They are coming for your children, too

[Ali Admin]

Renegade Parent blog today is another must read, They are coming for your children, too .

This post pulls a number of threads together about where the government is heading and why, which RP sums up as

...an illegitimate review into a perfectly legal and reasonable civil liberty, based on spurious allegations, contradiction and a predetermined outcome of “change to the status quo”, and fuelled by the questionable posturing of possible providers, who are charitable organisations in name but nevertheless already receive significant financial support from the government.

A change to the status quo, that, if enshrined in law, will set a legal precedent with the potential to severely erode to privacy of every family with children from birth onwards, through intervention that might include inspection, monitoring or assessment of every child outside of state provision, according to a government’s definition of satisfactory education or welfare.

As we have long said, this is not a home education issue but one which should be concerning every family in the land.

[Sheila Struthers]

http://www.renegadeparent.net/post/T...n-too.aspx#top

As someone desperately trying to alert the public to the dangers of the Every Child Matters/Getting It Right for Every Child, I really welcome this.

Circulate it far and wide - what is of concern to us as a minority group is coming for all parents if they don't wake up

[Amy Thomson]

Well, every child is to be allocated a 'named person' while they are still in the womb. This named person will be in charge of continually assessing your child to see if they're meeting their seven well-being indicators (yeah, I know, you couldn't make it up). Don't think you're off the hook if you home educate or don't use the NHS, because

“Work is in progress in Highland to designate special arrangements for the
appointment of a named person for children who are not in touch with either
school or health services on a regular basis or who are transient.”

From the GIRFEC Highland Pathfinder http://www.forhighlandschildren.org/...nsultation.pdf

This is the Scottish version of course, and the terminology may differ across the UK, but it's the same rubbish behind it all.

Anyone know where I can get a steel door and a shotgun?

[Ali Admin]

Just merged two threads on same topic. We're on the ball, what?

[Ali Admin]

This article about early years learning is from Australia, and there are no prizes for spotting the parallels.

Frank Oberklaid, director of the Centre for Community Child Health, says children at that age are "learning machines" — yet in many cases are in the care of workers with no qualifications.

"What would you say about a school system where half the teachers are untrained, half the teachers have no qualifications?" he says. "We wouldn't accept that, and yet we accept that in child-care centres."

You can see where this is leading, can't you? Untrained parents, like untrained child carers, are a danger to children. I wonder how long it will be before pregnant women are placed in care too?

[Amy Thomson]

The Americans have been at it for a while, too.

http://www.kickthemallout.com/articl...s_Our_Children

[Amy Thomson]

Just found this document, detailing the whole process. Here it is in black and white... or, mauve and purple anyway...

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/...71/0015992.pdf

There is more here, if you can stomach it: http://www.hi-netgrampian.org/hinet/...tml?pMenuID=4& .

The state determining outcomes for citizens, and enforcing them through non-negotiable support, for the benefit (as far as I can see) of an economic elite. Absolute surveillance. Absolute control. This is pure fascism. Worse - it is fascism on a grand scale; this same agenda is being rolled out worldwide. We are being robbed of our freedoms, our privacy, our dignity... either at the hands of a jackbooted grunt with a rifle, or a snivelling jobsworth with a ballpoint pen. It doesn't matter. Those who don't succumb to the latter will be subjected to the former before long... extraordinary rendition, anyone? Shoot to kill policy? Detention without trial?

Totalitarianism is here. Vive la resistance!

[Amy Thomson]

Oh, and 'in need of additional support' doesn't mean what it used to, either.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publicati...15105817/58226

[Amy Thomson]

Also... didn't someone make a joke a while ago about checking up on kids during the school holidays?

"Children outwith school
6.17 In planning and delivering the universal core programme of contacts, NHS Boards should
make particular arrangements to identify those children who are not in school, and to
ensure that they receive care and support consistent with this guidance. This will require
close liaison between NHS and education authority services. These children and young
people may include those who:
• Are home educated.
• Are in secure or special residential care with associated education provision.
• Are in hospital or residential respite care.
• Have been excluded from school.
• Are truanting.
6.18 The Framework for Nursing in Schools62 recommends that community, practice and
school profiling should identify vulnerable groups of children and young people who may
require extra or different support and help, and that school nurses should be supported
to work in a range of settings in order to meet these needs. The Framework also
recognises that the needs and problems of school age children and young people are not
restricted to term time and can often be more exaggerated during the school holiday
periods. It advises that this should be reflected in appropriate service provision."

From Health For all Children - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/...32/0011167.pdf

Sorry for banging on ! But it just keeps getting curiouser and curiouser... and scarier and scarier...

[noschool]

And no guesses as to what "good" parenting will involve.

This is all connected to the surveillance agenda, dressed up to look like concern for children in the shambolic 'care' system.

Committee chairman Barry Sheerman said: "It is imperative that the government tackles the perception that entering the care system is catastrophic for a child's future prospects.

"It must be seen as a positive experience, but this will only happen if the state can better replicate the warm, secure care of good parents for every child in the system."

I shouldn't think parents who look after thier own children will be deemed good enough in this Brave New World Order where brainwashing starts in the womb.

Are all of these so called professionals so dimwitted that they can't see they are bieng duped? Surely some of them must have avoided the mindsnatchers?
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