Wednesday 2 January 2013
How ‘child protection’ policies harm children
"We all want kids to be safe, but the plan to create a new database of children who visit A&E units will have the opposite effect.
Recent UK government policies aimed at protecting children have been based on an erroneous assumption - namely that intrusive monitoring of intergenerational relations is the only way to keep kids safe. In truth, such policies - including the mandatory vetting of all adults who work with children - are at best a form of PR, designed to demonstrate that officials take child safety seriously; and at worst, they fuel suspicion of all adults, creating an ever-widening cultural chasm between generations. This can actually diminish rather than enhance the security of young people."
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13219/
How not to protect children from abuse
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jan/01/protect-children-from-abuse
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