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How was this allowed to happen ??
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Cumbrian Caz~**~ | Report | 16 Jan 2007 17:26 |
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In my experience kris social services bother about situations where there isnt a problem but miss when there really is one, Caz xxx |
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Kris | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:46 |
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Ann, I am sure that there are much more stringent safeguards in place today than there were - the same as most things really. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:43 |
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In the 70s (don't know about the 80s), there was not the vigilance of social workers that there is now. I used to foster and rarely saw a social worker between handing over the child and collecting them. (I fostered short term). In fact we had one baby for 6 months instead of 6 weeks, and they only came and got him to put him in more permanent carre when we insisted, they were happy just to leave him with us. Ann Glos |
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Janet in Yorkshire | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:32 |
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I HOPE it was that the girls were too frightened to say at the time, rather than a case of no-one listening to them, or a change of social worker and something being missed in the paperwork. Sounds like another case of people becoming victims because they are vulnerable to start with. Jay |
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Kris | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:28 |
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Following on from another thread - another example of the courts and Social Services acting in the child's best interests?? |
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Catherine from Manchester | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:26 |
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Disgusting- catherine xx |
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Lady Cutie | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:25 |
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Hi Kris, i always thought the local authority would visit every now and then . those poor children , i hope their locked up and the key thrown away. hazelx |
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Kris | Report | 16 Jan 2007 16:19 |
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A foster carer who was accused of beating girls she looked after in the 1970s and 1980s has been found guilty of six counts of abuse. Elizabeth Roe, 64, of Hall Road, Norwich, who cared for about 280 children, denied cruelty charges on six different girls under the age of 16. Roe will be sentenced in February along with husband Walter Roe, 63, who admits four offences of indecent assault. The victims said she used sticks, a broom and a slipper to beat them. The court heard a catalogue of abuse included Roe keeping the children short of food, making them do the housework, regularly beating them and verbally humiliating them. The alleged victims are now adults and only recently came forward to make complaints against Mrs Roe, who had been approved by the then local authority Norwich County Borough Council |
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