Children’s Commissioner and Dominic Raab Accuse Lockdown of Weakening Protections for Vulnerable Children
The Justice Secretary has said that school closures during lockdown had put vulnerable and neglected children at a greater risk of harm and abuse. In turn, Dame Rachel de Souza, the current Children’s Commissioner for England, concluded that the system put in place to protect six year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, who was murdered by his step-mother, was further weakened by the Government’s Covid restrictions, whereas her predecessor, Anne Longfield, mentioned that “very vulnerable children have continued to slip from view” over the course of the pandemic. The Times has the story.
Dame Rachel de Souza said that the voices of children must be listened to following the murder of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.
Arthur was killed in June last year after Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes had submitted him to a “campaign of cruelty” that amounted to torture at their home in Shirley, Solihull. The boy was isolated, abused and forced to eat salt-laced meals before dying from an “unsurvivable brain injury” after being beaten by Tustin.
Tustin was jailed for life at Coventry crown court with a minimum term of 29 years last week for abusing, poisoning and murdering Arthur while his father was jailed for 21 years for manslaughter and abuse. The judge described the case as “one of the most distressing and disturbing” he had experienced.
An independent serious case review is under way into the actions of Solihull council social workers who found “no safeguarding concerns” after visiting Arthur two months before he was killed. Social workers received at least three warnings from family members and teachers.
As the Government confirmed that it would be holding a national review to protect other children, de Souza, the Commissioner for England, said that more had to be done to support social workers to spot similar cases, but the coronavirus lockdown had weakened the system.
She told BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show: “The life of a child is of inestimable value and his voice was not heard and that’s where we need to start.
“Obviously, there’s a serious case review under way and we need to see what that says but we must take decisive action and now.” She said Arthur was not a baby and had raised his concerns but “the system did not hear him”.
“We must listen to the voices of children and, secondly, these reviews and national reviews… tend to make the same recommendations. It’s not a matter of system recommendations, it’s a matter of delivery.”
The national Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel will lead the review and provide additional support to Solihull Safeguarding Children Partnership to “upgrade” the existing local review that was launched shortly after Arthur’s death.
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So, does this mean Raab is against further lockdowns? Somehow, I doubt it.
I suppose the only slight good thing in this wholly dreadful business is that a few people have resiled from parroting the tiresome and false litany of “It’s the Pandemic Wot Done It”, and put some blame where it belongs viz. Government-mandated lockdowns.
Whether Johnson’s bondservants, which now seem to include most of the Opposition, will go against lockdowns by act and not just words is something that won’t happen.
Once again, this sad event was entirely predictable not only from initial gut based reactions to the likelihood of unstable characters from ‘deprived’ households taking it out on the children when cooped up in dismal social situations with not even a playground to let off steam.
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Child abuse head trauma London hospital March April 2020
Brings up a BMJ report (Great Ormond street hospital*) about the 1,500% increase in such injuries, although no immediate deaths, in the first month of lockdown alone. As summer dragged in it can only have got worse.
It’s no use blaming lockdown alone, another report told of only 10% of the vulnerable children entitled to the schooling which WAS available being identified by social workers and place in those schools which again would have added to some fress air in a stressed environment.
*This report gathered a couple of days interest from the press before it move on to ‘fun and games playing workbound rush hour in and about the house and garden’.
If the government had promoted exercise – and I don’t mean at “gymnasia” – and if it had jammed the mobile phone signal for say 4 hours each day, one might have been able to take it slightly more seriously when it spoke of “public health”.
At some point Johnson’s leadership will be challenged and candidates for the job will need to differentiate themselves somehow. Questioning the wisdom of lockdown is one way of doing that, although God knows there are plenty of other areas where the government is failing. And no doubt some candidates would say that we didn’t lockdown hard enough and will campaign on vaccine passports etc., This is all probably some way away in time, so hope against hope “Covid” won’t be an in issue by then.
I don’t mean to be rude, but you are deluding yourself.
As for hoping Covid won’t be an issue.. Sorry, you need to realise, Johnson is owned, he’s doing what he’s told. If he’s replaced, another puppet will be put in his place, just like the musical chairs being played in the Austrian Government..
“At some point Johnson’s leadership will be challenged and candidates for the job will need to differentiate themselves somehow.” That could happen, but there are other possible scenarios. 1. Johnson could fall in a scandal …Drugs (if Matthew Hancock can be filmed in Whitehall without his knowledge, so can Johnson). …Non-disclosure agreements forced on women (Danielle Fleet for example). …Financial crime. …”What he knew when” regarding the appointment or reappointment of crooks to his cabinet (Patel, Rees-Mogg, Javid, Sunak, etc.). (Note that there are still at least some figures in SIS and the US State Department who are unlikely to want Johnson to stay in office if war breaks out with Russia.) 2. Johnson could simply resign one fine morning in order to avoid a scandal, or because he has been given his cards (cf. Harold Wilson), …allowing “sources close to him” to say it’s all about his health and he told the monarch last Christmas, blah blah, and he soldiered on because he is so brave, but oh, Peppa Pig, blah blah. (Although admittedly an obese 57yo drunkard and heavy abuser of cocaine who is said to have come down from 17.5 stone to 16.5 stone – if this… Read more »
I thought Harold Wilson was persecuted by ‘rogue elements’ in the security services? Also he was developing dementia by the time he decided to call it a day.
But I agree, PMs who resign out of nowhere & before they’re pushed usually get a good press from the historians.
Blimey, I think we might have bigger problems to worry about if war breaks out with Russia (unless it’s a contained proxy).
Bar an election bozo will only leave if he gets bored or somehow filthy lucre lures him away.
The only difference between leadership hopefuls will be the degree of ‘firmness’ they promise to implement lockdown and vaxxing with.
I suppose the not the conservative party membership will be presented with a choice of two non-conservatives again (if they still have a vote on it). Maybe right wing people should try a bit of entryism (like with Corbyn in Labour)?
Nope, it’s a bit like Labour’s admission that they created mass immigration into the UK to “rub the right’s nose in diversity” (although the reason was a whole lot more sinister).
It’s acknowledgement of the crime they’re committing on the UK public while laughing about it.
By the 18th of this month, we will have learnt what the UK regime have in stall for us, and I don’t think it’s going to be pleasant. Pay close attention to the fact they are on the brink of removing our right to protest as well.
When you say Labour created mass immigration, are you talking about the 1945-51 period, which is to say 70+ years ago? I’ve never heard anyone say that the aim of that policy was to create “diversity” or to spite the right. Perhaps they said it 60 or 70 years after the fact.
After 1951, Labour weren’t re-elected until 1964, and between then and now the big take-off of immigration to Britain happened under Tory PM Margaret Thatcher, with the rise continuing under Labour PM Tony Blair and all prime ministers since.
The graph clearly shows that the big increase in immigration was after 1997.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/6418456/Labour-wanted-mass-immigration-to-make-UK-more-multicultural-says-former-adviser.html
The elite created that because India mattered to them. Or so I heard. The British public never voted for it.
This will be the same Raab on who’s watch 000s of Afghan people were blocked from seeking sanctuary in the UK?? Hypocrite of the first order and the reason why we have a useless Tory MP. Grrr.
The logic will of course not be that the madness of the last 20 months is to blame but that both the lack of vaccine passports and the fact that kids aren’t kept permanently masked at school where teachers and the state can keep them “safe” are to blame.
Exactly. This is just another case of being told how terrible things can be when the government isn’t running our lives.
Of course, no mention of the child abuse that the government has inflicted on ALL children with their covid terror campaign, the forced masking, the coerced jabs without informed consent.
I would caution that single events, however vile, never make good policy once politicians are involved
The existing ‘policy’ already called for rather more protection than this unfortunate child received.
No doubt, ‘lessons have been learned’, as in all the preceding avoidable cases of child murder.
Don’t get caught and demand more taxpayer’s cash are the only lessons learned
Come on Matt Hancock, you didn’t do to bad out of it
Avoidable how?
Are you one of those people that thinks that the world can be cleaned of all awfulness?
If they were really interested in improving things, they would sort out the corrupt family courts and the self-serving social services. The late, great Christopher Booker covered all this for years.
Wow. Big surprise!
And it was also, I recall, a bad plan to give police officers (especially one nicknamed “The Rapist”), powers to impose £10,000 fixed penalties for infringements of our Beloved Leaders’ masterplan for population control.
Who would have thought it?
Will the said ‘Beloved Leaders’ ever be asked if they regret their rampant cruelty?
Held to account?
Oh! I thought not.
As the fearless “Opposition” leaders have only ever shown an interest in ramping up cruelty and incompetence even higher, no point in asking them.
I’m sure the GB Communist Party Central Committee stalwart “Professor” Susan Michie (nicknamed “Stalin’s Nanny”) who is the BBC’s go-to commenter and Sage’s ‘Behaviour nudging’ supremo will consider Arthur’s death another little star to wear on her hat.
Interesting that Ben Raymond (a chief-nutter from super-nutter group National Action) has just been handed an 8 year stint in jail for being a member of a proscribed nutter’s organisation, whilst Michie is lionised.
Eight years? Gosh. No evidence he ever actually DID anything naughty. Just thought about it. As nutters do.
Strange times.
Whilst all socialists are dangerous I wouldn’t see jailing them all as proportionate.
What would that make us?
probably naive.
we have been too soft with them For 70 years we have allowed them to rewrite history to turn themselves into the good guys, and look where we are now.
“Susan Michie (nicknamed “Stalin’s Nanny”) who is the BBC’s go-to commenter and Sage’s ‘Behaviour nudging’ supremo”
Susan Michie is my go-to commenter when I need to lose a hard on very quickly
That’s brought a smirk to my face.
And I wonder who legislated for lockdowns?
What “solution” might this horrific death be used to bring about by those wise people in government? That the state can keep children safe by bar coding them?
And why is Dominic Raab only now stating that vulnerable children are put at greater risk by lockdown? Plenty of people were making this very obvious point in writing to their MPs in the spring of 2020. A crystal ball was not necessary.
He is sense a change in mood towards lockdowns and is starting to position himself early as an opponent?
Standing against the abuse of children is a very safe position.
I suppose we should not forget to tip our hats to the police who threatened the boy’s relatives with consequences should they break lockdown rules in an effort to save his life.
Well done, boys and girls. Take a bow!
If it saves one
lifepolice pensionRaab is ignoring the gigantic elephant in the room; government actions since the beginning of 2020 have been weakening protections for everybody everywhere. Was the so-called pandemic pre-planned as well?
The Center for Health Security partnered with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to host a coronavirus pandemic exercise called Event 201 in October 2019, six weeks before the first case of symptom onset of COVID-19.
“Fact Checking The Fact Checkers – Event 201”
http://participator.online/articles/2021/12/fact_checking_the_fact_checkers_event_201_20211206.php
Thank you for posting.
Still need to vaccinate them to protect other people. So I guess other peoples values are even more inestimable.
“The life od a child is of inestimable value”
One of those phrases that mean nothing and simply serve to grandstand, manipulate and project virtue.
Let’s see if she has the guts to come out and argue against jabbing kids who face zero danger from covid. Are their lives of inestimable value too? Or are they a price worth paying for keeping ones job and appearing to be “managing the situation”.
How I have come to despise these useless technocrats.
Not as valuable as the lives of unhealthy old people. Apparently. Women and children first – if only.
I’ve reached the point where I no longer believe anything politicians say anymore and take everything they say with a pinch of salt – they say one and then do another – they claim lockdowns and restrictions are damaging society and then they will vote for further lockdowns and restrictions – they’ll say masks make no difference to transmission then vote for mandatory masks in shops – they’ll say that we all have to live this virus and then they introduce measures that instill fear and panic in the public (ie mask mandates).
There are no longer politicians of any real political convictions anymore – what we have are just a bunch of self-serving careerists who will always put their own interests first.
Politicians lie.
The Pope poops in the woods.
Bears live in the Vatican.
We must all be vigilant that blame for this is is apportioned wisely.
We must also be vigilant that this is not happening to any other children, although I’m afraid it is. Teachers, social workers, doctors and even neighbours should be observant and not afraid to report anything of concern.
We must also be vigilant that the SNP’s ‘Named Person’ scheme is not back on their, or any other government agenda. It’s another means of state control of children and is very dangerous. It would very nicely dovetail with vaccine passports (ID cards) and social credit schemes.
No we mustn’t. “Society” isn’t responsible for a child being abused by his parents. The parents are.
I want no piece of any responsibility for that, thanks very much.
I would suggest brutal punishment for parents who abuse their children after their guilt has been determined after legal due process. That would be the most effective and efficient approach.
Are you saying the police, doctors, social work departments and neighbours etc. should just ignore abused children?
How then do we punish the parents?
NHS Nursing Assistant Speaks Out Double Jabbed Fill Covid Wards
https://www.bitchute.com/video/bqGL6zYM0rVP/
We warned people this would happen. We got shouted down. I’m pretty sure Raab voted for the lockdown so he should carry the can too.
Apparently we’re all conspiracy theorists so best ignored……..
We should all know by now that only “Covid”(of any reason within 28 days) deaths count
This is the type of situation most of us were trying to avoid by shouting loudly about the harms of lockdown. We were told to get back in our boxes or we’d kill people through our reckless thoughtcrime.
The saddest part for me was the police priority for lockdown over the life of a child when the family member called them. I hope they look long and hard at their own culpability.
The social services sector was already badly managed in the ‘good old days’ so not surprising it disintegrated when neglected. Tunnel vision on lockdown as the only possible mitigation has created many more travesties, and the final cost when totted up will show how naive society has been.
One day, the concientious lockdown objectors will be seen as being on the right side of history….
I don’t know the specifics of this case, frankly, I find it to upsetting to delve into. If the police were contacted by the family then heads should roll, very senior ones at that.
All the promises and regrets over Victoria Climbié, all for naught. Whilst I know for certain that many children have been rescued from this type of abuse over the years, I feel fairly certain Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was known about as this abuse appears to have been perpetrated over some time.
the Childrens Commissioner has been very silent on jabbing children
This ghastly inhuman image was casually included in the BBC ‘LIVE’ Omicron news stream with the caption ‘As some schools in the Philippines’ capital of Manila reopen for the first time since Covid began, pupils sit in the classroom behind protective plastic screens’. I do not believe this is a new photo and would put money on it having nothing to do with containing the so-called Omicron variant. They are playing us for absolute fools; the question is why. Now reframe this. The tyrannical restrictions and measures we see right now in the world are US, Aus, Canada, NZ and Eurozone countries, essentially everywhere in the economic orbit of the US. So we get propaganda optics from Asia to suggest that the world is facing a new crisis. I call bullshit. I think we’re in fact witnessing the collapse of several economies right now. The jury’s out on GBP, maybe we’re dodging a bullet for now. But I become more convinced by the day that this is an economic crisis disguised as a public health crisis. I would go as far as predicting that we are going to see the collapse of the Euro and USD this winter. Western governments… Read more »
In the meantime, this strikes no one in the BBC as child abuse…
Adults wouldn’t put up with this for 6 to 8 hours a day.
What a sick, sick society we have become.
Considering the history of the BBC, and the statue of a paedophile outside Broadcasting House, they rather enjoy this type of image.
Could this be a strategy to label future lockdowns as “killer lockdowns”, to be caused by the unstabbed?? Probably.
If you want to feel sane, I finally got around to watching Dr Reiner Fellmich’s videos from September onwards…clearly someone has been jabbing the good Dr with truth serum.
It’s like he’s putting himself forward as world leader….and I would vote for him!
Sad news
another coincidental rare death of a sportsman
https://www.rt.com/sport/542303-stefan-jelovac-basketball-death-aek-athens/
Serbian basketball star, 32, dies weeks after collapsing in training session
Does anybody see what’s happening with these wretched government and establishment people.
They are playing good cop bad cop concerning different situations, messages. The messaging is continually changing on every subject re this $hite show. One person will make a statement then another will contradict it, then the statement will change and be carried by others, and on it goes.
Its just so transparent what they are doing now. Continuous mind f*ckery for maximum confusion, obfuscation. Its absolutely disgusting..
Yes, as you say, the conflicting messages are deliberate in order to confuse people so that they stop trying to work anything out for themselves and simply do as they are told. It’s been working well since March 2020.
Well said.. once you’ve homed in on the methodology being used, its as plain as day..
Yes confusion is one of their main strategies
Had they completed any sort of meaningful risk assessments prior to locking us all up the fact that children would be more open to abuse should have been recognised. Instead they didnt complete any assessments risk, health or economic.
They implemented lockdowns to see if they could.
All members of SAGE, NERVTAG, the nudge unit, government etc and all MPs who voted in favour of lockdowns without viewing appropriate risk assessments have blood on their hands. May they never be forgiven.
You don’t need “an appropriate risk assessment” conducted by the government. You only need an exercise of common sense.
Drug strategy to tackle 300,000 problem users, says PM – BBC News
Does the Pig Dictator know it is an offence to impersonate a Police Officer?
Much as most of us here oppose lockdowns and suss where the rulers are coming from in imposing them, this particular line that “lockdown endangers children because it hides them from view” is a load of crap. It’s a mindf*ck. Children are not “protected” by being “under the view” of the state 24/7.
Having worked in child protection for over twenty years I have to say you’re mostly talking out of your arse. Agreed 24/7 state control does not guarantee safety, but for many, many children school is their safe place and it was taken away from them.
Arthur died because his parent/step parent killed him but they were enabled in doing so by the governments disproportionate response to a so called pandemic and the disgraceful behaviour of the teaching unions and those who follow them.
considering Arthur’s real mother was in jail for killing her partner and then custody was then given to the father (and the step mother who killed him it was a total mess.
The horrible truth might be that the invasive measures needed to prevent another incident like this are worse will cause much more harm, much like locking down did.
Lockdowns cause children to be murdered
Lockdowns are caused by the unjabbed
Ergo, the unjabbed murder children
Get your jab or more children will die
Voila!!
The truth will out.
Hold the line
Preserve the evidence.
Pray for our children.
There will be a reckoning.
Care home in Kent, overwhelmed by staff shortages, gives families just ten hours’ notice of closure.
Is this the tip of the iceberg?
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/dec/06/care-home-in-kent-gives-families-10-hours-notice-of-closure
Livin’ the Covid-zero dream.
Too little too late. We see you.
The only decent thing that Raab could do is kill himself in Arthur’s name.
Absolutely killing me to read any details of this, no matter how light on the act itself. The thought that someone can do such things makes me ill.
National Child Safety Review Board. What a joke! Brought to you by the same criminals who have isolated, masked, swabbed, whipsawed and terrified the children for the last twenty months. And are now insisting they be shot up with a dangerous, and for some, lethal concoction!