Lockdowns have caused a “significant backlog of criminal cases” in Scotland, according to the country’s Courts and Tribunals Service. The Telegraph has the story.
The backlog in Scotland’s court cases due to Covid will not be cleared until 2025, justice system chiefs announced on Friday.
There is now a “significant backlog of criminal cases”, according to the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS), and cases are taking longer to come to trial while the number of people held on remand has increased.
This creates “downstream impacts” on community justice services and prisons, they warned.
The SCTS has announced plans to expand remote jury centres and create additional courts from this September as part of a court recovery programme to deal with the backlog.
New jury trials were put on hold for several months last year due to the virus outbreak.
There will also be four additional High Courts, two additional Sheriff Courts for solemn cases and up to 10 more Sheriff Courts for summary cases.
With these extra resources, the SCTS said it predicts the backlog of High Court and Sheriff solemn cases will be cleared by 2025, and summary trial backlogs will be dealt with by 2024.
The picture isn’t much more positive in England and Wales. In January, four criminal justice watchdogs said that they had “grave concerns” about the impact of court backlogs caused by lockdowns. They highlighted that some crimes committed in 2020 will not go before a jury until 2022. The number of outstanding cases for Crown Courts increased by almost 10,000 between March and December 2020.
The report on the Scottish court backlog is well worth reading in full.
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Totally agree, so many children have been “labelled” especially in the last 10/20 years, when the majority are just little brats whose parents realise they can get money for this, personally I think it is appalling that you would ruin your childs live like this. Many grow up to do nothing with their lives, because they have consistantly been told they cannot, in the case of my godson, at 26, this is true, and then the flip side is, genuine one’s sometimes take years to be diagnosed!!.
I have 2 main thought on this,
1 a daughter of someone my partner used to work with (single mum of 3) was around 12 and mum was trying to get her diagnosed with ADHD/autism because she “couldn’t wait to drug her” to stop her playing up. I’m no expert and only met her a couple of times but it seemed more like she needed some decent parenting than drugs…
2 a YouTuber DC European lost his job for saying on a podcast that we need to be careful with all this labels and maybe not everyone is on the spectrum and when they get older (if they wanted) these diagnosis would stop them joining the forces for example… He admitted (much like the example above) he didn’t try at school but though attitude and laziness rather than a medical issue but today he’d be diagnosed…
If you start telling people (especially children) that there’s something “wrong with them” (or “they’re in the wrong body”) they’re going to start to believe it and act accordingly…
It’s not compassion if one is compelled to pay, nor is it compassionate to compel others to pay.
Greed is the desire to take the property of others for one’s own use.
It is easy to be compassionate when spending other people’s money, taken using the coercive powers of the State.
Once over, compassion was the remit of charities, volunteers, philanthropists, religious orders, until the Labour Government just after the war nationalised compassion and charity along with most else.
Everyone has a sob story. If you truly want to help, use your own money and resources.
Time to end the national charity called the welfare state and its partner in crime the NHS.
Wasn’t the nationalisation of hospitals (mostly owned by mostly Christian charities) one of the biggest thefts ever?
And in a country where the Holy Spirit brought healing, for centuries, we now have a health service where it is banned.
As the author notes, kids with a TA, tend to do slightly worse academically, than kids without one.
In the same way that Carl Heneghan & Tom Jefferson have done such a brilliant job exposing the absence of evidence for so many medical interventions, we need similarly credentialled people to illustrate that the emperors of the ‘educational’ profession are also naked.
There appears to be much delusional knowledge, in climate science as well as in Medicine, but I think part of the problem is the eagerness to turn the possible into the compulsory. Kids with a TA, have particular symptoms, but having those symptoms doesn’t necessarily mean they have TA. Similarly, you can say the same with the weather. And then it becomes an epidemic.
All it needs is Experience, but who needs that any more? Certainly not experts, like those Arts and Humanities graduates advising in STEM disciplines.
Bad parenting, partly the result of society’s general disorder and moral degeneraion, are medicalised and responsibility thus evaded – shifted onto the State. Which is another symptom of the decay.
Has no one considered the long-term damage to self-esteem and self-reliance consequent on a child’s being habituated to think of himself as having ‘special needs’, someone deficient in intellect and personality? ‘Jake’ is basically the same story as ‘Jane’ – the case study highlighted by Mary Gileece in relation to PIP and the benefits culture 10 day ago.
I fear society’s sickness is now terminal.
My parents had a hard time handling me when I was a teenager. So they had me take an IQ test and this Autism Test. I had to take the IQ test twice because I scored around 130 both times. Yet I was declared autistic from the other test. The school pysch said I was a high level functioning autistic. So my parents decided they would leave me alone mostly(I was 16 at the time), yet they doubted I would graduate from high school. My father was an authoritarian and it grated me.
The rigid (mostly academic) education system spits out many at 18 with little chance to progress, educationally. Most Legacy Media effort is focused on Entertainment, Celebrity, and Misinformation, so those most in need of guidance, lack it the most. It’s usually the case that, in a revolution, it’s the needy that suffer most.
Today’s Daily Telegraph:
‘Taxpayers have spent £30 billion on an equality drive that has failed to boost the grades of the poorest children, a damning new study has found.’
SEND, PIP, pupil premiums – just one sad tale of madness. Successive governments themselves ought to have been put in special measures.
It’s perfectly obvious, far too many children are given a SEND label. A lot of them probably then play on their diagnosis to misbehave or otherwise get away with goodness knows what. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s/on the autistic spectrum as an adult, when I was at school it wasn’t well known about. Undoubtedly today I would have been labelled SEND and got all sorts of costly support. Without a label I got on with things and got 5 A’s at GCSE and and A and B at A level. With they way grades have been devalued I’m sure that if I sat the exams this year I’d get 8 or 9 A or A* at GCSE and 2 A’s plus a B at A level.
“… spending nearly doubling from £4 billion to £10.8 billion …”
It looks like it more than doubled.
Jake’s father was absent (we aren’t told from what age). I would imagine his mother was working since he was assessed in a private clinic, which wouldn’t be cheap. I would therefore conclude that his “dicking around” was a consequence of restricted parental involvement and discipline from a young age. “Dicking around” was attention seeking and he certainly got some attention when he made himself a big enough nuisance.
I was a single mother. My ex left the family home when my 2 sons were both pre-schoolers so I know how hard it is to raise boys on your own, work and do all the practical work to run the house. When one parent leaves, a young child needs more attention from the remaining parent – not less. Since that’s rarely possible, the solution is to rope in other family members, particularly grandparents, but aunts/uncles or God Parents (if they exist) can make a huge contribution.
If you give someone a label, they perform according to the label. Label someone “clever” and they will demonstrate their intelligence. Label them “kind” and they will want to prove that the label is justified.
Thousands of children have been given negative labels so of course they’re behaving in the manner their label requires of them. But the psychologists, teachers, teaching assistants etc whose income relies on a flow of “Special Needs” children are going to resist the dismantling of the system they rely on.
And so will the parents who want an easy answer to their child’s behaviour and to pass responsibility for dealing with it to other people.
Your last but one paragraph makes so much sense. There is money in this game for the psychologists etc, much like the Human Rights lawyers and illegals. And yes, there is money to be made by parents eager to get their child “labelled” so that they can get on the benefits merry-go-round. We are all paying for this.
Working together can be so productive, yet collectivism can remove the immediate need for responsibility. Giving that responsibility to others empowers them to have control over you. And from the ensuing frustrations, unpleasant political structures form.
It’s why those spells are so dangerous. I’m thinking of the 1940s nationalisations, to ensure Britain has prosperous heavy industries, the NHS ‘taking care of us, from cradle to grave’, automatically getting a council house, or the Education Sausage Machine, where the goal is get a degree. What subject, you ask. It doesn’t matter. It can be anything, as long as it is a degree.
And don’t forget to buy a heat-pump! And, the best of all, the BBC, so you don’t have to worry about the source of your News. It makes life so easy. 🙂
Normal, boyish behaviour has been labelled by the over feminised school establishment as ‘bad’.
Boys should only be taught by men and should have more physical activity and challenging tasks put into their educational programme.
Fully agree!
To add to this is the fact that we expect all
children to learn a certain way (sitting down, sitting still).
And we don’t expect people to take their own responsibilities, we expect the system to solve it all.