G'Day All
Eyesinthesky What about DoCS taking a child on the allegation of Bashed & starved admit in Court they never believed that, place a child with the very people that made this extreme allegation(especially against an ex main stream prisoner) with the very woman who the mother of the child is already recieving Mental health assistance because of the trauma that she faced as a child at the hands of the very woman that now has mine & her child.
Through out all this I am totally alienated from my son the only access that I did get was when the court had specific orders on the "carers" as they continually refused to abide by undertakings yet this has gone on for 12 years
When criminal actions have taken place .
Contact me on graysond49@yahoo.com and I will e-mail you the attachments that prove beyond reasonable doubt that this has taken place
Missma Attachment and Loss by Bowlby is a very good place to start & anyone that wants to talk on abuse & its overflow should read it, then people may understand why abuse is still going on.
Thanks all have a great life from Dave

Linkages: You hit the nail on the head Piped Piper.

“The sad truth is that virtually nobody lobbies governments to defend the interests of the most abused and neglected children in the community. However, plenty of lobbying occurs in the interests of public sector social workers and the NGO sector.”

As PM Mr Rudd said himself a few weeks ago, there is "something absent in the culture of the service in Australia."

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26021781-12377,00.html

and,

'a wide-ranging review of the public service will focus on how to improve the quality of staff'.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/03/2676072.htm?section=australia

I suggest it is a whole cultural change required. The burden must be shared.The indifference within the services is building to unbearable levels. The evidence of change needs to be seen in the way support "service" deals with everyday challenges where the linkages that ought to be present are infact wide-as-wide-gaps. There are no advocates here. Too many citizens are told there is nothing for them, that they DO NOT fit into "THE BOX", hence they are overlooked, their life-quality and skill, capacity and value is being lost.... too many fall further through the cracks .... many ... under the mindset of accumlative pressures, resort to a pathway of ill-health and or or crime.

Crime Prevention needs to be seen as a 'will' connected and intergrated as a reform through economics and health. AIM: To resolve issues occuring [often a "whole" perspective] for individuals, families communities, by doing more to connect the life-quality elements before and bove the levels of crisis.

I quote "social inclusive" policies as I quote the need for ALL to apply the Brisbane 2005 declaration on community engagement. When will these policies become something from the top down, within service departments, which include also the culture of NGO's.

http://www.getinvolved.qld.gov.au/engagement/initiatives/ic-engaging-comm/brisbane-declaration/brisbane-declaration.html

LINKAGES:

We need more advocates in Australia.

We need greater understanding between advocates and services.

We need services to share the burden and network at least half the load.

http://www.miacat.com/

Miacat
Take notice of my posts the ALP don't give a damn.
Quote "Any nation that does not care for and protect ALL of its children does not deserve to be called a nation" Nelson Mandela.
The word ALL is total without exception fully inclusive NOT All except this one or that one.
The ALP has as a Federal Member & Minister the Person that at the time(1997) had a reciept from the Attorney-Generals Library to prove that I was at least 550klms from the town that I was supposed to be in.
Nothing done except my child traumatized to the max no education couldn't wipe his bottom at 61/2years of age so who wiped his bottom at school etc etc etc ABUSE.
To take or remove a mans child without lawful consent is abduction the placing of any condition for the return of such child becomes KIDNAP which has no statute of limitation
The deliberate placing of evidence before the Court that you know to be false is PERJURY
Perjury carries the same penalty as the crime in which it is committed. Kidnap carries maximum (LIFE IMPRISONMENT)
In 2008 the PM's office contacted the ALP Minister in NSW to have something done all the Minister proved is that he cannot read as he cannot read the difference between Care, Custody & Guardianship you only have to read the ACT.
All that think that this is bull contact me direct & I will e-mail you the evidence.
graysond49@yahoo.com
Thanks All have a great life from Dave
PS My son's name means Justice & Equality for ALL.

I like your thinking OUG and had a think about what you are saying.

Microchip all children, have GPS capability, microchip unsafe adults, have an alert if one is too close to the other.

We need much better monitoring of NGO foster parents – no more only listening to the NGO workers who state the kids are fine. Anyone’s whose income depends on keeping children in certain homes does not have the level of objectivity needed to see anything clearly.

DoCS have got to start making the state wards a priority like they never have before, practices have to be put in place where someone’s say so that a child is “settled” “fine” “okay” is not acceptable as proof. I imagine many parents would do a lot better in an effort to reclaim their children if they were not living in constant fear for their children in a system that appears to not provide care or protection.

Miacat I’m going to read your message a few more times and look at the links you’ve posted. Right now I’m a little confused with what you mean but I’m guessing that has more to do with my comprehension than what you posted.

Hey Missma, word limits get in my way a lot – especially when trying to be clear. I guess our focus is at different levels, you sound like you are concerned with the issues around how children do end up abused while I’m more about the kids in care.

This is the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff and the rail at the top. We need both aye.

My experience is that the low socioeconomic households are where all the foster children come from and it is where I’d place the most help. Low income seems to create boredom, drug abuses, alcohol problems, depression and anger.

I don't pretend to know the answers to all these child protection issues, however I do believe the author when he stated"...the most vocal and influential lobby groups have a vested interest in promoting family preservation-focused child protection policies. The policies are designed to keep at-risk children with dysfunctional families so that taxpayer funded support services can be provided."

There are many children out there who remain neglected and abused because they have been left with their abusive families rather than removing them from the situation.
I believe all the recent drama following the 'stolen generation' problems have caused too much political correctness in not removing these at risk children.

At the risk of upsetting some Indigenous Australians and their supporters who suffered in that they had been 'stolen' from their parents, there is a whole new generation of neglected kids living a nightmare at home.

Ironically, it was some members of the stolen generation and/or their children who received good educations and upbringings after being removed from their own family, that have gone on to become leaders in their communities as well as becoming politicians out there trying to further the plight of indigenous people.

If children are shown to be neglected or abused in their current environment, then they should be removed until that place becomes safe again, or not returned at all.
This should be the same result for all, no matter what race or creed they are.

Careful Jerry you're starting to sound like one of them lefty dogs (spit).

PP What can I say? when you're correct you're correct we need both the rail and the ambulance well spoke you.

There are two small problems, ( Jerry I'll do the right wing role for you) who and how are we going to pay for the indisputably NEED army....psst Jerry that should be your lot's job instead of the usual ideologically obsolete bumf.

The suggested big brother approach is unacceptable to me (shock horror H) I can't help being a bit cliche here " a gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure" and its cheaper..but oh that might mean a change in the way we do things. Personal and collective responsibility maybe taking a wider perspective.
Nah that's too leftish and it might upset vested commercial/power interests.(sorry H and Jerry it had to come )Damn that really caring and doing something about it bit.
NB H I can be satirical/sarcastic too.
More power to PP for picking up the slack for our collective indifference...we talk write papers but what do we really do?

Solutions Jerry solutions. Any thinking person knows the problem (even H).