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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    "Incentivise"!!!  @Hostafan1 wash out your keyboard!

    I have no words for paedophilia or child exploitation or sexual harassment.  I don't understand how it starts, how it gets perpetuated by one victim then becoming a victimiser.  i don't understand why social workers and social carers are not better selected, better trained and better paid.  It would save such a lot of money and heartache in the long run.

    Hats off to all survivors who make something of their lives and don not go on to perpetuate the crime. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2021
    Obelixx said:
    ….  i don't understand why social workers and social carers are not better selected, better trained and better paid.  It would save such a lot of money and heartache in the long run.


    You can only select out of the applicants available … ask yourself why so
    few really able folk aspire to be social workers? 😢  

    The pay is down to the value the public place on what they do. Social workers can’t talk about what they do … so no one understands. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    There are family houses near here where I want to weep every time I go past because of what I know.  

    If you know what is happening / has happened, what are you able to do to change the situation?
    I'm absolutely not judging your actions, it's purely a question.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    Anyone want some rain ?  Getting fed up with it here.  Oh, wind on offer too  ;)
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’m speaking about cases that i worked with where I did change the situation … my specialism was working with children with severe learning disabilities… I had to do in-depth work over considerable periods of time to build trust and communication … because of that I was able to spot what was going on. Social workers nowadays don’t have the time to build those relationships. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    £250,000,000 on a bloody yacht😠
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Is that the new royal yacht?  I gather the royals don't actually want it but it's definitely good for Boris' vanity.

    @Dovefromabove an enlightened government would realise that better pay would attract better candidates for any public sector work and sometimes you have to invest to save and get a better result.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Of course it would @Obelixx  … but these things take time to have an effect … by the time an initial investment has begun to produce results, the government who put up the taxes has been voted out by an electorate who succumbed to the promises of other politicians who promised to reduce taxes and interfere less in people’s lives. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    After every case is highlighted,  they trot out the usual "lessons will be learned " but it seems they never are.
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    While the electorate is lead to believe that the fault lies with individuals rather than inadequate funding, and that everything can be done without spending more money, it doesn’t matter whether lessons have been learned or not. 

    Nothing more can be done 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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