Mp David lammy says smacking children could of prevented riots and feels the smacking ban should be undone.
Now to me its not as simple as that there was alot of things going on and there is alot of issues on going on in britain. You cant blame something like the riots on adults not smacking children...im sure some of the children were and there was adult involved in the riots...i wondered how many of them were smacked as children?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2012/01/30/smacking-kids-might-have-prevented-riots-claims-mp-david-lammy-115875-23726897/
Article ritten by Tom Parry...
"I have to say when this was first raised with me I was pretty disparaging. But I started to listen. These parents are scared to smack their children and paranoid that social workers will get involved and take their children away."
I would say from this it isnt a smacking things its general disapline, if parents are scared to inforce any disicpline the result probly would be children running riot, theres no fear...no punishment, if there isnt consequences for your actions then why not just do what ever you want...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Safeguarding children
The Government has defined the term ‘safeguarding children’ as:
‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’
According to NSPCC
53 children a day are abused.
1 in 10 adults has been severely neglected as a child.
Disabled children or children with learning disabilities are 20% more likely 'than average' to run away.
As many as 1 in 9 mothers have shaken their baby and 2 in 9 have felt like shaking their baby.
An article i read into...
'Emma was 14 when she met her first 'boyfriend'. He – in his 30s – bought her presents, picked her up in his car, told her he loved her.
But he soon changed. He became violent and before long was forcing her to have sex with his friends. Then, like a toy, Emma was passed on, shipped around the country and raped by countless men. "I got taken to flats. I don't know where they were and men would be brought to me," she said. "I was never given any names and I don't remember their faces."
Link with some pretty horrific storys of abuse/torture to children:
http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2007/11/21/one-of-the-most-horrendous-child-abuse-stories-ever/
‘The process of protecting children from abuse or neglect, preventing impairment of their health and development, and ensuring they are growing up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care that enables children to have optimum life chances and enter adulthood successfully.’
According to NSPCC
53 children a day are abused.
1 in 10 adults has been severely neglected as a child.
Disabled children or children with learning disabilities are 20% more likely 'than average' to run away.
As many as 1 in 9 mothers have shaken their baby and 2 in 9 have felt like shaking their baby.
An article i read into...
'Emma was 14 when she met her first 'boyfriend'. He – in his 30s – bought her presents, picked her up in his car, told her he loved her.
But he soon changed. He became violent and before long was forcing her to have sex with his friends. Then, like a toy, Emma was passed on, shipped around the country and raped by countless men. "I got taken to flats. I don't know where they were and men would be brought to me," she said. "I was never given any names and I don't remember their faces."
Emma's story is one of unimaginable horror, but according to children's charity Barnardo's there are many more victims like her, and numbers are growing. "Barnardo's knows that sexual exploitation is going on in every town and city in the UK," said chief executive Ann Marie Carrie. "Child victims continue to go unidentified as tell-tale signs are overlooked from the front line of children's services to the corridors of Whitehall.'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/17/childprotection-children
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/17/childprotection-children
http://www.imperfectparent.com/topics/2007/11/21/one-of-the-most-horrendous-child-abuse-stories-ever/
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