Atos &co to take over Child Protection services in UK

[natasa778]

From 38degrees today:

Would you trust private companies like G4S, Atos or Serco to look after vulnerable children? Or to influence decisions about taking children into care? Protecting children is one of the most difficult and sensitive roles for a government to perform. But education secretary Michael Gove is consulting on whether to outsource this role to profit making companies. [1]

If we want to stop this, we don’t have long - the consultation closes this Friday. So far, the issue’s had very little media coverage, and the consultation has barely been publicised. If thousands of us write in today, we can show Michael Gove that we’re watching - and make sure he drops these plans.

Please can you write to the consultation today:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/childprotection

Decisions by child protection professionals affect lives and can break up families, these decisions should be kept miles away from any hint of a profit motive. Adoption services have already been protected from privatisation. And there’s no evidence to suggest that outsourcing services is a good idea anyway. [2]

The government’s proposal argues that letting private companies provide children’s services will encourage innovation.[3] But we all saw the mess that G4S made of providing security at the Olympics, would we really want them to care for vulnerable children’s lives?

Experts have already voiced outrage at the plans, now we need to hammer the message home with people power. [4] Previously when 38 Degrees members have responded to Michael Gove’s consultations, our voices have been heard loud and clear. Last year, he dropped his plans to remove climate change from school curriculums after we wrote in our thousands to oppose them. [5]

Can you write into the consultation and help stop these plans today:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/childprotection

NOTES:
[1] The Guardian - Privatise child protection services, Department for Education proposes: http://www.theguardian.com/society/...on-services-department-for-education-proposes
[2] Public Finance - Child protection: not for sale: http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2014/05/child-protection-not-for-sale/
[3] The government proposal: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ta/file/304660/Powers_to_Delegate_Con_Doc.pdf
[4] The Guardian - Child protection services too important to be privatised: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/16/child-protection-privatised

 

[Ambrosia_angel]

This is seriously horrible. Innocent children will die and the government will have blood on their hands in this goes through.

 

[SilverbladeTE]

Yeah, more ways to make profit off it all and that includes massive organized paedophilia for the Elite!
Some of the children's homes have been used as...slave pens, brothels by the evil filth.
because in English law, children's cases are secret, it's been massively covered up
now they can use commercial confidentiality laws as well to keep it secret

what's happened is the government has already privatized much of this stuff, so it makes the private companies about £2 billion a year keeping kids locked up, and of COURSE they'd never ever intentionally seize children for profit and perversion, would they?
They'd never have let these same companies keeping the children to buy up the only expert witnesses and lawyers they law has allowed to work on such cases, of course not, that would be terrible for natural justice and unethical as hell!
They'd never intentionally prevent children getting released and cutting their profits!
Nope....

if you have strong stomachs go look this stuff up, it's serious, it's huge, there's lots of witness interviews/testimonies including cops etc saying yes, this horror is real.

 

[Mudhole]

Yeah, more ways to make profit off it all and that includes massive organized paedophilia for the Elite!
Some of the children's homes have been used as...slave pens, brothels by the evil filth.
because in English law, children's cases are secret, it's been massively covered up
now they can use commercial confidentiality laws as well to keep it secret

what's happened is the government has already privatized much of this stuff, so it makes the private companies about £2 billion a year keeping kids locked up, and of COURSE they'd never ever intentionally seize children for profit and perversion, would they?
They'd never have let these same companies keeping the children to buy up the only expert witnesses and lawyers they law has allowed to work on such cases, of course not, that would be terrible for natural justice and unethical as hell!
They'd never intentionally prevent children getting released and cutting their profits!
Nope....

This happened in Pennsylvania a dozen years ago. A ring of crooked judges and court workers, a private juvenile prison- thousands of kids were locked up on BS charges- for PROFIT!