I was nearly at the end of my shift travelling in steady traffic through South London. The evenings had already started drawing in and it was dark, but still warm, so I had my windows open. Suddenly a woman wearing a dressing gown and slippers ran out into the road into the path of my…
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UK Government axes child protection database – ContactPoint
From The Press Association: A £224 million government database holding the records of all 11 million children in England has been scrapped. [source] What a wasted opportunity to assist professionals to protect vulnerable children and young people. So much developmental work had already been undertaken on ContactPoint, an important and much needed project which would…
Children living in poverty
The front garden is littered with rubbish; the gate hangs impotently ajar on one hinge. The concrete path is split and the gaping holes have been filled with opportunist rampant weeds. The broken front door has been ‘kicked in’ one too many times, evidenced by the clumsy attempts to repair it with gaffer tape. The…
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