How Austerity Left More Children Vulnerable To Abuse | Teresa Thornhill talks to Aaron Bastani
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- čas přidán 16. 05. 2024
- Teresa Thornhill is an author and former child protection lawyer. Throughout her long career, working for both local authorities and advocating on behalf of parents, she has been a first hand witness to how the system fails parents, social workers and, most importantly, children.
Teresa sat down with Aaron to talk about the untrained volunteers deciding children’s futures, whether drug policy matters, and how austerity will have costs for decades to come.
You can buy Teresa’s book here: harpercollins.co.uk/products/...
00:00 Intro
02:19 What Exactly is ‘Child Protection’?
07:35 What is a Child in Need?
09:57 What Kind of Judges are Involved?
14:40 What are the Main Causes of Child Neglect?
18:50 What are the Costs?
26:11 What Happens to Young Mothers Whose Children are Taken Away?
31:19 Lack of Resources
39:34 SureStart Centres
42:42 How did Austerity Change Things?
47:24 Social Work’s Intense Workload
55:15 How do we Fix it?
58:58 Finley Boden
1:03:35 Management Problems
1:11:49 Drug Policy
1:16:12 Boarding Schools
1:17:50 The Effects of Covid
1:23:13 More Solutions
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I am a child protection social worker. The local authority I work for has a 40% vacancy rate and has been unable to perform there statutory duties. The level of poverty and mental crisis we are working with is immense. This includes families we work with but also staff. Social work as a profession is in crisis and there is no discussion about this in the public sphere.
Week after week Novara justify their subscription. Just outstanding. Having spent many years working with looked after children, youth offending services and then onwards to adult addiction and homelessness, I'm so glad that you've given the time to this important subject. It drives so much injustice and suffering in our society but is rarely mentioned.
I used to be a child protection social worker. The whole system is fraught with problems.
Under staffed. I was supposed to carry a maximum of 16 cases, I never had less than 48!
All cases are complex. It was rare for a child to name their abuser or even acknowledge that they were being abused.
Child sex abuse perpetrated by a parent. I had one case where the father had sexually abused 7 of his children. The mother did not believe this until he confessed to her
She talks about the background of JPs but a social worker's background can be crucial too. Families struggling do not want a social worker arriving in a flash car or speaking "down" to them.
Children in care. Many schools refuse to accept these youngsters because they might be "disruptive" which can impact a school's rating.
After 12 years of this work I was burnt out and had to retire through I'll health
This interview is Novara's Downstream at its best: An in depth discussion on a particular subject with a specialist in the field.
Very interesting and insightful.
I work in early intervention for the LA. Cuts to wellbeing and safeguarding services are ongoing. Funding grants are being cut (because the pandemic is over now. More complex cases are being passed down to lower levels, so dont even reach statutory services. We are support workers/advisors, not social workers and get families struggling with finances and benefits, housing, homelessness disability, mental health, antisocial behaviour, DV, criminality, school avoidance, bullying, young carers, parenting, childcare, family breakdown, child contact, SGO, legal. Lots of these cases wouldn't arise if there was proper funding for CAMHS, NDP, Youth Services, Housing, Education etc. In many cases its like sending someone the the pharmacy with a broken leg.
So glad this is being covered.
Thank you both so much for this outstanding interview.
This interview has been great for me. Sometimes I think I hate my job and feel hard done by. Hearing what conditions these social workers have been working under gives a lot of perspective.
Marvellous piece of journalism. As a teacher, this topic is close to my heart, and I leave this video more ready to do my job than I was before I watched it. What more could one ask?
You know Aaron is serious when he busts out the navy jacket.
Excellent downstream dealing with important issues that need to be talked about. Practicalities are always interesting.
Most single mothers have been married and are separated or divorced - it hasn’t been a choice to raise children as a single parent outside a family unit.
This is a very good interview tackling issues rarely publicly addressed.
Thank you.
How do you know it wasn't a choice to be a single parent? Or are all single mothers forced to become separated or divorced against their wishes? As most divorces are, by some margin instigated by women, aren't they indeed able to have a choice?
Novara Media, I loved this video so much, I had to hit the like button!
Amazing interview!!!
Excellent conversation.
I always hated the idea of boarding school; it just baffled me why anybody would want to send the kids away when we have perfectly good state schools that can produce straight A students.
Hello from Poland.
So good
Very interesting and great question Aaron xx
Blame the war and western world for all that
Which war? We're promoting so many .....
Free the world from Psychopaths!
As a translator in public services, I see some child social workers similar to traffic wardens
Translator?
Social workers are bloody useless
I worked as a youth worker for about ten years and my thoughts on child protection would be that the people taking the training seriously are the ones to watch because on a basic level you should know what "protecting" a child means !!
Sounds like working in the education system. 😢
I learned Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) a long time ago and they discuss austerity.
I’m sad , even though I don’t totally subscribe to it as a separate theory, has been swept under the rug as non-functional. It was never in place, anyway.
It's a method not a theory, mis-named @@Ocinneade345
@Ocinneade345 it's an explanatory framework that works well. It's definitely making inroads in the US.
@@Ocinneade345MMT is a factual description of the monetary system we already have in the US.
It's not something you "put in place."
You display your total lack of knowledge about what MMT is with your reply.
@@zakpullen8113I don't know what you mean by "making inroads" in the US, because it's an empirical description of the monetary system that is in place.
Perhaps you mean that the concept of studying the actual process is becoming more accepted in the US?
Thanks for the support, anyway!
Not just children left open to being abused!
Ok I like her - drug banter worried me a bit but she is right about schools they are designed to torture kids…. Oh ok.
“I’m not Peter Hitchens” - come now, Aaron, we’ve all seen the pictures
😂
Why did this video do not so great numbers? Sincerely a bit sad about that.
I notice it's never been recommended to me I found it on the NM page. Was it algorithm suppressed for whatever reason?
Mothers in Arms
🤠💜
Give the power back to parents.
Power to do what?
People, stop having kids, what tf is wrong with you?
I say fuck that too 🙂
The safety of Britain’s children falls daily by the dinghy load.
It’s a losing battle from the get-go. Welfare is just a way to appease the poor from uprising
And so......??
@TuSimple 🤝 @shell