John Radoux

This can’t be true, or I would have died years ago…
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This isn’t a comment on this specific case, but Mark Kerr’s wider comments are right, aren’t they? It’s difficult territory, but, among many issues, if care staff become too reluctant to intervene physically, the likelihood is an increase in use of the police.

I don’t doubt there is pain, but I think if someone has a genuine experience of inexplicable or unnecessary child removal, they are likely to want to focus on explaining those circumstances, rather than tell shoppers gangs of SWs are roaming the streets snatching children.

Just in Kingston (London, not Jamaica) and there is a small group of protesters with placards explaining that social workers take children for profit! The man on the mic says SWs are “opportunists and roam in groups, so keep your kids close”! 👀

That’s so gross!

I’m a marmite and cheese man myself…

So many jobs on Indeed put ‘casual dress’ as a ‘benefit’, which I think it pushing it…

Oh, has to be white bread, that’s a hill I will die on…

Oh no, like Filet-O-Fish? I’m really don’t think cheese and fish is a good combination…

Hmmm…

Dez, this is all over the place - no meal where ketchup or baked beans are legitimate ingredients should also include salad! Personally I think all ingredients should be contained within a sandwich, nothing on the side…

That’s only for chips…

Interesting, I tried both at the same time…

Tartare sauce or tomato ketchup in a fish finger sandwich?

Nor have I, but if you’re going to watch one, I’d recommend it.

Curb…

Bitterly disappointing to see this soft-touch approach to ending profiteering in care system.

Asking providers to 'voluntarily limit' profits (when cost of a child in care can exceed £1m p/a) assumes a level of trust never earned.

Tougher measures are needed now; gentle negotiations won’t work.

Yeah, the notion that the large PE backed firms will some how see the light is laughable.

I’m afraid I am pessimistic about the likelihood of the Government’s proposed children’s social care reforms having a meaningful impact.

I’m interested to know if the reduction of children in care was achieved primarily through fewer children coming into care, or through successful reunifications?

You must have increased the support budgets prior to reducing the budget for children in care. Unless you deprived children in care? Initially there has to be an overall increase in spending, otherwise what you are suggesting is mathematically impossible.

It’s not possible to just move money from paying for children in care to early help, both should be funded appropriately. In time, if early intervention and, imv, universal services are funded properly, there should be savings from reduced numbers in care.

Overhaul of children’s social care in England will crack down on firms’ profiteering Government says reforms will end ‘neglect’ in system that leaves young people behind

There is no point in asking private equity backed firms to reduce profits voluntarily, they will rinse as much as they can from the system while they can.

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