Children ‘failed by the system’

THE case of a family of three children said to be the ‘most damaged in Jersey’ is being urgently reviewed by politicians, including new Health and Social Services Minister Anne Pryke.
It has been claimed that the children, whose specialist treatment in the UK the States are being asked to fund, suffered years of sexual abuse and neglect because the authorities failed to take them into care despite being warned that they were at risk.
The review, which is being chaired jointly by Jersey Child Protection Committee chairman Professor June Thoburn and Deputy Medical Officer of Health Dr Susan Turnbull, is now under way in response to allegations of multi-agency failures by the States. It is due to be completed in September.
In a related proposition calling for £700,000 a year to be made available for their specialist treatment in the UK. Deputy Paul Le Claire says of the children of ‘Family X’: ‘They now rank as the most damaged children in Jersey and are in the top tier of all such children in England.’ (from thisisjersey)

Sounds like heads need to roll...

It just gets worse, doesn't it!?! Appalling...................






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Its not just the Children failed by the system, its the whole welfare system, our States are incompetent and failing the public daily

This is exactly the kind of thing that Stuart Syvret was trying to address when he was dumped as Minister for Health and Social Services for criticizing the civil servants and professionals responsible and by so doing causing 'low morale' among staff. God forbid the staff are upset.

Some of us who work for H&SS know the childrens service has been cr*p for years and nothing was done about it. I don't have any faith that anything has changed - I only wish I could be proved wrong, but those responsible for the failures are still in post, still swaggering in the corridors of power seemingly untouchable.

So the answer is to throw more money at the "System" ...and the children will be no better off!