Child Abuse: The Big Paper Cover Up

I read Exaro News about the #VIPaedophiles investigation they are reporting and I listen to LBC when they do interviews with Politicians about the climate way back when kids from children's homes were "residuals" is the word I think I remember hearing.

I wonder about these important politicians and Lords doing their important jobs from some of the best schools in the country, educated to the highest standard, that someone didn't teach them the basics. The value of human life, dignity, honour, duty, integrity....etc. All that money went into educating them and they didn't even learn the important stuff.

I'm being sarcastic as they clearly knew right from wrong and even if you can see that it was somehow 'acceptable' to treat the lives of these children as your own personal objects to do with as you please without consequence, you would expect that today 2015, the climate would be much improved what with our enlightenment.

I have been out from the care system for four and a half years and I can't see so much difference from what I'm reading in the news and what I knew of some of the kids I lived with over a ten + year period.

The only thing that seems like it has changed are the new and improved policies that keep coming from the suits to safeguard vulnerable children. The reality of these policies issued to over-stretched, under-resourced agencies, is that targets are introduced to keep records of actions taken. Ten minute chat in some corridor TICK....supervision completed. Five minute chat on the phone "Everything alright love?" TICK....counselling session complete. If the paperwork says it happened, it happened.
It doesn't prevent sick people from having access to kids in care.

It's like staff don't really want to hear anything about their colleagues because then they would actually have to make a report and it seemed to me, a lot of staff try to avoid that because it makes their own life more difficult and their own job insecure.

Do the agencies involved have concerns about some of these people looking after kids? Sure, I can't see how they couldn't have. Some workers and agency staff are friends and so turn their eye blind, some overseers recognise it's not a popular job, no one really wants to look after a bunch of kids who thieve their belongings, abscond, fight with staff and verbally abuse them most days, so the few workers they have, they want to keep.

The kids seem no safer in care today than they were way back when. But as long as we have policies and ticked off paperwork that says they are, the suits are covered.
 
The big paper cover up.