Children and young people who perpetrate "serious violence" can rest easy that, rather than police involvement, they can look forward to "mentoring or therapeutic support". Such advice comes courtesy of the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance, now live, in readiness for the start of schools this September.
Published against a rising tide of youth violence, the latest guidance appears as yet another attempt to hide criminal activity beneath the invisibility cloak of 'safeguarding'. If we crane our necks back far enough, we can find Beothius responsible for the current approach to criminal activity amongst young people. In the Consolations of Philosophy he wrote:
Just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.
This generous hearted approach has permeated attitudes to criminal behaviour in the under-18s throughout the education, social work and judicial systems.
The latest safeguarding guidance states:
Serious violence is a continuing safeguarding concern. It may involve physical assault, carrying, threatening with, or using weapons, often in the context of peer conflict or bullying, and it can also be associated with criminal exploitation. Staff should report any concerns about a child carrying or using a weapon (or expressing intent to do so) to the designated
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Does anyone remember what the word for safeguarding used to be? Common sense? Was that it?
The ‘safeguarding lead’ should not be reporting crimes on the basis of ‘as required’ if that means at the safeguarding lead’s discretion. It should be, when they happen.
Crimes are reported to the police and adjudicated by the CPS.
I am not saying that the full force of the law should be applied each time an offence has been committed, but an independent outside opinion should be routine.
What if other organisations decided to ignore the law, – “a bit of insider trading”, “we’ll deal with it in house”, – “a few excess deaths in the hospital”, “we’ll deal with it in house”.
Somehow I doubt whether a teacher or any other member of staff would be given the same leeway if their actions or communications were not illegal but as the saying goes ‘ may cause offence ‘.
1 Does The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) influence the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC)?
2 Does the NSPCC influence Family Courts, either through general guidance or through intervening on specific cases?
3 Does the NSPCC influence Local Authority Social services, either through campaigning or through specific cases?
4 Has the NSPCC, under guise of “protecting” children become an activist, feminist, anti-male, anti-father, anti-family, anti-British group over recent decades?
5 Does the NSPCC have statutory powers to intervene?
6 Does the NSPCC create and maintain a series of Mencken Imaginary Hobgoblins such as Satanic Ritual Abuse and physical punishment?
7 Does the NSPCC do deals with the BBC to maintain these scares to obtain funds?
Notice the Staged Photographic Propaganda chosen to illustrate this article:
Working Class White Boys getting into fisticuffs, as all men have since the beginning of time, while Working Class White Girls look on disapprovingly, and Noble Ethnic African Boy tries to stop the “violence”. Notice that both White Boys are shown clutching bottles of alcohol for extra propaganda messaging.
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This is more truthful:
Horror as migrants parade around baby dolphin before ‘beating it to death’
‘Horrible violence’ – 1 security guard murdered and 2 police officers wounded after dozens of armed gang members open fire in quiet Dutch village
‘They did not speak French’ – French teen Constant finally speaks out after being kidnapped, robbed, and beaten into a 6-day coma
Well spotted
Poor little britian. The serfs ensconced in maintaining their status “working class boys” working class girls”
This is exactly what happens when you stop believing in good and evil.
children are not badly controlled robots; they have agency.
if your past history was really responsible for your criminal behaviour, half the population at least would be committing vile and antisocial acts.
They have agency? What on earth does that mean 😂
Look it up.
Return to old testament values
Reputation management has probably got something to do with this. The school does not want to be seen as a place where criminal activity is reported, even though such activity has taken place. This is true of many organizations, but the public sector more than most – just look at “our NHS” during Covid where reciting how glorious the NHS is was more important than having a coherent plan.
Reputation mgmt? What on e arch does that mean😂
Which groups are over-represented in the serious violence stakes?
This is a classic example of female centric policymaking. Women always want to avoid physical trouble ao they try to emote and emotioneer the problem away.
Bring back strong men and hard punishment.