Cinderella Act is seriously flawed

The proposed law would have implications for those families willing to adopt. Would you be willing to adopt if you might be liable to criminal investigation for the emotional abuse of a troubled child?

The argument of "emotional abuse" and "risk of future emotional abuse" is often used in the care system when there has been a history of domestic violence.

It is undoubtedly the case that children can suffer emotionally when they witness conflict between their parents. However domestic violence is already illegal and anyone perpetrating domestic abuse can be prosecuted.

Campaign group Action for Children’s proposal for a change to the law defines emotional abuse as "including exposing the child to violence against others in the same household".

This would mean a domestic violence victim can be held liable for emotional abuse of the child. What kind of justice is that?

Rape victims and victims of domestic abuse are already finding this used as a reason for taking children into care.

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/468875/Cinderella-Act-is-seriously-flawed

See also: http://alicemooreuk.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/emotional-cruelty-is-to-be-crime.html

Early years practitioners forced out of Dundee primaries

"Education Scotland, through its work and the work of the online service, aims to ensure that teachers and early years practitioners are offered a range of continuous professional development opportunities to ensure that all children have the best start in life."

http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/earlyyears/about/index.asp

Some early years practitioners are not impressed that they are being transferred from primary schools to nurseries and do not recognise the move as either professional development or helping children: One Dundee spokesman for the council explained that reading, writing and numeracy skills are essential for pre-schoolers. Others see the situation as more like robbing Peter to pay Paul with little help now on offer for children requiring extra help in primary schools. Is this taking the focus on the earliest years one step too far?

"One of the early years practitioners (EYP) being forced to transfer from city primary schools to nurseries has claimed it will have a "devastating" impact on the pupils they help.

She also said the council’s education department had wasted money and effort training them in a new literacy programme.

The EYPs are being removed from 22 primaries as part of savings in the education budget for 2014-15. In the nurseries their wages will instead be paid by the Scottish Government.

The woman who contacted The Courier but did not want to be named, said: "I have been watching my fate unfold in the newspapers and it seems that the education department have sugar coated what is actually about to happen in the nurseries, when in fact we are not allowed to use our skills to teach reading, writing and numeracy."

One respondent had this to say:

"See 'Working for Scotland: The Government's Programme for Scotland 2012-2013.

It is stated:

Children and Young People Bill

The Children and Young People Bill will encourage early years support and intervention to improve the outcomes for all children and young people in Scotland, in particular the most vulnerable. This will help ensure all services work together to support children and young people at all stages of their lives. The Bill will also make real the rights of young people by increasing transparency, scrutiny and accountability around the public sector's approach to the realisation of these rights."

Note: 'all stages of their lives.'

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/dundee/msp-says-facts-do-not-justify-dundee-s-early-years-practitioner-shift-1.223147

Art subjects to be made tougher in exams

In September 2016 new GCSEs in art and design, music, drama, dance, citizenship, computer science, design and technology, PE and religious studies will be introduced.

Improved A-levels in music, drama, dance, design and technology, PE and religious studies will be introduced at the same time.

"I am passionate about great art, drama, dance, music and design, and I am determined to ensure every child enjoys access to the best in our culture," Mr Gove added.

"That is why I am delighted that new high-quality qualifications in creative and cultural subjects will be made available to all students."

http://news.sky.com/story/1239311/arts-subjects-made-tougher-in-exams-revamp

Whilst no-one would want to deny children the enjoyment of creative subjects does making exams tougher, and therefore more competitive, really make sense?  Is this Mr Gove`s idea of an education fit for the 21st century? Or is this about steering children away from the more rational and `dangerous` subjects?

I think there might be a clue in the inclusion of `citizenship` in the list.

Police have access to Knowl View paperwork

"According to Exaro, the investigative website, detectives have been given access to 33 boxes of previously unknown paperwork as part of their investigation into historical claims that boys were sexually abused at a special school where Cyril Smith was a governor.

The archived documents include minutes of governors’ meetings, case notes and other sensitive material that relates to Knowl View special school in Rochdale.

Exaro identified the archive at Rochdale Borough Council after making a request to the local authority under the Freedom of Information Act for material related to the school.

The Council’s Deputy Chief Executive, Linda Fisher, replied by saying that she was refusing to supply the material partly because disclosure "is likely to prejudice the law enforcement or other regulatory activity carried out by the Council."

She continued: "The police have specifically stated that we should not disclose any documentation at this stage as they are concerned that the disclosure would have the potential to prejudice their inquiries."

Police confirmed to Exaro that they have asked officials at Rochdale Council to examine all the files that it holds on Knowl View. "

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/86439/archive-of-33-boxes-of-paperwork-on-special-school-at-the-centre-of-sex-abuse-allegations-against-cyril-smith-discovered

Poll is against three parent children

New pollings released by the charity CARE supports the concern expressed by MPs that the Government is rushing ahead with its proposal to allow the creation of three-parent children without public support or the necessary public safety tests.

A new ComRes poll, commissioned by CARE, demonstrates that more women oppose the introduction of highly controversial techniques to help reduce the chances of women with human mitochondrial disease passing it on to their children than support it.

The hugely controversial procedures that the Government is proposing are not legal in any other country in the world and up until this point every country that has considered them has ended up expressly prohibiting them. They are also expressly prohibited by international treaties like the Council of Europe Convention on Biomedicine.

http://www.care.org.uk/public-affairs-news/press-release-new-polling-raises-public-safety-concerns-about-three-parent-children-proposals

Brainwashing climate change

"The IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] working group report, reported a range of possible warming that ranges for relatively un-alarming to really quite alarming. Now that range of different outcomes leads to very different conclusions. If warming is going to be slow and potentially even beneficial for the next 50 years, you adopt quite different policies to those you would adopt if we’re going to see very serious effects in the short term."

"Again, you see none of that is what our children are being taught in school. This is being mandated by the national curriculum and by the curriculum for excellence in Scotland. We traced it right back to the United Nations, who are promoting sustainable development as something that really can’t be disputed (although, if you read the academic literature, it is a disputed concept – it’s a rather nebulous concept at the best of times – but people certainly dispute whether it’s the right way for mankind to move ahead), but – yes - it carries on from the United Nations into the curricula and into the schools."

"We are calling for the ministers who are responsible for the curriculum to examine our report in detail and to institute inquiries into exactly what is going on. We’ve done a desktop review of what appears to be going on, looking at publicly available documents and trying to get a feel for what is going on in schools and this really needs a proper study to see just how bad it is. There are signs in the new English national curriculum that the level of environmentalism is being toned down. In Scotland, it appears to be getting worse, if anything. So there is a real cause for concern here, I think."

Read more:  http://voiceofrussia.com/uk/news/2014_04_08/Report-finds-schoolchildren-being-brainwashed-over-climate-change-7237/

Also see article below:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/04/08/Schoolchildren-terrorized-and-brainwashed-by-green-propaganda-says-damning-survey

A sustainable planet

Here is why Scottish education is taking an interest in children`s attitudes and behaviour and why sustainability is to be at the core of Curriculum for Excellence.

Moving towards the goal of sustainability requires fundamental changes in human attitudes and behaviour. Progress in this direction is thus critically dependent on education and public awareness. The concept of sustainable development – as this document suggests – is not a simple one, and there is no road map to prescribe how we should proceed. Yet time is short, and we are called upon to act without delay. We must move ahead now, in a spirit of exploration and experimentation and with the broadest possible range of partners, so as to contribute through education to correcting trends that place in jeopardy our common future.

http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_a/popups/mod01t05s01.html

Our children are to be the guinea pigs in a vast unelected globalist experiment without any discussion about it. They must be subjected to transformational change in place of a tried and trusted educational system despite there being no road map. 

We must appreciate the interconnectedness of people and nature at a local and global level; value the importance of natural and cultural diversity to our lives, economy and wellbeing, and so on and on it goes. HERE All of this sounds altruistic and fair until we see how it works in practice.

Two examples suffice to illustrate the madness that is being developed in the name of `sustainability`:

Beacon: Using land for biofuelds, not food

Using land for biofuels instead of growing food is a prize winning project for sustainability. But if you regard the Earth`s human population as unsustainable - as the globalists do -  why worry about feeding the world`s children?

The recent flooding in Somerset was driven by EU policy directives so that the interests of `biodiversity, sustainability and wildlife habitats` were put above those of farming and people.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/10625663/Flooding-Somerset-Levels-disaster-is-being-driven-by-EU-policy.html:

Here is how the madness began:
 
"The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy is humanity itself."

(The Club of Rome - Premier environmental think-tank and consultants to the United Nations quoted in community press group)http://communitypressgroup.com/articles/extreme-carbon-dioxide-reduction-will-be-a-death-sentence-for-humanity--planet-earth-/

Activity Agreements

Here`s Youthlink: "Activity Agreements are being delivered to young people across all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Activity Agreements are for those young people who may not, without additional support, make a successful transition to work, further education or training. The information provided on these pages aims to support and inform all local authorities and their partners to best deliver within the Activity Agreement framework."

According to the guidelines Activitity Agreements, are agreements made between a young person and an advisor that a young person will take part in a programme of learning and activity which helps them to become ready for formal learning or employment. The compulsory nature of these agreements comes from the fact that the young people concerned may ( and therefore may not) receive an allowance in return for complying. So if they do not comply?

We are informed that Curriculum for Excellence includes a senior phase of learning after leaving school for some vulnerable 16 to 18 year olds because they may require support to build their confidence, self esteem and social skills and to develop their skills in team working. Since these are the very attributes that Curriculum for Excellence seeks to build in schoolchildren this does suggest a lack of confidence in the ability of the curriculum to deliver: That, or the same rhetoric is to be used to justify further state involvement.

Here is the state involvement:

Intensive advice and guidance will have to be a central element of their activity - particularly when their learning activity must fit in with other issues such as healthcare.

Here is the same rhetoric:

It may take place in informal community or third sector settings  [You mean workfare] to avoid unemployment and poverty in later life. [Recall early interventions initially were to target 0 - 3 year olds in order to avoid the same pitfalls, that is, unemployment and poverty later in life.]

This also requires robust protocols for sharing information about young people`s needs and interests, so the services they access can be appropriately tailored. The development of this guidance will ensure a close alighment to Getting it Right For Every Child.

Oh dear ! When are our children going to be allowed to escape the clutches of the state manipulators and state snoopers?

YouthLink

Islington Council child abuse investigation

Islington Council is to conduct its own investigation into historic child abuse despite objections from abuse survivors and its poor track record, under Margaret Hodge, of taking child abuse seriously.

Demetrious Panton, who was repeatedly abused by Bernie Bain, the former head of an Islington children’s home in the late Seventies, said: "An independent police investigation into Islington is crucial. I know so much. Yet, throughout all the 13 inquiries into Islington, I was never once asked to give evidence."

Mr Panton, who is a lawyer, added: "We still don’t know the full extent of Islington’s corruption...

Mr Panton first complained about Bain in 1979 but was ignored. When Mrs Hodge was children’s minister in 2003, and her job under pressure over her former role at Islington council, she accused Mr Panton of being "extremely disturbed" in a private letter to the BBC in an attempt to discredit his testimony.

Asked if he thought it right that Mrs Hodge’s son-in-law now held a key position in the council, he replied: "Of course not. I don’t know him at all and he may be a fine councillor, but I would think it is better that he is not in this position, given the association."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10747257/Margaret-Hodge-sorry-as-council-she-led-told-to-investigate-Savile-abuse-allegations.html

Liz Davies, speaking to the Daily Mail, recounts Margaret Hodge`s involvement in the discredited `Every Child Matters` agenda which called for the database profiling of every child in England. (Similar to GIRFEC in Scotland). Vulnerable children were lost like a needle in a haystack`.

She recalls Margaret Hodge`s dismal performance, as leader of Islington Council:

When I uncovered a child sex ring in Islington's care homes in the Nineties, I found one of the homes included a young relative of Baby P who was introducing other children to pimps and appeared to be a victim himself.

He needed the help of experienced social workers and dedicated detectives who could organise surveillance, intelligence and physical protection.

The boy begged social workers for help. But Margaret Hodge, who was leader of Islington Council at the time, refused to believe a ring was active.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1179751/Why-soon-new-Baby-P-scandal--woman-tried-warn-danger.html

See article in Telegraph

Grimsby police abduct a 10 year old girl

Unfortunately this video has been deleted from Youtube. All I can say is that those who witnessed the police taking away a child from their family have the same awful experience.

 The child did not want to go; the family did not want to let her go; and yet the police uplifted her and took her away.

The most evil thing about this is that it is not been allowed to be made public.

Government supported agencies say it must be SECRET.

Anything secret is bad.