she said."
"`There is no way to separate out a simple request for services for a struggling family from an assessment of whether a child is at risk of abuse, Devine said. `These now go hand in hand – and you’re then investigated and risk-assessed on all aspects of your family life.` Social workers say their caseload now exceeds what children’s services can reasonably manage."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/15/rise-in-referrals-social-services-trauma-families-child-protection?CMP=share_btn_fb
`Norway Return the Children to Bodnariu Family`
Global protest against Barnevernet 16 April 2016
https://www.facebook.com/Norway-Return-the-children-to-Bodnariu-Family-744234959015965/?fref=nf
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