When Will They Learn?
Posted by Simon Emmett on January 26, 2010, 06:17
The story of the two boys who tortured and abused their victims in Doncaster, in one that should finally be the epiphany to the g0vernment that something is truely wrong in our society. But with it’s usual ostrich mentality the government does not want to hear anything that proves a mistake has been made.
Doncasters social services has been a joke, which is why it is under special measures. It has failed to protect the most needy in the area, so something is going going very wrong up there. What is that? Well thanks to this government, we won’t know. The report into to the failings of this case will only see an executive summary published, and after the baby Peter case in Haringey, these summaries have been proved to miss out the key issues that need to be learnt.
The problem stems with this government. The country needs to know what went wrong in Doncaster, what signs were missed, and mistakes were made. This is not about blaming any individuals (unless there was blatant incompetency), but identify what happened so that it can be put right. More importantly by having the full report published social services up and down the country can look at it as see if they are making those mistakes as well, and maybe even be able to prevent cases like these two boys from happening there.
The government however don’t want this. Ed Balls even think that the majority of the nation does not want oublication. What planet is the guy on? The executive summary will be seen as nothing but a whitewaash, which will in effect puitmore children at risk of being harmed. The problem is that the government is scared that it may look bad on them, but that should not stop the publication of the report.
Lessons need to be learnt from this cases, and until the government learn them, more children will remain at risk.
